Manishi Srivastava

PhD in Biology 

Academic staff member

Empirical Educational Research

CV and academic career

Manishi Srivastava is an educator from India with a PhD in chronobiology and has expertise in content creation for teachers and students’ conceptual understanding.  She has also been involved in science communication and science education through certain education organizations in India.  At present she is a postdoctoral researcher in the Grütter group, her research interests being psychosocial factors that affect inclusiveness in a classroom.

research interests

My present work is focussed on students' beliefs and reasoning about social inequalities in Nepal and my further interests lie in developing strategies for better social agency of adolescents in India through STEM education.

Conference presentations

  • Grütter, J., Barth, C., Aréchar, A., & Rizzo, M. (2022, June 19 - 23) Children’s evaluations of global, local and interpersonal inequalities: First insights from Nepal and Switzerland. Biennial meeting of the ISSBD, Rhodes, Greece.
  • Barth, C., Grütter, L. (2022, June 9 - 10). The Role of Inclusive Classroom Norms for Children’s Reasoning About Social Exclusion Based on Learning Difficulties [Paper presentation]. 3rd conference on the social inclusion of students with disabilities in general education, Zurich, Switzerland.  Further information
  • Grütter, J., Tschopp, C., Barth, C., & Buholzer, A. (2022, June 9 - 10). The Friendship Project: Promoting Cross-Group Friendships in Heterogenous Classrooms. 3rd conference on the social inclusion of students with disabilities in general education, Zurich, Switzerland. Further information
  • Grütter, J., Barth, C., Tschopp, C., & Buholzer, A.  (2021, November 3 - 7). Teachers’ Emotional Reactions and Reasoning about Social Exclusion based on Learning Difficulties and Hyperactive Behavior [Paper presentation]. 47th Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education (AME).
  • Grütter, J., Barth, C., Tschopp, C., & Buholzer, A. (2021, August 25 - 27). Intergroup perceptions, belonging and friendship in multicultural schools [Paper presentation]. 3rd Cultural Diversity, Migration, and Education conference (CDME), Potsdam, Germany. Further information 
  • Barth, C., Paukstat, V., & Grütter, J. (2021, August 25 - 27). The Role of Supportive Teacher Student Relationships for Social Participation in Ethnically Diverse Classrooms [Paper presentation]. 3rd Cultural Diversity, Migration, and Education conference (CDME), Potsdam, Germany. Further information
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