Devyani is a researcher on policing, human rights and social justice with 17 years of experience in research-based advocacy. Her work has focused on police oversight, accountability, diversity, arrest safeguards, crime reporting and registration, early access to legal aid and policing of vulnerable populations with a focus on crimes against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Devyani previously worked with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, New Delhi, where she led several research projects in India and parts of South Asia, delivered workshops, developed educational material, conducted audits, made submissions to various national and international forums and contributed to fact finding reports. Her publications can be accessed here.
From 2021 to 2023, she served as the Principal Investigator of the project ‘Benchmarking and Strengthening the Role of Women in Karnataka Police’ at NLSIU. She looks forward to working with the Dean of Research in designing and implementing research policies and processes at the University.
She serves as a member of the Indian Police Foundation, an independent think tank based in New Delhi, and also as a member of the subgroup on police for the India Justice Report.
She completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Hindu College, University of Delhi, and Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Warwick, UK.