Dr. ANUSHRUTI VAGRANI is an Assistant Professor at IILM University. She is an MBA, MCA, UGC-NET-JRF/SRF fellow, and has pursued her Ph.D. from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her thesis is in the broader area of Information Communications Technology and Development (ICTD), focusing on the Internet and inequality in the context of rural households in Rajasthan, India. Skilled in qualitative and mixed-method research with long-term ethnographic research experience, she has developed leadership and mentoring skills through lecturer positions in management colleges in Rajasthan and teaching assistance for management classes at DMS, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

She has worked on several research projects with prestigious institutions, including IIT Delhi, LIRNEasia, CSC e-Governance Services, and the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology. Her primary research interests include an anthropological focus on technology adoption, usage, and impact. Interpretive research to understand the interactions between technology, social contexts, inequality, and development interests her. Her research has been published as Scopus-listed journal articles, book chapters, reports, and proceedings in prestigious academic conferences.

• Information Systems
• Applied Analytics
• Digital Transformation
• Managerial computing
• Research Methods

• Ph.D. – Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 2022
• Master of Business Administration (MBA-International Business) – Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2013
• Master of Computer Applications (MCA) – Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, 2010
• B.Sc. (Biology) – Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer, 2007

10+ years of teaching and research experience

• ICT and Development
• Technology Adoption and Impact
• Socio-technical Theory Building
• Technology and Business Applications
• Digital Governance

• Vagrani, A., Kumar, N., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2017). Decline in mobile application life cycle. Procedia computer science, 122, 957-964. (Cite score: 4, H-index: 109)
• Vagrani, A., Kaur, D., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2019). Adoption of M-commerce Among Women: An Empirical Study In India. In M-Commerce (pp. 209-234). Apple Academic Press
• Vagrani, A., John, J., Vigneswara Ilavarasan, P., & Kar, A. K. (2019). Social Media Presence & Usage in Indian Business Sector. In ICT Unbounded, Social Impact of Bright ICT Adoption: IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2019, Accra, Ghana, June 21–22, 2019, Proceedings (pp. 457-469). Springer International Publishing
• Vagrani, A., Bijarnia, S., Ilavarasan, P. V., &Masiero, S. (2020). Appraising WhatsApp in the Indian context: Understanding the rural sentiment. In Information andCommunication Technologies for Development: 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, Manchester, UK, June 10–11, 2020, Proceedings 16 (pp. 142-156). Springer International Publishing
• Verma, R. K., Vagrani, A., Ilavarasan, P. V. (2023). A reflection on methods in digital era: a case of digital mobility platforms in India. UNESCO Digital Library. Liivcenter Innovative Digital Anthropology. SHS/MOST/DA/2023/PI/1. Retrieved from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000384892
• Report: Ilavarasan, P. V & Vagrani, A. (2015). E-inclusion – Information technology training for rural scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, and women beneficiaries: An impact assessment study.Submitted to CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd. Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, New Delhi, May.
• Report: Ilavarasan, P. V. (2017). Enabling BharatNet Access: Where Do the Institutional Users Stand? Colombo: LIRNEasia.
  Undertook the pilot study for this study conducted by Prof. P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan (DMS, IIT Delhi), LIRNEasia team, and Officials at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.