Samvet has five and a half years of experience as a faculty and software engineer. As a faculty, he has worked in both government and private institutions. Samvet has done a PhD from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad with his dissertation on developing leadership behaviour of school principals through an online professional development program. He has worked majorly in the domain of education, especially in teacher education, student motivation, engagement, and decentralization policies. During the doctoral program, he has explored various organizational concepts like leadership, learning, capacity, and motivation by studying school as an organization. In the forthcoming research, he aims to explore these concepts in different organizational settings.

Manuscripts under review:

• Kuril, S., Avadhanam, R.M, & Chand, V.S. The Influence of Negative Teacher Behavior on Student Motivation and Critical Thinking. (Under Review).
• Kuril, S., Chand, V.S., Shukla, K.D., & Gupta, V., Designing and Evaluating a ‘Third Space’ Curriculum for Online Leadership Development: Enhancing Leadership Behavior Among School Principals in India. (Under Review)

Conferences and Reports:

• Kakkar, S., Kuril, S., Singh, S., Saha, S., & Dugar, A. (2021). The influence of remote communication satisfaction and CSR association on employee work alienation and job satisfaction: A moderated-mediation study. Paper selected at Academy of Management 2021, Virtual Conference.
• Kuril, S., Gupta, V., & Chand, V.S. (2021) Relationship between Negative Teacher Behaviors and Student Engagement: Evidence from India. Paper selected at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Florida, USA.
• Kuril, S., & Chand, V.S. (2020). Negotiating the Identity of a “Public” Participant: Public School Principals and Online Professional Development. Paper selected at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Comparative International Education Society, Miami, Florida. USA.
• Shukla, K.D., Kuril, S., & Chand, V.S. Does negative teacher behaviour influence student self-efficacy and mastery goal orientation. Paper selected at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.
• Kuril, S., Chand, V.S., & Avadhanam, R.M., Does negative teacher behaviour influence student’s critical thinking? Paper presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Comparative International Education Society, San Fransisco, USA.
• Kuril, S., Kapoor, A., & Shah, P. Coaching, Commodification and Consumption: The role of test preparation services in marketization of education and the educated. Paper selected for presentation at the 2019 Meeting of the Journal of Marketing Research, Austin, USA.
• Kuril, S., Chand, V.S., Shukla, K.D., & Gupta, V (2018) Do online professional development program improve leadership behaviour of school principal? Paper presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Comparative International Education Society, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Kuril, S., Chand, V.S., & Shukla, A. (2018). Teacher educators as policy entrepreneurs – how do motivation, innovative work behaviour, and personality profiles relate to policy entrepreneurship outcomes? Paper presented at the 2018 International Academic Forum conference, Dubai, UAE.
• Prepared policy inputs for the New Education Policy at IIM A to be submitted to policy drafting committee headed by Dr. K. Kasturirangan (http://www.inshodh.org/upload/resource_doc/Policy%20Suggestions_By%20EIBANK.pdf)

• Chand, V.S., & Kuril, S. (2018). Contextualising educational decentralization policies in India. Economic & Political Weekly.
• Shukla, K.D, Kuril, S., & Chand, V.S., (2020). Does negative teacher behaviour influence student self-efficacy and mastery goal orientation. Learning and Motivation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2020.101653
• Chand, V.S., Kuril, S., & Shukla, A. (2020). Dialoguing with Teacher-educators, Valorising Teacher Innovations. London Review of Education. https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.18.3.09
• Chand, V.S, Kuril, S., Deshmukh, S. K., & Avadhanam, Rukmini (2020). Assessing Teacher Innovations: Expert versus Peer Ratings. International Journal of Educational Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-04-2020-0185
• Kuril, S., Gupta, V., & Chand, V.S. (2021) Relationship between Negative Teacher Behaviors and Student Engagement: Evidence from India. International Journal of Educational Research. (Forthcoming)
• Chand, V.S, Deshmukh, S. K, Kuril, S. (2021) Reforming Public In-service Teacher Training Systems. Economic & Political Weekly. (Forthcoming)

• MGT 111 - Identity and Behaviour 
• MGT 112 - Organisational Processes