Introduction
Dr Pathik Pathak (FHEA, FRSA, Ph.D. Warwick) is currently Founding Director of the Social Impact Lab at the University of Southampton.
He is a passionate advocate for innovation in higher education and has pioneered challenge-based education to improve graduate employability and connect universities to social and environmental challenges. He is also a TEDx speaker and a World Economic Forum agenda shaper. He has written over 50 articles for The Guardian, The Conversation, The Times of India and The Hindustan Times.
His research and enterprise portfolio includes work on post-growth urban social innovation and social enterprise for health in low and middle-income countries. His work, in collaboration with many others, has been funded by the ESRC, Innovate UK, The British Council, UKIERI and the NIHR.
As Founding Director of the multi-award-winning Social Impact Lab, he leads the University’s international work on social entrepreneurship and web technologies for impact. In recent years its work has been recognised by the Guardian University Awards, the Ashoka-Cordes Awards, and the Unltd-HEFCE awards.
As a result of his work in higher education, he has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2014 and was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samann in 2015 for outstanding contributions to education. He was named one of the top 5 digital leaders by the Asians in Tech Award in 2016, was runner-up in the Sociological Review Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in 2016, was named a World Economic Forum agenda shaper in 2017 and was runner-up in the “Best in Education” category at the British Asian Awards in 2018.
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Dr Pathik Pathak (FHEA, FRSA, Ph.D. Warwick) is currently Founding Director of the Social Impact Lab at the University of Southampton.
He is a passionate advocate for innovation in higher education and has pioneered challenge-based education to improve graduate employability and connect universities to social and environmental challenges. He is also a TEDx speaker and a World Economic Forum agenda shaper. He has written over 50 articles for The Guardian, The Conversation, The Times of India and The Hindustan Times.
His research and enterprise portfolio includes work on post-growth urban social innovation and social enterprise for health in low and middle-income countries. His work, in collaboration with many others, has been funded by the ESRC, Innovate UK, The British Council, UKIERI and the NIHR.
As Founding Director of the multi-award-winning Social Impact Lab, he leads the University’s international work on social entrepreneurship and web technologies for impact. In recent years its work has been recognised by the Guardian University Awards, the Ashoka-Cordes Awards, and the Unltd-HEFCE awards.
As a result of his work in higher education, he has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2014 and was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samann in 2015 for outstanding contributions to education. He was named one of the top 5 digital leaders by the Asians in Tech Award in 2016, was runner-up in the Sociological Review Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in 2016, was named a World Economic Forum agenda shaper in 2017 and was runner-up in the “Best in Education” category at the British Asian Awards in 2018.
Fields of expertise: Disability, Financing for inclusive development, Gender equality, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Social innovation / public sector innovation / policy innovation, Sustainable Development Goals