Dr. Mythili Ramchand is currently Professor and Co-chairperson at the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Before joining TISS she was the Director of RV Educational Consortium, Bangalore from 2005 to 2018. She worked as science teacher educator and a high school physics teacher prior to 2005. Her research interests are in the areas of philosophy of education, initial teacher preparation, inclusive education and mediation of resources in teaching learning process.

Mythili has led a number of collaborative projects and research studies including a Government of India supported research on comparative study of initial teacher education in the BRICS countries, an inclusive STEM teacher education programme in Nigeria, Tanzania and Bhutan, a research project focused on supporting educators for inclusive education in India, and co-developing a transnational module on global teacher education policies and practices for equitable and quality education. She helped launch the South Asia Research Hub on Inclusive Education. She has worked on initial teacher education curriculum and developed reading and related materials and been involved in capacity enhancement programmes for faculty of education. Mythili has offered her consultancy to a number of organisations and been in the panel of committees on teacher education curriculum renewal and reforms. Some of the recent publications include: Ramchand, M., Chandran, M., Rai, R., & Vithanapathirana, M. (2023). School Practicum Experience in Initial Teacher Education during Times of Disruptions: The Case of Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka. In Uma Pradhan, Karen Valentin and Mohini Gupta (Eds). Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia (pp. 199-214). London: Routledge. Ramchand, M., Khunyakari, R., & Bose, A. Eds (2023). Learning without Burden. London: Routledge. Padalkar, S., Ramchand, M., Shaikh, R., & Vijaysimha, I. (2022). Science Education: Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Routledge India. Ramchand, M. (2021). Conceptions, perceptions and practices of inclusive education in schools in Karnataka (India): moving beyond normative prescriptions and blame-game. International Journal of Inclusive Education