Garima's research interests are focused on gender and politics, political dynasties, party politics, and candidate selection in national politics of India. She is working on building a theoretical model on candidate selection methods in political parties of democracies in South Asia. Her principal research question revolves around the lack of descriptive representation of women in Indian national politics. Why gender quotas at the local level of government in India has failed to boost the number of women candidates in national elections in India? She will adopt a theoretical framework based on structural, institutional, and cultural factors to explain the underrepresentation of women in national politics of the world’s largest democracy. She will use both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer the research questions. Her work is guided by both theoretical gaps in the existing literature and empirical research puzzles that demonstrates the significance of this research. The findings of this dissertation under the supervision of Professor Netina Tan, will effectively contribute to the discipline of political science especially in the areas of comparative politics, gender and politics, political dynasties, representation, public policy, identity politics, candidate-selection, and party politics of South Asia. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. She is specializing in ‘Comparative Public Policy’  in the Department. Her research is funded by the University Scholarship of McMaster. 

In addition to her doctoral research, she has completed the first few years in the graduate school, working and will continue to work as a Teaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Political Science at the University. She has been employed as a Research Assistant in ‘The Ethnic Quota Project’ during the non-teaching summer semesters at the University and have been engaged in other research activities. She was selected and have attended a summer school on ‘gender and intersectionality in public policy in Canada’ organized and funded by Concordia University, Canada in July 2019. She has also worked as a faculty of Political Science in her home country, India in government affiliated institutions. Apart from teaching in both India and Canada, she has been a research fellow at Jadavpur University in India and have also worked in the development sector of India as an educational specialist in the rural regions. She has widely travelled in India in both rural areas and urban cities and has successfully participated in several academic and non-academic conferences and workshops. She has effectively participated and is continuing to participate in conferences and academic workshops across the globe both in person and virtually in the recent past.