Senior Lecturer in Work, Race and Decolonial Studies
Roles and Responsibilities
- Course Organiser, The Future of Work (MA Honors)
- Course Organiser, Managing Employment Relations (MSc HRM)
- Course Co-organiser, The Coloniality of Data (MSc Data, Inequality and Society - EFI)
- PhD Thesis Supervisor
- MSc Dissertation Supervisor
- UG Dissertation Supervisor
Background
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I am an engineering student (Bombay) turned politics major with legal aspirations (Oberlin, Ohio) turned race and ethnic studies scholar (San Diego, California) turned work and management researcher (London). It has been a convoluted journey but somehow makes perfect sense. Along the way, I have picked up a love of writing and held onto a commitment to justice.
My academic thinking and writing focuses mainly on the ethics and politics of work in a global context. In particular, I am interested in the role of difference (primarily, race and gender) in the emergence and distribution of new forms of work. More recently, I have been thinking about the eugenicist underpinnings of discourses on technology.
Beyond my academic commitments, I have been working as a facilitator and mediator for community and activist organisations. I have a particular interest in issues of housing, homelessness and migrant justice.
I am co-convenor of the Edinburgh Race Equality Network, Migrant Officer of the Edinburgh University and College Union, and a board member of Shakti Women's Aid.
Current doctoral supervisees:
Abhishek Nimesh: Re-thinking well-being at work
Amira Rahmat: Postcolonial critique of travelling gender equality programmes
Mally Smith: Feminist critique of compassion in business education
Han-ju Yang: Socio-ethical critique of technology adoption within social enterprises
Past doctoral supervisees:
Emily Cook-Lundgren: "On the possibility of local-expatriate equality in international development" (examined December 2022).
I am interested in supervising PhD projects that centre critical race, feminist, queer, and post-/decolonial critique. I encourage prospective applicants to familiarise themselves with my research, including the literature that I work with, in order to evaluate the compatibility of our intellectual interests.
Research Interests
- Postcolonial /Decolonial Critique
- Race, Feminist and Queer Theory
- Science and Technology Studies