I am an academic and researcher based at the School of Geography and Environment in the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol. My research focus is located at the intersection of urban, social, and technological transformations taking place in the contemporary world. Within this, I explore the diverse implications of digitalisation, urbanisation and globalisation on work, well-being, welfare and development
My PhD and early postdoctoral work, funded by the ESRC has looked at labour geographies of India's new services economy, examining the working lives of those engaged in its diverse Information Technology (IT) & Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sectors. Since 2021, I have additionally been involved in a project at the Open University analysing data drawn from a large-scale study of gender and transnational mobility amongst 'high-skilled' tech workers in the UK and India. I plan to expand on this work by embarking on a collaborative project that traces the transition of work in global outsourcing / offshoring since its inception to its more recent introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and modern platform technologies.
Between 2021-2024 I also led a participatory research project documenting lived experiences of digital app-based drivers on large platforms such as Uber, Zomato, and Ola in the aftermath of COVID-19 in India. The project explores their negotiations with platform companies, the state and traditional labour market intermediaries, and their ways of coping with precarities of digital work and life. Browse the illustrating digital precarity link on this website to get a sense of the outcomes of the collaborative project in visual form. I aim to expand this project with app-based logistics and transport workers, groups and unions in South-West UK and in Europe.
Overall, I aim to critical engage with and extend cross-disciplinary exchange around digitalisation, urban well-being, and development, emerging from contemporaneous collaborative explorations across the global North and the global South. I also teach and supervise students on a broad range of topics in geography, development and environmental management, with modules including but not limited to: geographies of globalisation, global cities and urbanisms; environment and social justice; and digital research methods.
Please feel free to browse this website to know more about my ongoing research projects, collaborations and publications. If you are interested in any of these topics and/or would like to discuss possible academic collaborations, please get in touch at [email protected]
My PhD and early postdoctoral work, funded by the ESRC has looked at labour geographies of India's new services economy, examining the working lives of those engaged in its diverse Information Technology (IT) & Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sectors. Since 2021, I have additionally been involved in a project at the Open University analysing data drawn from a large-scale study of gender and transnational mobility amongst 'high-skilled' tech workers in the UK and India. I plan to expand on this work by embarking on a collaborative project that traces the transition of work in global outsourcing / offshoring since its inception to its more recent introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and modern platform technologies.
Between 2021-2024 I also led a participatory research project documenting lived experiences of digital app-based drivers on large platforms such as Uber, Zomato, and Ola in the aftermath of COVID-19 in India. The project explores their negotiations with platform companies, the state and traditional labour market intermediaries, and their ways of coping with precarities of digital work and life. Browse the illustrating digital precarity link on this website to get a sense of the outcomes of the collaborative project in visual form. I aim to expand this project with app-based logistics and transport workers, groups and unions in South-West UK and in Europe.
Overall, I aim to critical engage with and extend cross-disciplinary exchange around digitalisation, urban well-being, and development, emerging from contemporaneous collaborative explorations across the global North and the global South. I also teach and supervise students on a broad range of topics in geography, development and environmental management, with modules including but not limited to: geographies of globalisation, global cities and urbanisms; environment and social justice; and digital research methods.
Please feel free to browse this website to know more about my ongoing research projects, collaborations and publications. If you are interested in any of these topics and/or would like to discuss possible academic collaborations, please get in touch at [email protected]
