Insights, dilemmas and hopes in knowledge-making on feminist politics --- a meditation IPT event: Dr Radhika Govinda, University of Edinburgh

Dr Radhika Govinda is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of GENDER.ED, the University of Edinburgh's interdisciplinary hub for gender and sexualities studies. Before Edinburgh, she held a Lectureship in Gender Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi, India.

Radhika is also the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for her School, and an active member of the Centre for South Asian Studies. She is also a member of EREN and the Staff BAME network at Edinburgh. She was Sociology Postgraduate Advisor (On-Programme) from 2016 to 2017 and from 2018 to 2020.

In 2022-2023, Radhika was the winner of the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Staff Recognition Award for Advancing Inclusion. In 2019-2020, she was nominated from the School of Social and Political Science in the CAHSS Staff Recognition Awards in two categories: Inspiring Colleague, and Leader of Innovation and Change.

Radhika is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Trustees for Shakti Women's Aid.

Radhika's research bridges the fields of sociology of gender, international development and South Asian studies and her work sheds light on the importance of understanding gender politics at the intersections of caste, class, race and ethnicity, and religion in women's and social movements, in development policies and practice, in everyday social relations in rural and urban spaces, and in the global dynamics of knowledge production.

The three broad foci of Radhika's current research are: women's agency and activism, gender politics, development and urban social change, and intersectionality and decentring northern hegemony in knowledge production.