Parvati Raghuram

Parvati Raghuram's research interests focus on the ways in which the mobility of individuals, goods and ideas is reshaping the world. She has looked at the experiences of gendered workers in 'knowledge' sectors such as medicine, education and the IT sector. These issues have been studied through a range of interlinked projects (see below). Her key concern is to understand the implications of mobility for class and race politics and the ways in which postcolonial theory can provide a route into such thinking. Parvati has also taken concepts and ideas beyond the global north, thinking of the role of 'middle powers' and on how narratives and identities are co-produced across the global north and south. Alongside these issues she has also kept up an interest in methodological and epistemological issues and how these play out in education.

Parvati completed an MA in India and her PhD at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She worked for many years at Nottingham Trent University before joining the Open University in 2005.