PASIFIC Fellow (EU Horizon & Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions), The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Nav's multi-sited research, in India and Canada, maps the intersection of historical power and privilege associated with gender and caste and explores how these intersections are pivotal to the materiality of contemporary caste bodies – particularly male bodies. Specifically, her research characterizes the synthesis between the macro-structural world and individual upper-caste men’s comportment and bodily expression within the context of a caste-society with a larger focus on the construction and performativity of hegemonic masculinities in different geographical spaces - namely, local & transnational.

Nav is also working on her book entitled "Hegemonic masculinity, caste, and the body: Intersections in local and transnational spaces" based on her doctoral dissertation (in progress).

To learn more about Nav's work, follow this link: linktr.ee/Navjotpal

Researcher, The University of British Columbia - Okanagan, Canada.

Sumeet's research evaluates the impact of self-help group-based microcredit programmes on the lives of women in North India. More specifically, she uses qualitative research methods to examine whether women self-help group members experience a reduction in poverty, and an improvement in their status within the household as well as the society at large, due to their participation in microcredit programmes. She also examines the interplay of poverty, caste, and gender on the formation and functioning of self-help groups.

To learn more about Sumeet's work, visit her personal website

Lecturer, The University of British Columbia

Malida's research interests center on the organization of socio-economic development processes. A significant part of her work is on post-experience education, more especially on developing spaces and processes for collective knowing and action amongst diverse actors in a territory, and on enabling relations across territories. Her research involves a concern with the facilitative roles of university researchers in such spaces/processes. Key influences on her approach have been: the human development and capability approach, Deweyan inquiry, and action research.

More recently, in early 2020, she started engaging with scholarly work on decolonizing 'what and how we know’ and on the intersections of gender, race and class - in the context of understanding real opportunities for people to be and do what they have reasons to value - in the socio-economic sphere.

For her publications, visit her profile on: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Malida-Mooken

Assistant Professor, Providence College, Rhode Island, USA

Sarah's research intersects studies of gender, families, the state, and the development of healthcare in South Asia. Specifically, she employs a critical feminist lens to interrogate the gendered impacts of a transnational development project. Sarah has a strong record of publications, robust training in both qualitative and quantitative methods, and significant teaching experience. The larger scope of her research examines women’s lives in contexts where state, community health, gendered inequalities in the workplace, and patriarchal standards in the household restrict the power and agency of women while creating the social landscape where women challenge that order.

Publications:

• Ahmed, Sarah. "Women Left Behind: Migration, Agency, and the Pakistani Woman." Gender & Society 34, no. 4 (2020): 597-619

• Ahmed, Sarah. "‘I am my own person,’women's agency inside and outside the home in rural Pakistan." Gender, Place & Culture 27, no. 8 (2020): 1176-1194.