Supriya Akerkar
Dr Supriya Akerkar is the Director of Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University, Oxford UK. She has been working in the field of development and emergencies for more than 20 years. She has worked with International development organisations, social movements and civil society campaigns in Global South and UK on issues of gender, social equity and building inclusive societies. Her work focusses on furthering rights of women, gender and sexual minorities, older people and people with disabilities, indigenous people, and refugees, displaced people affected by disasters and emergencies.
She is currently the principle investigator for the research project Ageing in Displacement. Her other research initiatives include exploring marginalisation and displacement processes and the agency of the affected persons in the context of disasters, emergencies and development. More recently she has explored the social changes within the villages affected and displaced by Himalayan river erosions in India. She is also the Co-I for the project The contribution of Urban community gardens to inclusive and sustainable local environments funded by British Academy. She has expertise in the use of quantitative, as well as ethnographic, narratives and life course methodological approaches to understand overlapping and intersectional discriminations and processes for social change.
Supriya has an under graduate degree in law from Mumbai University, India; Masters in Development Studies from Institute of Social Studies, Hague, Netherlands and PhD from University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK.
You can find more information about Supriya’s work at: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/temp...