School of Law, Gender and Media
Sakhi Nitin Anita
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- School of Law, Gender and Media PhD researcher
- Department
- School of Law, Gender and Media
- Qualifications
- MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation, London School of Economics and Political Science (2019), MA Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (2016)
- Email address
- 589910@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Mulgi Shikali, Pragati Zali? Reimagining education, development, and progress with rural girls in India
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Navtej K Purewal
Biography
Sakhi is a PhD candidate with the Centre for Gender Studies.
Her PhD research focuses on exploring and expanding the connections between gender, education, development, and feminist praxis. She is passionate about feminist epistemologies, endeavouring to ‘engender’ knowledge from a space of creative tension with academia.
Beyond her PhD, Sakhi hopes to reimagine the classroom beyond its four walls, as a transformative space which empowers young people to critically examine and creatively challenge the systems of oppression we live in and which live within us.
Research interests
Gender and development, gender and education, feminist theory, feminist epistemologies, feminist movements, girls' education, the girl in development, India.
