Dr Geeta Ludhra
Senior Lecturer in Education / Associate Dean (Equality and Diversity: Staff)

Research area(s)

• South Asian women’s ‘success’ stories and cultural heritage - an intergenerational lens. 
• I draw on an autoethnographic research approach through a critically reflexive ‘insider’ lens. I frame my work through Black Feminist/Decolonial Feminist Theory. I raise questions about how power operates for women of colour across personal and professional spaces of their lives, to include the complex intersections of gender, race, class, caste and migration herstories.
• Decolonization of the curriculum through a critical planning approach.
• Diversity, inclusion and representation for people of colour in nature spaces - how inclusion and power operates in rural countryside spaces, which have traditionally been seen as White spaces  (see ‘Impact and outreach’ tab in relation to my Secretary of State DEFRA appointed role). See Brunel Seminar Series Award and currently working on a Horizon project (Planet 4B).

Research Interests

See 'Research areas' section above.

My critical feminist lens has inspired community-based research and policy projects, to include setting up a women's writing group called 'educating geeta'. We are currently writing our first South-Asian women's creative writing book, with a focus on our lived experiences through poetry.   Over the last 5 years, my research has taken on a strong community impact focus with communities who have been historically excluded and are underrecognised for the knowledge and experiences they bring.

My PhD is available for download via the Brunel link below:

http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11651) 

Brunel research group:

I am a member of the the following research group: Interculturality for diversity and global learning, see link below to read more about our work: 

• https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Groups/Interculturality-for-Diversity-and-Global-Learning

I have led various monthly reading seminars to support staff build their subject knowledge in small groups, through a range of readings. These groups have included a monthly feminist reading series with a focus on global south feminst scholars, a decolonizing education series and a caste reading group:

see Dalit Solidarity Network | A World without Caste discrimination (dsnuk.org)

More details to be shared as this work develops.