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Dr Geeta Ludhra
Lecturer in Education

Research area(s)

  • South Asian women’s ‘success’ stories and cultural heritage - an intergenerational lens. 
  • I draw on narrative research approaches 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 and migration herstories.
  • Language and inclusion pedagogies that support multilingual pupils. Decolonization of the curriculum through a critical planning approach, to reflect diverse communities and histories. In my Curriculum Enhancement teaching, I explore culturally responsive teaching approaches.
  • Diversity, inclusion and representation for people of colour in the countryside green spaces - how inclusion and power operate 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.

Research Interests

See 'Research areas' section above.

I am currently working on my book research, a project that takes my PhD forwards through an intergenerational Black Feminist lens. I am conducting in-depth narrative interviews with British South Asian women across the generations. I am seeking to present authentic accounts of their 'becoming successful' journeys, recognising the nuances and intersectionalities of their lived experiences and cultural heritage. As a British-born South Asian woman, I see my 'insider' positionality as adding a rich research lens to my work. I draw on auto/biographical studies and celebrate my own cultural heritage as a South Asian woman, daughter of first-generation Indian parents who settled in the U.K during the early 60s. My working-class and South Asian cultural heritage has been an inspiration for my academic work and community writing programme with women of colour. My critical feminist lens has inspired community-based projects, to include setting up a women's writing group (see Instagram page @educatinggeeta). We are currently writing our first South-Asian women's creative writing book, with a focus on our lived experiences through poetry.   

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: 

I have set up a feminist reading seminar series, with a particular focus and celebration on writers of colour. The series will include monthly readings, with online discussions over zoom. Please visit the website link above for the 22-23 series, or email geeta.ludhra@brunel.ac.uk for information:

Feminist reading group | Brunel University London

Research grants and projects

Research Projects

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