Dr Utsa Mukherjee
Lecturer in Education

Summary

Dr Utsa Mukherjee is a Lecturer in Education. Prior to joining Brunel in September 2021, he was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southampton, an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck University of London, and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton.

A sociologist by background, Utsa's research interests lie in the study of childhood, parenting cultures, leisure, South Asian diaspora, migration, and race and racism. He has understaken research in the UK and in India, and is particularly interested in participatory, ethnographic and interview-based methods. His first monograph Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure is forthcoming with Bristol University Press. 

Utsa is the Book Review Co-editor for the journal Children & Society and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer of the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers). He is also a member of the Education, Identities and Society (EIS) research group within the Department of Education at Brunel. 

Qualifications

PhD Sociology (Royal Holloway, University of London)

BA English (Major) with Sociology and History (Presidency University Kolkata, India)