Ayona Datta
I am Professor of Human Geography in University College London
My broad research interests are in postcolonial urbanism, digital geographies and regional futures. My research is set in the ethos of co-production with grassroots communities using digital/mapping, visual and participatory research methods to develop and build gendered capacity in the digital and urban margins. I have received funding from European Research Council (Adv Grant), AHRC, ESRC, British Academy and Swiss National Science Foundation to examine the impacts of digital transformations on everyday urban lives in the global south. My current ERC research on ‘Regional Futures’ seeks to advance theoretical and empirical insights into the relationship between digitalisation and urbanisation in the global south. I have been frontline Editor of Urban Geography journal since 2017 and am on editorial boards of several journals: Antipode, Dialogues in Human Geography, Digital Geography and Society, EPD: Society and Space and Territory, Politics and Governance.
I received the Busk Medal from Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in 2019; and was nominated for the Geography Section PresidentIAL LECTURE by the British Science Association in 2023.
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NEW #OPENACCESS PUBLICATION: Curating #AanaJaana: Gendered authorship in the ‘contact zone’ of Delhi’s digital and urban margins