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Pankhuri is a Research Associate in the School of Management at the University of Bath working on a 4-year UKRI project to interrogate the meaning of dignity in supply chains in India and the UK’s garment and IT industries.

She completed her PhD in Sociology from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Her research lies at the intersection of Sociology and Management Studies and she focuses on work and exploitation, migration, trafficking and bureaucracy. 

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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, Journeys to freedom? Post-Rescue Ethnography of Bonded Labourers and Sex Workers in India, University of Bristol

14 Sept 201713 Sept 2021

Award Date: 17 Dec 2021

Development Studies, Master in Science, School of Oriental and African Studies

14 Sept 201515 Sept 2016

Award Date: 16 Sept 2016

External positions

Co-Convenor of the study group, Slavery and Modern Slavery, British Sociological Association

2022 → …

Keywords

  • ethnography
  • research methods
  • bureaucracy
  • temporality
  • migration
  • Trafficking
  • slavery
  • labour
  • work
  • gender
  • sex work

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