About — notes from 'the field'

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notes from ‘the field’ //

‘the field’ isn’t just the troubled notion of the “over there” data collection sites, as though it is separate from you & where you come into being/are being… its the “field” you’re in, how you’re (un) disciplined, where you push against a structure and where you comply…

notes from ‘the field’ is the marginalia, the publications diaries, the scribbles around the edges of academia.

dr rishita nandagiri //

I’m a feminist multi-method researcher broadly focusing on abortion and reproductive (in) justice in the Global Souths. My interdisciplinary work is underpinned by feminist and reproductive justice approaches, and interrogates how power and politics manifest and are wielded at micro, meso, and macro levels. I previously worked with feminist collectives and organisations on sexual and reproductive justice in the Global Souths, and my politics and approaches are shaped by these experiences.

I am currently a Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. I am also Deputy Programme Director of postgraduate programmes.

I was previously at the London School of Economics & Political Science where I was a Fellow on LSE100 (2021-2022), and a Fellow in Health and International Development at the Department of International Development (2019-2020). In 2020-2021, I held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science. I am currently a Visiting Fellow at LSE’s Department of International Development.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I serve on the IUSSP scientific panel for abortion research and as a trustee for the British Society for Population Studies. I was an editorial advisory board member of the BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health journal until 2024.

Joe Strong and I co-founded and co-run the Abortion Book Club, where we discuss depictions of abortion in fiction.

My doctoral research focused on women’s abortion experiences and trajectories in India. I was supervised by Professor Ernestina Coast and Professor Tiziana Leone.