I am a demographer by education and social researcher by passion. I am particularly interested in Ethnic Minority Communities experience in the UK. Gender issues and ageing population are other areas that I have delivered researches in the past. My experience in working with diverse communities encouraged me to use digital reporting methods to bring back the work for the participants. Hence my researches are not limited to publications, my documentary films are widely used by Local Authorities, Police, Community groups and Service provider organisations as learning tools and for raising awareness. Participatory research which I practiced widely, encouraged ‘hard to reach’ groups to engage with academia. My work was featured on ‘Culture Unplugged’ worldwide online film festival and Bucks County Museum’s ‘Art of Islam’ festival tour. My research-based work (My Life, My Memories) on Dementia was selected for National Dementia award on ‘Partnership of the year 2017’ category.

I was born and raised in West Bengal, India. Before coming o the UK, I led a professional life in academia. My own migration experience resulted in unemployment and I had to start from scratch to build my career. Before joining the University of Wolverhampton in 2020 as a Lecturer, I worked as a Community Coordinator Research at a charity, Community and Impact Lead at a Community Foundation and Associate Lecturer at Bucks New University and Wolverhampton University.

My own life experiences also inspired me to work on women issues. In 2011, I founded International Women of Chiltern group with the help from Chiltern District Council to create a platform for women of different culture. My research ‘A Status of Women and Girls in Buckinghamshire’ (2019) has led to start a Women Social Enterprise initiative in Buckinghamshire. I was a Trustee of Wycombe, Chiltern And South Bucks Rape Crisis before moving to Wolverhampton.

In my current role, I teach on undergraduate programmes of Social Work and Social Care, supervise doctoral and professional doctorate students, lead on post graduate doctoral programme of the school, co-chair School of Sciety and community ethics subject panel, facilitate reserach seminar series Talking Head and monthly reserach group. 

• Migration and British Asian women
• Ageing population
• Gender studies
• Dementia
• Dometic abuse 

 Most recent reserach projects :

1. Preventing Gendered Violence: Lessons from the Global South. What can England and Wales learn from Women's Police Stations to Prevent Gender Violence? (2021)- Co-researcher with Professor Elaine Arnull.

2. Supporting Families Experiencing Domestic Violence and Abuse during COVID-19: A Practitioners Perspective of Impact on Services (2021). Co-researcher with Professor Elaine Arnull and Susie Hawkes.

3. Brookside Safer Street Project: Community participation: Evidencing change (2021) Co-researched with Professor Elaine Arnull

Fellow of Royal Geographical Society 

PhD 

Calcutta University, India 2006-2010

MA 

Calcutta University, India 1997

Publication: 

1. Past and present gender dilemma and it’s role in shaping the future of Asian women in a southern county of the United Kingdom- An ethnographic study, Narratives of Displacement (2016), Chapter 3, IRF Press, Warsaw.

 Digital disseminations: 

• Mend the Gap: https://youtu.be/wWnzLc00myE
• I am still me: https://youtu.be/gxoz6OUcIn0
• My life my memories: https://youtu.be/f4xi77PdQ8s
• Helping hands with coloured bands: https://youtu.be/SAqul-vApUA

Conference papers:

1. Conference presentation at UN 65^th Commission on the Status of Women; 23^rd March 2021. Presentation title Re-Imagining the Policing of Gender Violence: What can the world learn from Latin America’s Police Stations for Women? Co-presented with Professor Elaine Arnull.

 2. Conference presentation  at UN 65^th Commission on the Status of Women; 25^th March 2021. Presentation title: Supporting Families Experiencing Domestic Violence and Abuse during COVD-19: A Practitioners Perspective of Impact on Services. Co-presented with Professor Elaine Arnull and Susie Hawkes.

3. Conference presentation at Annual Research Conference, University of Wolverhampton, 7^th June, 2021. Presentation title: Supporting Families Experiencing Domestic Violence and Abuse during COVD-19: A Practitioners Perspective of Impact on Services. Co-presented with Susie Hawkes.

4. Conference presentation titled ‘Status of girls and women in Buckinghamshire’ at the Women conference at Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, 10th October 2018

5. Delivered keynote speech at the  III International Conference for Medical Humanities, London 16^th September 2017 'I don't want to hear if it's happening to me' - A digital ethnographic study on Black and Ethnic Minorty communities' experience on Dementia in Buckinghasmhire, UK

 6. My Life Went Backward When I Arrived in England’ – A Digital Ethnographic Study on How the Migration Changed the Social and Cultural Life of First Generation British Asian Women in Buckinghamshire, UK, UK at the ‘Somewhere in between Borders and Borderlands’ International conference, London, 29th April 2017

7. “Past and present gender dilemma and it’s role in shaping the future of Asian women in a southern county of the United Kingdom- An ethnographic study” at International Conference on Gender Studies, Krakow, Poland, June 2016

8. “Taking Ideas- Moving Stories – Migrant Communities in Transit”, Bucks New University, March 2014

My past experience involves leading community consultations in order to understand the needs of service users and promote and recruit new health improvement initiatives and training interventions to target community groups at a community and training centre in a high deprivation ward of Buckinghamshire. I have led the data collection, analysis and evaluation of the Buckinghamshire County Council Public Health programmes.

I also have led impact evaluation for community projects, supported capacity building of voluntary sector, delivered researches to understand the local hidden need.

I enjoy exploring places and people. I am writing my travel stories for the past 7 years on my Bengali travel blog Beranorgolpo, meaning the travel stories. Gardening, pot painting, herbal soap making are amongst my several passions in life. I am a regular practitioner of Yoga.