Dr Claire Crawford

Claire is a Visiting Fellow with the Global South Research Group. She is based at the University of York, where she is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Politics, researching the digital governance of social movements. At King’s, she will host seminars and workshops related to her research.

She recently completed her PhD in Politics at King’s. Her thesis is titled “Social movement politics: postcolonialism, feminism and the digital in India”. The project was supervised by Professor Humeira Iqtdiar, Dr Poornima Paidipaty and Dr Paolo Gerbaudo. The project was funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of the doctoral programme 'Interrogating Vision of a Post-Western World: Interdisciplinary and Interregional Perspectives on the Future in a Changing International Order' based between the Department of Political Economy and the Department of War Studies.

Following an early career as a project manager, Claire completed her MA in Contemporary India at the King’s India Institute under the supervision of Professor Sunil Khilnani. She also holds a BA in History & Italian from the University of Leeds. In addition to her doctoral research, she has held consultancy positions at the British International Research Institutes, and has worked as a Research Associate on a number of different projects.

After her PhD, she worked as an Associate Lecturer at York, teaching Postcolonial and Gender Politics at York. She is also one seventh of the Politics of Style Collective. In her spare time, she volunteers with community projects and education access programmes.

Research interests

• Social movements
• Postcolonial and feminist theory
• Digital politics
• Indian politics

Further details

See Claire’s research profile and personal website.