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WoBla Project: Dr Dyuti Chakravarty joins our Department as a Postdoctoral Scholar under the mentorship of Dr Theresa O'Keefe.
Dr Dyuti Chakravarty has joined our Department as a Postdoctoral Scholar where she will be working on an HEA-funded project Women of the Borderlands: A Walking Biographical Study of Women's Everyday Life on the UK/Irish Border under the mentorship of Dr Theresa O'Keefe. Welcome Dyuti!
Dyuti recently defended her PhD thesis titled ‘Break the Cage: Women's Body Politics of Respectability and Autonomy in India and Ireland’ under the supervision of Dr. Alice Feldman at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin. Her thesis involves an asymmetric comparative analysis of two contemporary feminist movements for bodily autonomy - Pinjra Tod (right to mobility in India) and Repeal the Eighth (reproductive rights in Ireland).
In the past, she has collaborated with artist Eimear Walshe, on an Arts Council of Ireland-funded project to commemorate the legacies of Irish-Indian suffragette Margaret Cousins. Between July 2020 and April 2021, she worked as a Research Assistant on a World Health Organization-funded project on Abortion Policy Implementation in Ireland. This project comprised of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and was led by Professor Joanna Mishtal at the Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida. This study has informed the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act of 2018. Dyuti has also worked as a Research Assistant on an Irish Research Council funded project titled Negotiating Difference on a Shared Island: Agonism, Commonality or Critical Constitutionalism, led by Professor Jennifer Todd (UCD).
As a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCC, she will be working on an HEA-funded project Women of the Borderlands: A Walking Biographical Study of Women's Everyday Life on the UK/Irish Border under the mentorship of Dr. Theresa O'Keefe.