Professor Parvati Raghuram

Parvati Raghuram is Professor in Geography and Migration at the Open University. Her research interests focus on the ways in which the mobility, of individuals, goods and of ideas is reshaping the world.

She has published widely on gender, migration and development and on postcolonial theory. She has also been exploring the use of ‘care’ as a concept in social policy, postcolonial theory and feminist ethics.

One of her recent AHRC funded project is Decolonising Peace Education in Africa (DEPA, 2019-2025) where she looked at how to ‘actually decolonise’. The project focused on how arts can be used in educating for peace. Sixteen projects were funded across 14 countries in Africa as part of this consortium.

Arising from this, the team also worked on the project Creative Peace Economies in Africa. These projects have led to the production of a number of open educational resources which are freely available.

Her latest project is Building Equitable African Partnerships, funded by the AHRC, aims to apply some of the findings of DEPA in how to do partnerships beyond the development gaze.

All these projects have been underpinned by the desire to explore postcolonial care and responsibility in Geography, both in theory and practice.