Professor Parvati Raghuram was appointed Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, together with 51 leading UK social scientists.

The award celebrates the work of "of distinguished individuals from academic, public and private sectors, across the full breadth of the social sciences. Through leadership, applied research, policymaking and practice, they have worked to help understand and tackle some of the toughest challenges facing us in modern times. Their work has contributed to the UK’s position as a world leader in the social sciences."

As a scholar on migration and a postcolonial geographer, Parvati's research interests have focused on how the mobility of people, goods and ideas are reshaping our world, also earning her the RGS-IBG Murchison Award for publications contributing to the geographical understandings of mobility in 2016. Recently, she has examined the relationship between gender and skilled migration in the IT industry by comparing the UK and India, considering why the information technology sector in India has managed to both employ and retain women in highly-skilled roles, in contrast to many places including the UK.

Her co-authored works include Gender, Migration and Social Reproduction (Palgrave), The Practice of Cultural Studies (Sage), Gender and International Migration in Europe (Routledge) and co-edited South Asian Women in the Diaspora (Berg) and Tracing Indian Diaspora: Contexts, Memories, Representations (Sage). She has written for policy audiences having co-authored research papers for a number of think-tanks. She co-edits the journal South Asian Diaspora with the Centre for Study of Diaspora, Hyderabad and the Palgrave Pivot series Mobility and Politics with Martin Geiger and William Walters both at Ottawa. See her complete list of publications.