Parvati Raghuram

Parvati Raghuram is Professor in Geography and Migration at the Open University. She has published widely on retheorising migration of international students and skilled migrants, particularly women in the IT sector and medicine.

She is currently leading a grant on Decolonising peace education in Africa which explores the decolonisation of education as a pedagogical challenge in interdisciplinary and intercontinental research.

She won the prestigious Murchison Award from the RGS-IBG in 2016, making her the first non-white woman to win this in its’ 120 year history. She has written for policy audiences having co-authored research papers for a number of think-tanks and UN organisations.

She co-edits the journal South Asian Diaspora, Geographical Journal and the Palgrave Pivot series Mobility and Politics. She is executive board member of IMISCOE (European migration research group) and is currently chairing the BLM group there. At the OU she has been an active member of the BME Network steering group and is co-chairing the Decolonising the curriculum group.