SURUCHI THAPAR i s docent and senior lecturer at the Department of Government, University of Uppsala in Sweden. She has previously held academic positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Warwick, Wolverhampton and Bristol universities in the UK. Her research falls in four specific areas: Gendered Discourses of Colonialism and Nationalism, Gendered Violence in India and Europe, Ethnicity, Social Capital and Social Exclusion and Qualitative Feminist Research Methodologies. She has published widely in these research areas in journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Feminist Review, Feminist Theory, Sociological Review and Interventions. She is the recipient of many research awards including university research award (Kraftpaket för Jämställdhet) at Uppsala university in 2012. She is currently recipient of four Swedish Research Council funded projects on Civil Society and Deliberative Democracy(2015-2017), T he paradoxes of empowerment - Employment Guarantee, Women and Dalits in
India (2016-2019), From Waste to Profit: Gender, Biopolitics and Neo-liberalism in Indian Commercial Surrogacy (2017-2020) and Understanding racism in healthcare: Developing and implementing anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation (2018-2021).