Dr Claire Crawford

Claire is a Teaching Associate in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a Visiting Fellow at the King’s College London Global South Research Group. She recently completed an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of York, working on the digital governance of social movements. Her research sits at the intersection of transnational social movements, digital politics, feminist and postcolonial theory, and the political economy of India.

Following an early career as a project manager, Claire completed her MA in Contemporary India at the King’s India Institute. She also holds a BA in History & Italian from the University of Leeds. Her PhD in Politics is from King’s College London, where she was a Leverhulme Fellow with the doctoral programme ‘Interrogating Vision of a Post-Western World: Interdisciplinary and Interregional Perspectives on the Future in a Changing International Order’. She has also worked as a Research Associate on a number of projects, and consulted for the British International Research Institutes at the British Academy.

After her PhD, she worked as an Associate Lecturer at York, teaching Postcolonial and Gender Politics at York. She is a member of the Algorithmic Governance Research Network, and volunteers with EduAccess and Age UK.