Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi, Post Doc

By Katherine Harrison on 11 May | 0 comments

GEXcel project:

I would like to contribute and to complete the ongoing collaborative research with the Division of Gender and Medicine (Faculty of Health Sciences) and Department of Gender Studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) at Linköping University. The research would entail analysing the empirical data collected during a collaborative Vetenskapsrådet funded project (2006-2009): 'Patients Feel Violated in Health Care: How can Staff Learn to recognise when violations Occur and Prevent Victimization'.

Three theoretical but relatively under-researched themes will be analysed; a) intersectionality of structural, symbolic and interpersonal violence, b) violence embedded in social structures and its effect on individual empowerment and c) gendered discourse of vulnerabilities and violence.

Biographical notes:

Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert currently holds a senior lectureship at University of Bristol at the Department of Sociology. She has previously held teaching and research positions at the Development Studies and Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science and Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. Her research falls in four specific areas: Gendered Discourses of Colonialism and Nationalism, Gendered Violence in India and Europe, Gender, Social Capital and Social Exclusion and Qualitative Research Methodologies. She has published widely in refereed journals such as Feminist Review, Women’s Studies International Forum, Journal of Gender Studies, Women’s History Review, Norma, International Journal of Social Research Methodology and Oral History Journal. She has made several media presentations to Radio Feminist ATTAC, BBC Radio Bristol and BBC World.

In 2005, she completed a collaborative Leverhulme Trust funded project titled, Gender, Social Capital and Differential Outcomes. This research has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies and Sociological Review. In 2006 she completed a project with Integrationsverket, Sweden called State policy, strategies and implementation in combating patriarchal and ‘honour-related’ violence (for details see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/staff/thaparbjorkert.html).  In 2006 she published Women in the Indian Nationalist Movement: Unseen Faces: Unheard Voices, 1925-1942 with Sage (Delhi & London) and co-edited a special issue, Framing Gendered Identities: Local Conflicts/Global Violence for Women’s Studies International Forum.