About me
I’m an academic working at the intersection of the energy/digital humanities, critical policy studies, and the ‘twin transition’. I am specifically interested in understanding the ways in which issues of toxicity, waste and pollution impact the lives and livelihoods of marginalised communities and the places they inhabit. My research is invested in the issues of climate and energy justice and in finding sustainable pathways to building an inclusive and equitable future for all.
Since July 2025, I am a Research Fellow at the CONNECT Research Ireland Centre for Future Networks, Trinity College Dublin where I am a part of the Counter Data Lab along with Dr. Fiona McDermott and Dr. Laure De Tymowski. We work across the fields of geography, critical policy and data studies, and the energy/environmental humanities to investigate the socio-environmental impacts of ICT developments in practice, place and policy. My current project at TCD is titled The Limits to Green Growth: A Cross-Border Critical Policy Analysis of Ireland’s Energy Transition. To learn more about our work, check out our website – Counter Data Lab.
While my previous research explored the problem of pesticides poisoning in global agricultural systems with the introduction of the ‘Green’ Revolution, my current research investigates the environmental and social impacts of the ‘twin green and digital transitions’, from the stages of mining for ‘transition minerals’ to the end-of-life dumping of e-wastes. Exploring these issues through the lens of critical policy studies, I take the cue from Tess Lea in asking the question, “what counts as ‘good’ green policy?” Implicit in this line of inquiry is an interrogation of “good for whom?” and “at whose expense?”
Prior to my role at TCD, I was a Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. Following this, I received £119,250 in funding from the British Academy as a Newton International Fellow at Ulster University Belfast for my project Rematerialising the Digital: Governmentality and the Environmental Consequences of Life Online (March 2023 – June 2025).
I obtained my Ph.D. in Environmental Humanities and Cultural Studies in March 2022 from the University of Wollongong (UOW) Australia and received two awards for my thesis: the ‘Professor Jim Hagan Memorial Prize’ for the best Ph.D. in the Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (ASSH), and the ‘Examiners’ Commendation for Outstanding Thesis Award’. In October 2022, my thesis was published as a book by Rowman & Littlefield (now Bloomsbury), Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life. As a Ph.D. student in Australia, I tutored undergraduate courses in Cultural Studies.
I completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in English Literature with first honours from the University of Delhi, India, following which, from 2013 – 2015, I taught Critical Theory and English Literature as an Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi.
