about the team
Ayona Datta will lead a team of 12 researchers. This includes 3 international collaborators, 5 postdoctoral researchers, 3 PhD students, and a part-time project administrator. The project also includes an advisory panel that have expertise in the relevant themes and contexts of the research.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
AYONA DATTA
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK
Prof. Datta works on the intersections of urban futures, gender citizenship and smart cities, focusing on new configurations of gender-power relations in the digital-territorial margins. Her research is set in the ethos of co-production with grassroots communities using digital/mapping, visual and participatory research methods to develop and build gendered capacity in the digital and urban margins. Her work has had high translatability into policy and public knowledge and has gained international recognition through invited presentations in UNCTAD, UN ECOSOC and UN-Habitat. She has been frontline Editor of Urban Geography since 2017 and is on editorial boards of: Antipode, Dialogues in Human Geography, Digital Geography and Society, EPD: Society and Space and Territory, Politics and Governance. She received the Busk Medal from Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in 2019 for her contributions to understanding of smart cities through fieldwork.
COLLABORATORS
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POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
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post-graduate Researchers
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project administrator
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