Dr Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

Kanchana N. Ruwanpura is a Honorary Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh and Professor of Human Geography, University of Göteborg, SWEDEN.  Until recently, she was a Reader in Development Geography at the Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh; and for 2019-20 held spent time in continental Europe holding fellowships.  Initially she spent time as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Göttingen, Germany, followed by a period as France-ILO Chair Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes, France.

During Kanchana’s tenure at the University of Edinburgh, she served as a Director for Center of South Asian Studies (2014-18), Programme Director (2016-19) and Co-Director (2013-16) of the MSc in Environment and Development at the Institute of Geography.  Kanchana’s research explores the intersection between feminism, ethnicity, labour and post-war development; on which she has published extensively in numerous peer reviewed journals, collected editions and authored a monograph published by Michigan University Press.  She has a book  forthcoming with Cambridge University Press and also serves as an editor of Geoforum and Gender, Place and Culture.