Faculty

Anshu is a trained Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar. Her research focuses on disaster risk governance and transformative climate change adaptation through a Feminist Science Studies lens. She is particularly interested in how disaster risk is understood and addressed within public institutions in India and South Asia. She has used this perspective to develop a framework  for institutional mapping  called Situated knowledge for Institutional Mapping (SKIM).   One of her most policy impactful work is  through her ongoing collaboration  with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA),  in which she examines how disaster management planning in India can move beyond a largely compliance-oriented approach towards one that is more explicitly grounded in understanding and reducing risk.

Anshu is a visiting affiliate at King’s College London, Associate Editor for the Regional Environmental Change Journal, member of the Risk Society and Policy Research Center (RSPRC) at National Taiwan University, and member of the Centre for Integrated Research in Risk & Resilience (CIRRR) at KCL.

She has secured internationally competitive research grants from the Red Cross Global Disaster Preparedness Centre (GDPC) and the Australia India ‘Unnati’ Research Collaboration Grants, administered by the Australia India Institute through the Australian Researcher Cooperation Hub–India (ARCH-India). As a postdoc at King's College London she has contributed to major multi-country, interdisciplinary research projects, including LANDSLIP, funded by the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Department for International Development (DFID), and Tomorrow’s Cities, funded through the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). She is currently part of AdaptAIR: Climate Adaptation through Artificial Ice Reservoirs in the Himalayas, an international research project funded through the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant under Horizon Europe.