Geetanjali Gangoli
- Senior Lecturer - BA (Hons) (Delhi University); MA (Delhi University); MPhil (Delhi University); PhD (Delhi University)
- Centre for Gender and Violence Research
- Tel: +44 (0)117 3310813
- Email: G.Gangoli@bristol.ac.uk
Personal profile
Geetanjali Gangoli is the Director of Postgraduate Research. She has worked on violence against women and feminist movements in India with a special emphasis on legal activism. She has also researched on issues around sex work, trafficking and social policy in South Asia.
Geetanjali has taught at the University of Delhi (1995-7); been a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1999-2000) and worked as a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse, University of Sunderland.
Her recent work has been a comparative study of young people's experience of violence and abuse within the family in China and the UK and an assessment of domestic violence provisions in West Newcastle.
Teaching interests
Gender and violence, domestic violence, prostitution and trafficking in South Asia; domestic violence and young people's experience of violence within the home in China.
Research interests
Domestic violence, Prostitution and trafficking; Women's movements in China and South Asia and the UK. Other interests include representations of women in the media and issues of consent and coercion within marriage.