Episode 3 | Gender in/of Science: Feminist Conversations | Gita Chadha with Hiyaa Ghosh

Welcome to Gender In/Of Science: Feminist Conversations conceptualised by Prof. Gita Chadha, Sociologist and Obaid Siddiqi Chair 2023-24 at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, India.
In this episode, Gita Chadha talks to Hiyaa Ghosh, a neuroscientist and Associate Professor at NCBS. She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, followed by Postdoctoral Fellowships at Columbia University & Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. The research focus of her laboratory at NCBS is to understand brain resilience. Using interdisciplinary approaches drawn from her diverse expertise, her group seeks insights into genetic regulations that underlie the maintenance of brain cells through a lifespan and deviations that contribute to neuropathologies. Ghosh is currently a Global Investigator of the European Molecular Biology Organization and a Senior Fellow of the DBT- Wellcome Trust India Alliance. She has also received the Scholars Award from the American Society of Haematology & Ramanujan Fellowship. She is passionate about science outreach and mentoring and takes an interest in music, art, culture and society in her spare time.
About the Host:
Gita Chadha, Visiting Professor at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, holds the Obaid Siddiqi Chair at NCBS, Bangalore for 2023-24. Formerly a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, she has a doctorate in sociology and has taught at Mumbai University and the University of London's International Programme in Mumbai. She chaired the Women’s Development Centre, at the University of Mumbai, from 2016 to 2020. She has developed frameworks for feminist archiving at SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, and designed a pioneering course in Feminist Science Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her research interests include science studies, feminist theories, and postcolonial studies. She has co-edited volumes titled Feminists and Science, Zero Point Bombay, and Re-Imagining Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives. She has edited special issues for Contributions to Indian Sociology, the Review of Women’s Studies of the Economic and Political Weekly, and EPW Engage. Her recent volume Mapping Scientific Method: Disciplinary Narrations is co-edited with Renny Thomas and published by Routledge.
She has collaborated with women artists and poets to promote feminist art practices in India. She regularly writes on these issues.
Acknowledgements:
NCBS Science Communications and Outreach Team
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