Ayona Datta

Dr Ayona Datta is senior lecturer in citizenship and belonging in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. She has an interdisciplinary background in architecture, environmental design and planning, and her teaching and research spans across sociology, geography, and architecture. Her broader research interests are in the connections between social, political, and material geographies of cities. Research interests include: Urban transformations in the globalising South; Politics of law, gender and space; Translocal geographies; and Politics of sustainable development. She conducts research on these themes through a range of methods including semi-structured interviews, participant observations, architectural mapping, participant photography, and visual narratives.