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Dr Shreyashi Dasgupta
PhD

Lecturer in Critical Social & Political Geography
Geography and Planning

Professional Activities

Public Engagement

February 2022 - Royal Geographical Society: Schools Members Lecture 2022 on 'Makeshift accommodations in Dhaka and Mumbai’. https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/makeshift-accommodations-housing-precarity-and-pos/

January 2021 - Royal Geographical Society: Ask the geographer podcast for an episode on ‘Coloniality of Cities and Built Environment’ https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/dr-shreyashi-dasgupta-and-dr-jess-hope-explain-the/

March 2020 - Royal Geographical Society Microlectures on 'In Search of a Lost House in Bangladesh' https://www.rgs.org/geography/online-lectures/in-search-of-a-lost-house-in-bangladesh-shreya/

November 2018 - Centre for Human Rights, Cambridge for Declarations: The Human Rights podcast for an episode on ‘Right to Sleep: Homelessness and Temporary Housing' https://soundcloud.com/declarationspod/right-to-sleep

October 2018 - Photo Exhibition titled 'Beds in Sheds: Are Bangladesh and India any different' at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

June 2016 - Nominated as one of the Top 4 ‘Rising Stars’ by Girton College, Cambridge and was invited to deliver a talk titled 'It is the formal rather than the informal that requires explanation: Learning from Informal Urbanism in Mumbai' at Girton College Benefactors’ Event.

Professional Body Memberships

• Member of American Association of Geographers (AAG)
• Associate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
• Member of British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)
• Member of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
• Member of the Regional Studies Association (RSA)

Other Administrative or Committee Roles

• Committee member, Development Geographies Research Group, Royal Geographical Society and Prize Coordinator for David W Smith Memorial Prize for sixth form students (2018-2022)
• Co-founder and co-convenor, Cambridge Urbanism in the Global South Working Group