Dr. Katy Gardner

Biography

Katy Gardner trained at Cambridge and has been a faculty member at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 2013, after working at the University of Sussex from 1993 to 2013. Her research focuses on globalization, migration, and economic change, particularly concerning Bangladeshi transnational communities in the UK. Her doctoral research in the 1980s examined the societal transformations associated with overseas migration from the village of Sylhet, which resulted in the monograph, Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh (OUP 1995). Gardner has a keen interest in the relationship between anthropology and development, reflected in her book, Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge (Pluto Press, 1996; co-authored with David Lewis). The extended edition, Anthropology and Development: Twenty-First Century Challenges, was published by Pluto Press in 2015. Additionally, Gardner has conducted extensive fieldwork among Bangladeshi communities in the UK, leading to works such as Age, Narrative and Migration: Life Course and Life Histories of Bengali Elders in London (Berg, 2002), which analyzes narratives of migration in relation to aging and illness. Her current research includes exploring couples' counseling and marriage mediation in the context of precarity in Bangladesh and the impacts of dowry systems. Gardner is actively seeking new PhD students interested in anthropology, development, and related themes.

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