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Raksha Pande is a social geographer with research interests in postcolonial and feminist geographies, marriage and family studies, social research methodology, and critical university studies. She teaches courses in development and gender, globalisation and neoliberalism, feminist philosophy in human geography, and supervises graduate research projects.

She is the author of . Learning to Love featured on BBC Radio 4's flagship social science programme 'Thinking Allowed' in an episode titled 'Love and Romance'. Click to listen to her interview with Laurie Taylor.

Together with she is the creator of  - a comic book for secondary school children. It can be read on its own or can be used in the classroom with worksheets for relationship education. Please email Raksha Pande if you would like free copies of the comic and worksheets for your school.

She has written dozens of articles and chapters in geography journals and anthologies. Her research has featured in , , , and . She has been a guest speaker on BBC Radio 4’s programme and . 

Raksha is was an editorial board member of (2017-2024) and was book reviews editor for the journal (2020-2023). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research Interests

Raksha's research interests are focused on the interface of social, political and development geographies. At a conceptual level, her interest lies in exploring the intersections between postcolonial and feminist approaches within human geography. These theoretical concerns are grounded in empirical research in India and the UK.

Completed projects include:

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This Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project is aimed at exploring the different ways in which young British-Pakistani women and men understand and explore relationships through the stories they produce and consume.

This project aims to explore young people's everyday experiences of nationhood and living with diversity in a post-Brexit UK.This project is funded by a grant from the 缅北禁地 Research Excellence Academy.

This project is the culmination of her doctoral research which explores the different contours of love,marriage and belonging among the Indian diaspora in Britain with a specific focus on. 

This project is concerned with examining the changing nature of academia. It includes a writing collective interested in conceptualizingwhere individuals both desire and are controlled through the generation of proliferating It also examines the different strategies through which to the data university can be operationalised.

Postgraduate Supervision

Current doctoral students:

Stuti Pradhan is studying Sikkimese women's differentiated citizenship.

Students who have completed their thesis under her supervision include:

2019 Dr Stefan Rzedzian explored the 'rights of nature' in Ecuador.

2020 Dr Alessandro Boussalam studied the emotional geographies of gay Muslims in Belgium.

2020 Dr Quan Gao researched the geographies of post-secularism in Shenzhen.

2023 Dr Matt Richardson studied the importance of Jewish rituals for queer identities in Britain.

BA

GEO2103 Globalisation, Culture and Development (Convenor)

GEO1010 Interconnected World

GEO2111 Doing Geographical Research: Theory and Practice

GEO3099 Dissertation

MA

GEO8016 Philosophies in Human Geography

PhD workshops

Doing International Fieldwork in Development Contexts : A two-day workshop covering the key epistemological and methodological paradigms related to successfully planning and conducting fieldwork in a new country/context.

• Articles

  • Pande R, Bonnett A. . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2025, 50(3), e12730.
  • Hopkins P, Pande R, Ali R, Chambers C, Phillips R. . Area 2022, 54(3), 400-407.
  • Phillips R, Chambers C, Ali N, Pande R, Hopkins P. . Ethnic and Racial Studies 2020, 43(16), 1-19.
  • Ali N, Phillips R, Chambers C, Narkowicz K, Hopkins P, Pande R. . Sexualities 2020, 23(5-6), 775-792.
  • Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Hopkins P, Pande R, and Richardson M. . Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2019, 37(1), 17-23.
  • Burrell K, Hopkins P, Isakjee A, Lorne C, Nagel C, Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Pande R, Richardson M, Botterill K, Rogaly B. . Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2019, 37(1), 3-40.
  • Pande R, Pugh J, Megoran N. . ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 2019, 18(6), 1184-1206.
  • Chambers C, Phillips R, Nafhesa A, Hopkins P, Pande R. . Ethnicities 2018, 19(1), 66-94.
  • The Analogue University, Pande R, Pugh J. . Antipode 2017.
  • Morrish L, with the, Analogue University Writing Collective. . Australian Universities' Review 2017, 59(2), 23-35.
  • Pande R. . Social and Cultural Geography 2016, 17(3), 380-400.
  • Pande R. . Gender, Place and Culture 2014, 22(2), 172-187.
  • Pande R. . Geography Compass 2014, 8(2), 75-86.
  • Williams AJ, Jeffrey A, McConnell F, Megoran N, Askins K, Gill N, Nash C, Pande R. . Political Geography 2013, 34, 24-34.
  • Pande R, Jeffrey A, Megoran N, Young RG. . Journal of Geography in Higher Education 2013, 37(2), 220-229.

• Authored Books

  • Pande R. . New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2021.
  • Pande R, Stafford M. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2021.

• Book Chapters

  • Pande R. . In: Berta, P, ed. Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2023.
  • Pande R. . In: Wilson HF; Darling J, ed. Research Ethics for Human Geography. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020, pp.107-117.
  • Pande R. . In: The 缅北禁地 Social Geographies Collective; Pain, R; Hopkins, P, ed. Social Geographies An Introduction. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020, pp.133-142.
  • Richardson M, Pande R, Ridley G. . In: The 缅北禁地 Social Geographies Collective; Pain, R; Hopkins, P, ed. Social Geographies An Introduction. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020, pp.162-172.
  • Pande R. . In: Richardson D; Castree N; Goodchild, MF; Kobayashi A; Liu W, ed. International Encyclopedia of Geography. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Pande R. . In: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. 2022, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

• Edited Book

  • Hopkins P, 缅北禁地 Social Geographies Collective, Pain R, Shaw R, Gao Q, Bonnett A, Jones C, Richardson M, Rzedzian S, Benwell MC, Lin W, McAreavey R, Stenning A, Blazek M, Pande R, Najib K, Finlay R, Nayak A, Ridley G, Mearns G, Bonner-Thompson C, McLaughlin J, Boussalem A, Iqbal N, Heslop J, Jarvis H, Burrows R, Bambra C, Copeland A, Tate S, Campbell E, Thompson M, James A, Raynor R, Cunningham N, Powells G, Herbert J, Hocknell S, ed. . London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021.

• Editorials

  • Hope J, Freeman C, Maclean K, Pande R, Sou G. . Area 2022, 54(2), 154-158.
  • Pande R, Pugh J, Megoran N, The Analogue University. . Political geography 2019, 68, A3-A5.
  • Meer N, Nayak A, Pande R. . Sociological Research Online 2015, 20(3), 13.

• Exhibition

  • Pande R, Hartung G. Crossing Boundaries: Barriers Danced. 2010. 缅北禁地 upon TYne: ‘Interventions: six collaborative projects between social scientists and designers’ , The Ex-Libris gallery.

• Note

  • Painter J, Pande R, Macleod G, Matthews P, Hastings A, Durose C, Bovaird T. Response to the Scottish Governments Community Empowerment and Renewal Bill . 2013.

• Online Publications

  • Pande R. . London: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 2023. Available at: .
  • Pande R. . The Conversation Trust, 2021. Available at: .
  • Pande R, Stafford M. . 2021.
  • Pande R. . Blogspot, 2021. Available at: .

• Reports

  • Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell M, Hopkins P, Pande R, Richardson M. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2020.
  • Layrad A, Painter P, Pande R, Ramsden H, Fyfe H. Localism, Narrative and myth. AHRC report http://dro.dur.ac.uk/11998/, 2013.
  • Painter J, Pande R. Reframing citizen relationships with the public sector in a time of austerity: Community empowerment in Scotland and England. AHRC report, 2012.

• Reviews

  • Pande R. . Gender, Place and Culture 2017, 24(2), 301-302.
  • Painter J, Macleod G, Orton A, Dominelli L, Pande R. Connecting Localism to Community Empowerment. Systematic Review and critical synthesis for the AHRC 2011.
  • Pande R. Review of Gender and family among transnational professionals, edited by Ann Coles and Anne-Marie Fechter, New York and Oxford, Routledge, 2008. Gender, Place and Culture 2009, 16(1), 114-115.
  • Pande R. Imagining hybrid identities. The Geographical Journal 2007, 173(4), 393-394.