My key research interests include ethics, morality, culture, and embodiment. I adopt a highly interdisciplinary approach in my work, drawing from influences in philosophy and sociology. My present aim in simple terms is to embed what are generally seen as universal categories (e.g., ethics) into embodied and culturally specific categories through a practice-based lens.
My interest in practice necessitates taking a complex view of phenomena. It has led me to interrogate how macro-social and meso-organisational aspects interact, shape, modify, and orient individual embodied stances towards choice and action—particularly the ethical dimension—in diverse social worlds. This links to my concern with organisational technologies such as performance management, which have the power to reconfigure local modes of being by rewiring goals, values, interests, and so on to an instrumental logic in market-driven economies.
The broader goal of my work is to surface culturally situated modes of embodied being, seeing, knowing, and in this way, reclaim these modes from the universalising logic of dominant epistemologies and representations. This is also to say that I have a broader interest in the question of difference/otherness, and the performativities that go into the production and maintenance of difference/otherness (including the underlying politics).
My current work builds on the practice-theoretical perspective to develop a more nuanced understanding of ethical decision-making in practice. I also aim to further a sociological understanding of ethical decision-making/action in the Indian socio-cultural-historical context (this is an empirical counterpart of what I am doing theoretically).
Recently I have also been grappling with the question of how to use qualitative research methods to access the embodied dimension.
Key interests: ethics, morality, culture, practical wisdom/phronesis, embodiment, difference, performativity
Theoretical approaches/interests: practice theories (particularly Bourdieu), phenomenology, Aristotle’s virtue ethics
PhD (Lancaster), MA, BCom
Prior to moving into academia, I worked in various capacities in the information technology and digital communications spaces. My most recent stint was as Deputy General Manager, Group Corporate Communications, Tata group (2011-2016).
Module Convenor:
CNMNGT110: Introduction to Management and Leadership
CNOWT314: Ethical Responsibility in Business
Member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College (PRC)