:Parvati Raghuram

Raghuram was born in Shillong, in Meghalaya state in India. She then migrated around the country, but spent the largest proportion of her childhood in Delhi.{{Cite web |date=2016-06-09 |title=Interview with Parvati Raghuram |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/interview-parvati-raghuram-open-university |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}

She then attended the University of Delhi's School of Economics, between 1982 and 1985, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts in Geography. Between 1985 and 1987, she studied a Master of Arts in Geography, also at the University of Delhi, and was awarded the qualification.{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1841-5613 |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=orcid.org}}

Her and her spouse moved to the United Kingdom together in 1987.

Raghuram completed her PhD in geography at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1991. Her thesis was entitled: Coping strategies of domestic workers: A study of three settlements in the Delhi Metropolitan region, India.{{Cite web |last=Raghuram |first=Parvati |title=Locating Care Ethics Beyond the Global North |url=https://ethicsofcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Parvati-Raghuram-DISLOCATING-CARE-ETHICS-PLACE-AND-RELATIONALITY-IN-A-GLOBALISING-WORLD.pdf |access-date=11 May 2025 |website=Ethics of Care}}

Starting in 1994, Raghuram was a lecturer in geography at Nottingham Trent University.

By 2005, Raghuram had been one of the editors on special editions, of journals, that focussed on migration and gender.{{Cite web |last1=Kofman |first1=Eleanor |last2=Raghuram |first2=Parvati |last3=Merefield |first3=Matt |date=May 2005 |title=Gendered Migration - Towards gender sensitive policies in the UK |url=https://irregular-migration.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/migrationwp6gender.pdf |access-date=11 May 2025 |website=Irregulator Migration}} Starting in 2005, Raghuram worked at the Open University.{{Cite web |title=OUPPS (Open University People Profile System) |url=https://profiles.open.ac.uk/parvati-raghuram |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=profiles.open.ac.uk |language=en}}

In 2013, Raghuram was Reader in Geography at the Open University.{{Cite web |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000227097 |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=unesdoc.unesco.org}}

In 2016, Raghuram was awarded the Murchison Award by the Royal Geographical Society.{{Cite web |title=Parvati Raghuram |url=https://www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migration/People/cerc-scholars-of-excellence/parvati-raghuram/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) |language=en}} She was the first woman of colour to receive the award.

In she co-wrote a research paper focusing on female migrants from India to the EU;{{Cite web |last=Parvati |first=Raghuram |date=June 2022 |title=The Open University |url=https://oro.open.ac.uk/84559/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=oro.open.ac.uk |language=en}} the research paper was for a project called the European Union-UK Cooperation and Dialogue on Migration and Mobility, by the International Labour Office, which is now called the International Labour Organization and is a UN agency.{{Cite web |last=Raghuram |first=Parvati |title=Indian women migrating to the EU |url=https://oro.open.ac.uk/84559/1/Women%20Migration%20Report_Digital%20READY%2020%2007%202022.pdf |website=Open University}}

By May 2025, Raghuram had authored reports for several UN agencies and thinktanks,{{Cite web |title=Parvati Raghuram {{!}} Decolonising Peace Education in Africa |url=https://www.decolonising-education-for-peace-africa.org/meet-the-team/parvati-raghuram |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=www.decolonising-education-for-peace-africa.org}} and her academic output included nine research pieces, most of which are research articles, co-authored with academic geographers Clare Madge and Patricia Noxolo.{{Cite web |title=Parvati Raghuram |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XYhrsGkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=scholar.google.com}}

As of May 2025, Raghuram is Professor of Geography and Migration at the Open University, and her research focuses on how the world is being reshaped by the geographical movement of goods, people and intellectual outputs. Much of her work has focused on changing the theorisations of migration of more educated migrants and of international students. Also as of May 2025 she is involved in a number of research projects focusing on people migrating from one place in Africa to another.{{Cite web |last=CrossMigration |title=Parvati Raghuram Expert Profile |url=https://migrationresearch.com/experts/parvati-raghuram/334 |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=CrossMigration}}

She has written for OpenDemocracy{{Cite web |date=2020-05-11 |title=Home |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/parvati-raghuram/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=openDemocracy |language=en}} and been interviewed by the website Womanthology.

She has also been the research director and postgraduate director of the OpenSPACE research centre;{{Cite web |last=Tatton |first=Fiona |date=2017-01-11 |title=How is India using IT to empower its female tech workforce and can the UK learn to do the same? - Parvati Raghuram, Professor of Geography and Migration at the Open University - Womanthology |url=https://www.womanthology.co.uk/india-using-empower-female-tech-workforce-can-uk-learn-parvati-raghuram-professor-geography-migration-open-university/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=Womanthology: Homepage |language=en-US}} the centre focuses on researching inclusivity in accessing outdoor spaces.{{Cite web |title=Welcome to OPENspace… |url=https://www.openspace.eca.ed.ac.uk/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=OPENspace |language=en-GB}}

In a 2016 interview, Raghuram stated that regulations relating to migration were part of the reason for her having to be employed part-time for several years in the early part of her academic career.

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