Nata Duvvury

Nata Duvvury, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Director, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway

Prof Nata Duvvury is a development expert with research interests in gender, labour markets and welfare state, gendered impacts of globalization, economic costs of gender based violence, civil society and global governance, and social mobilization. She has done extensive work on violence against women, and in particular establishing the economic and social consequences of violence for women, families, communities and society at large. She is actively involved in the Anti-Racism Committee in the Office of the VPEDI at University of Galway and recently completely research titled Intersectional Discrimination Index: Understanding Student Experience of Intersectional Discrimination at the University of Galway.