Ratha is an ex-lawyer working in higher education.

Alongside her ESRC-funded PhD, teaching at King’s and other scholarly activity, Ratha is employed in a part-time academic post at the University of East London. There, she has held Programme Director roles and worked on curriculum design and development, in both undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes.

Research

An active researcher and educator, Ratha’s scholarly interests focus on aspects of educational inequity that produce disparities in attainment for different learner groups.  

Her doctoral work investigates the causes of the degree-award gap experienced by racially-minoritised students. Ratha’s PhD study deploys a Bourdieusian analysis of the gathered qualitative data, and is supervised by Dr Ayo Mansaray, Professor Meg Maguire and Dr Emma Towers.

Elsewhere, Ratha researches the elements of effective pedagogy that can support the progress and engagement of multilingual learners with English as an Additional Language.

For more information, visit Ratha's research profile.