Dr Rishita Nandagiri is a Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine, and Deputy Programme Director, MSc in Global Health, Social Justice and Public Policy.

Prior to joining King’s, she held postdoctoral positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2020-2021, Rishita was an ESRC funded postdoctoral fellow at LSE’s Department of Methodology where she worked with feminist collectives in India to co-produce visual resources on abortion and abortion care-seeking. She has worked with several feminist collectives and advocacy groups globally, and has consulted for multilateral organisations including the WHO and UNFPA.

Rishita currently serves on the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population’s Scientific Panel on Abortion Research and is a council member of the British Society for Population Studies. She is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Development, LSE. Rishita is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research 

• Abortion
• Reproduction
• Gender
• Global Health
• Qualitative Methods

Rishita’s interdisciplinary research focuses on gender, abortion and reproductive (in)justices in the Global South.

Her work is underpinned by feminist and reproductive justice approaches, interrogating how power and politics manifest and are wielded at individual, interpersonal, community, and macro levels.

Her recent work has included critiquing medico-legal approaches to self-managed abortion, examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on abortion access, and (re) conceptualising “safety” and “risk” in abortion and reproduction.

Teaching

Rishita currently convenes two postgraduate modules:

• 7SSHM616: Critical Bioethics
• 7SSHM503: Designing Qualitative Research for Social Science and Health

Further details

See Rishita's research profile