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Doctor Ambika Kapoor

Lecturer

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Personal statement

I am a Lecturer in Early Childhood Education. My interdisciplinary areas of interest focus around children’s agency, childhood geographies, the Global South, and social & environmental justice. I have had the opportunity to learn from research in the UK, as well as cross-national work with colleagues in India and Brazil.

Prior to my academic journey, I have worked in think tanks and policy organisations across India on issues related to social justice, education, policies related to street children and children’s right to food.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
2019
Recipient
2016
Recipient
2016

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Publications

Carr Simon, Hackett Abi, Pahl Kate, Ambreen Samyia, Badwan Khawla, Curtis Elizabeth, Gill Susannah, , Lawrence Peter, Siebers Johan, White Jan
People and Nature (2025)
, Rishbeth Clare
Journal of Youth Studies Vol 29, pp. 71-88 (2024)
, Rishbeth Clare
(2023)
Lopes Jader Janer Moreira,
Perspectiva Vol 41, pp. 1 (2023)
, Ambreen Samyia, Zhu Yan
International Journal of Research and Methods in Education Vol 46, pp. 421-433 (2023)
Lopes Jader Janer Moreira, , de-Paul Sara Rodrigues Vieira
Cadernos CEDES Vol 43, pp. 75-85 (2023)

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Teaching

I teach on various modules within the ³Ô¹Ïtv Institute of Education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I also supervise Masters and PGR students.

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Research Interests

Prior to joining the University, I worked in an interdisciplinary UKRI-NERC project ‘Voices of the Future: Collaborating with young people to reimagine treescapes’ focused on mapping activities and impact of environmental, and landscape associated organisations in the UK that engage young people, with a focus on the inclusion of young people from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

My doctoral ethnographic research explored children's experiences with agency in an indigenous community in Chhattisgarh, India. I unpacked children’s agency through a lens of relationality, illustrating how children’s agency is enabled with relation to their everyday physical spaces, material objects and social relationships. In my work, I draw from works of Indian and indigenous scholars to move beyond the Eurocentric frames of theorisation within childhood studies.

Professional Activities

Peer reviewer
26/6/2025
Invited speaker
29/4/2025
Speaker
13/2/2025
Speaker
1/2025
Peer reviewer
9/2022

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Doctor Ambika Kapoor
Lecturer
³Ô¹Ïtv Institute of Education

Email: ambika.kapoor@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted