PRIYASHA KAUL - RESEARCH ASSISTANT Priyasha Kaul is a Research Assistant at the Centre for the study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol. Since 2007, I have been working with Paul Statham on the European Social Survey (ESSi: NA4): Developing Event Reporting project, which focuses on developing a methodological tool for news event analysis in association with the Descartes Award winning European Social Survey. Before this, I worked with Professor Harriet Bradley at the University of Bristol on an European Social Fund (ESF) research project for the Equal Opportunities Commission entitled Workplace cultures and ethnic minority women: what does and does not work? undertaken jointly by the University of Bristol and Queen Mary University, London. I have also worked as an independent researcher with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies-CSDS (Delhi) and the Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi. I am currently pursuing my doctorate in sociology at Bristol University. I also have first class master's degrees in sociology and management from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and the University of Bristol, respectively. My wider research interests include gender, media analysis, multiculturalism, globalisation and contemporary social change. Address: Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UQ. Email: Priyasha.Kaul@bristol.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)117 3310611 Publications. Kaul, P. (2007). Equal Opportunities Commission report 'Ethnic Minority Women and Workplace Cultures: what works and what doesn't' (with Professor Harriet Bradley, Professor Geraldine Healy and Cynthia Forson') (Available online http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cred/docs/6521.pdf). Review of Pramod K. Nayar (2006) 'Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis and Politics', Sage Publication, for Sociology, Aug 2007, Vol. 41 (4) (with Sophia Acord, University of Exeter). Conference- Research Papers. Kaul, P. (2010). Exploring Indianness in bollywood cinema: Nationhood and the diaspora at the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association's (MECCSA) annual interdisciplinary international conference at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), January 2010. Kaul, P. (2009). Exploring 'Indianness' in Bollywood cinema: diaspora and the new Indian modernity at the AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme and CRONEM annual conference 'Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions' at the University of Surrey, June 2009. Kaul, P. (2008). 'Exploring 'Anwar': Religion, identity and nationalism' at the 'Representing Islam: Comparative Perspectives Conference', at the University of Manchester in association with the department of Political, International and Policy Studies (PIPS), University of Surrey, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), September 2008. (http://www.surrey.ac.uk/politics/conferences/archive/Islam_Conference/documents/PriyashaKaul.doc). Kaul, P. (2008). 'Creating the 'other'?: Representations of religion, identity and nationalism in India' at the 20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS), University of Manchester, July 2008. Kaul, P. (2008). 'Making of a 'Nation': Bollywood films and the Indian Nationalist Project' (Invited Guest Lecture) at London South Bank University, April 2008. (www.lsbu.ac.uk/international/documents/bollywoodUG.pdf). Kaul, P. (2007). 'The Policy and Praxis of Diversity: Lived reality of the workplace' at the British Sociological Association's (BSA) Annual 'Work, Employment and Society (WES) Conference - Beyond these Shores: Sinking or Swimming in the Globalised New Economy?', King's College, University of Aberdeen, September 2007. Kaul, P. (2007). 'Gender, Ethnicity and Power: Exploring everyday mediations' , East meets West - International Postgraduate and Academic Conference Gender 2007, Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, July 2007. Kaul, P. (2007). 'The Policy and Praxis of Diversity: Lived Reality of the Workplace', Seventh International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Amsterdam, July 2007. Kaul, P. (2007). 'The Policy and Praxis of Diversity: Lived Reality of the Workplace', Moving Forward, Annual College of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen, June 2007. Kaul, P. (2007). 'Muslim Women's Labour Market Participation Rates: Economic, Familial and Cultural Impacts' (with Professor Harriet Bradley), The Bristol Institute of Public Affairs, University of Bristol, February 2007. Kaul, P. (2007). 'Managing Equalities' (with Professor Harriet Bradley), Department of Management, University of Bristol, January 2007. Kaul, P. (2006). 'Gender, Violence and Exclusionary Urbanism', Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds. Kaul, P. (2005). 'And the Earth Still Shakes: Communal violence and exclusionary Urbanism', Sarai- Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Other activities- July 2009- 'Theory for a Global Age: Postcolonial and Cosmopolitan perspectives' - early career summer school in social and political thought at the University of Warwick. May 2008- ESRC workshop 'Multi-modal qualitative research' at Cardiff University, organised by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. April 2008- ESRC workshop 'Using new technologies in qualitative research' at Cardiff University, organised by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. July- August 2007- Participant at the 'RECON Summer School on Advanced Methods and Techniques in Media Analysis' at the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS), University of Bremen, Germany, organised jointly by ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Bremen, Germany. http://www.reconproject.eu/projectweb/portalproject/BremenSummerSchool07.html July 2007- Panel presentation of research findings for the Equal Opportunities Commission at the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED), Queen Mary University, London. (http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cred/Events/July_2007/22911.html).