Regina Hansda is a Lecturer in Development and Justice at the Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment (RIGLE), School of Geosciences. Regina is an interdisciplinary social scientist and her research interests are on the politics of food, agriculture, gender, environment, and development in India/South Asia. Her current research interests indigenous food, and indigenous education and she is developing her work in that direction. Regina is committed to questions of social and ecological justice and draws extensively from critical development theory, political ecology, post/de/anti-colonial theory, feminist methodologies, and Indigenous epistemologies for both her research and teaching.

Before joining academia, Regina worked for more than seven years in the environment and development sector as a development professional. She has worked on issues of poverty, inequality, rural livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and climate adaptation amongst others in different states in India across a range of institutions—NGOs, government amongst others including the UN(FAO) in Rome. Regina is from the Santal tribe of Jharkhand in Eastern India, and she is the Co-Founder of the Adivasi Mentorship Network—a voluntary collective that mentors Adivasi (indigenous) students to access higher education.

Geography of Social Justice Research Group; Development Geographies Research Group (RGS); Centre for South Asian Studies

PGT - Masters in Environment & Development Programme

• Course Organiser: Development and Justice (PGGE11295)
• Course Organiser: Professional Skills in Environment and Development (PGGE11267)

UGT - MA in Human Geography

• Co-teaching - Geographies of Economies, Environment, and Politics (GEEP-GEGR08017)

Guest teaching (UGT)

• Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World (SSPS08012)
• The Social Life of Food (SCIL10081)

• Member, Research Ethics and Integrity Committee (School of Geosciences)
• Treasurer, Development Geographies and Research Group (DevGRG) -Royal Geographical SocietY-Institute of British Geographers