Katy Gardner

Professor Katy Gardner holds a position in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her expertise focuses on globalisation, migration, and economic change in Bangladesh and its diasporic communities in the UK. She completed her training at Cambridge and LSE, previously working at Sussex University before joining LSE in 2013.

Her research integrates anthropological methods with development studies, including long-term fieldwork in Bangladesh and UK-based transnational communities. Notable works include Global Migrants, Local Lives (1995), Age, Narrative and Migration (2002), and Discordant Development (2023), examining corporate impact on rural communities and transnational migration's gendered dimensions.

Current projects explore couples’ counseling, marriage mediation, and precarity in Bangladesh. She co-edited a special journal volume on land and development in South Asia and led research on Bangladeshi children’s transnational experiences through arts-based methods. She actively supervises PhD candidates interested in anthropology, South Asia, and development studies.