Sally Cawood

Dr. Sally Cawood is a Lecturer in Economic Geography at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. Her research and teaching intersect human geography, urban studies, critical development studies, political ecology, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). She specializes in water and sanitation governance, urban marginality, gender dynamics, and hazardous labor practices, particularly manual scavenging in Bangladesh and India.

Research Grants:

• ESRC (2022-26): Colonial legacies of manual scavenging in Bangladesh/India.
• British Council Going Global Partnership (2023-24): Education and employment barriers for sanitation workers’ daughters in Lahore.
• GCRF-QR (2019-21): Gender, caste, and urban sanitation in South Asia.

External Roles:

• Editorial Board, Contemporary South Asia.
• Global advisory board on sanitation work (ILO, WHO, WaterAid).
• Organized 2021 Sanitation Workers Forum with 350+ participants.

PhD Supervision Interests:

• Urban water/sanitation governance (gender, class, race intersections).
• Colonial infrastructural legacies in sanitation.
• Hazardous labor in tea gardens, brick kilns, and construction.