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Claire Crawford is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Politics, University of York, holding an ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship through the White Rose DTP. She previously served as an Associate Lecturer at York in 2022, co-convening the MA in Contemporary History and International Politics.
Her educational background includes:
- BA in History & Italian from the University of Leeds
- MA in Contemporary India from King’s India Institute
- PhD in Political Economy from King’s College London, supervised by Professor Humeira Iqtidar, Dr Poornima Paidipaty and Dr Paolo Gerbaudo
Claire's research sits at the intersection of social movements, digital politics, and postcolonial theory. Her doctoral work was a digital political ethnographic study with feminist activists in northern India, exploring identity, representation, and governance. She brings postcolonial theories into conversation with social movement theories. Currently, she is investigating how social movements experience and navigate digital space, with a focus on publishing her PhD research and developing grant applications for larger projects.
Her scholarly contributions bridge feminist perspectives with digital activism, examining libertarianism in UK anti-lockdown movements and structural precarity in academic labor. Recent publications analyze freedom discourse and ableism through decolonial frameworks, demonstrating consistent engagement with intersectional power dynamics.
Scientific awards and fellowships:
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (White Rose DTP)
- Leverhulme Trust PhD Studentship
Claire has secured competitive funding for her doctoral and postdoctoral research, with current grant development focused on digital governance of social movements in India. She maintains active collaborations through the Politics of Style Collective and King's College London Global South Research Group, while supporting student initiatives like the Anti-Colonial Reading Group.
Her research infrastructure includes digital ethnographic fieldwork networks in northern India and partnerships with Global South activist collectives, positioning her for expanded investigations into technology-mediated social mobilization.
