Rachana Upadhyaya, a Research Fellow at SIAS holds a PhD in Disaster Sociology and is an honorary research associate at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, England. Her work draws on ethnographic methods to examine how risk is constructed, governed, and experienced in urban margins. She has completed a Double Master’s Degree in Gender and Women’s Studies from University of Hull, U.K., and University of Lodz, Poland as a part of prestigious GEMMA program. She is a visiting lecturer in M.A in Gender Studies Program, Tribhuvan University and is working in collaboration with the Gender Studies Department to institute feminist movement through academia. Rachana also has more than 5 years’ experience of designing, implementing and monitoring women empowerment projects in Nepal. She is particularly interested in research that tries to understand the intersection of gender, disaster, and resilience.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Pradhan, M. S., Upadhyaya, R., Khatri, D. B., Banjade, M. R., Das, D., Maskey, G., & Acharya, S. (2026). An “ecosystem of support” approach for women’s economic empowerment through agriculture and forestry based enterprises: a conceptual framework. Gender, Technology and Development, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2025.2607964