Uma Pradhan

Uma Pradhan is a Lecturer at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, where she is a member of the Centre for Education and International Development. Her work focuses on cultural and material dimensions of education, especially in relation to inequality, diversity, and technology. She is the author of Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education and the Nepali Nation (Cambridge University Press, 2020), as well as a co-editor of Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Nepal: Educational Transformations and New Avenues of Learning’ (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Rethinking education in the context of post-pandemic South Asia: Challenges and possibilities (Routledge, 2023).


Affiliation: UCL Institute of Education, UK


BAICE Role: Co-Editor of Compare


Bio: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=UPRAD41