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School of Business and Management

Dr Shreya Sinha

Shreya

Senior Lecturer in Business and Society

Email: shreya.sinha@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Shreya Sinha is a political economist studying agricultural value chains and commodity markets, rural labour relations and ecological dimensions of agrarian change. Her work is focused on India, while being in conversation with other regions of the Global South, and is deeply historically informed. She has wide-ranging experience in intensive independent and collaborative field research in India.

Shreya has a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London, an MA in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a Bachelor’s in History from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. She did her postdoctoral research at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and has previously taught at the University of Reading, Cambridge, SOAS and LSE.

Teaching

Postgraduate

  • Global Supply Chain Management (BUSM091)

Shreya also teaches a module on 'Navigating Fieldwork' as part of the PhD training pathways at the School of Business and Management.

She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy/Advance HE.

Research

Research Interests:

Shreya’s research interests include debates in agrarian political economy, political ecology, political economy of development and economic geography, with a regional focus on India. More specifically, her recent and ongoing works are focused across the following inter-related areas:   

  • Agricultural commodity markets and value chains;
  • Agrarian capital and links with non-agricultural sectors;
  • Rural labour relations;
  • Environmental contexts of agrarian production.

Centre and Group Membership:

  • Co-Director, Centre on Labour Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP) 
  • Member, QMUL South Asia Forum


Publications 

Journal Articles

 


Book Chapters 

  • Sinha, S. and Vira, B. 2021. ‘The Rural Non-Farm Economy in India Revisited: From Rural Industrialization to Rural Entrepreneurs’, in Murat Arsel, Anirban Dasgupta and Servaas Storm (ed.) Reclaiming Development Studies: Essays for Ashwani Saith, Anthem Press.
  • Sinha, S. 2024. ‘Punjab’s Mandis, Agrarian Life and the Farmers’ Protest’, in Christine Moline and David Singh (ed.) The Indian Farmers’ Protest of 2020-21, Routledge.


Book reviews
 

  • Sinha, S. 2016. ‘Review of ‘Mapping India's Capitalism: Old and New Regions’, edited by Elisabetta Basile, Barbara Harriss-White and Christine Lutringer, and ‘Middle India and Urban–Rural Development: Four Decades of Change’, edited by Barbara Harriss-White’. Journal of Agrarian Change 16 (3), 507-511 https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12157 

 
Other publications (selected) 

Supervision

Co-supervisor:

Public Engagement

Shreya has been interviewed by media organizations such as BBC Radio, CarbonBrief and Business Insider, and has written for popular platforms such as The Conversation, on her areas of research expertise, among other forms of public engagement.

She is an editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14710366

She is also an Affiliate of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

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