I am a sociologist, writing and teaching in the broad areas of Global Inequality, Neoliberalism's impact on Human Society and Culture, Diaspora and Transnational Issues in North America, Gender and Caste Based Inequalities, and Postcolonial Societies and Cultures. I have more than twelve years of experience in academic research and teaching. Prior to joining academia, I spent five years working as an applied social researcher in different parts of South Asia, namely India and Bangladesh.

I am an Associate Professor of Intellectual and Cultural History at Aalborg University in Denmark, where I head the Language and International Studies programs. I have authored the books "13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights: Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics" (2017) and "Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections: 13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights" (2020), as well as a range of other books and articles on human rights, culture, and international politics. Seeing students and outreach as the focal point of my work, recent projects include a policy point-counterpoint with students in International Social Science Review (2021) on "Should Political Representation in a Nation-State be Reserved only for Citizens, or Should it Encompass all Residents Regardless of Status within a National Polity?"

Dr Katharine Jewitt is an Associate Lecturer at The Open University in four faculties at The Open University (Business and Law; Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics; Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies and The Centre for Inclusion and Collaborative Partnership) tutoring on access, undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She also works as a Validator with the Digital Schools Company to guide and implement its ongoing strategy to promote digital skills in Nursery / Primary / Special Education / Secondary schools & organisations.

I am an associate professor at the Department of Politics and Society at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. My main research interest is with issues of inclusion and exclusion, populism and democracy in Europe and beyond, forms of political extremisms and civil society counter-reactions hereto. I have conducted studies on the right-wing populism in Denmark, Italy and Austria, recently also considering the mainstream parties’ counter-strategies at national and EU level, the role of Islam in the West and more broadly the civil society responses to growing anti-immigration, and populist ethno-nationalism. For more info: https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/100658/publications/