Personal profile
Research interests
Anish is a former Youth and Community Worker involved and interested in police and border abolitionist community organising. They previously completed a Masters in Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity at Birkbeck College.
Now a recipient of Northumbria's Research Development Fund, Anish is undertaking a PhD in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences. Their research aims to construct a critical genealogy of radical Black, Asian and antiracist defence collectives resisting policing and immigration control in 1980s London. Anish's research pays particular attention to the emergence of such resistance and examines their networks of interdependence, relationships of care and emotional geographies.
Their thesis is supervised by:
Dr Sarah Hughes
Dr Paul Griffin
Dr Kathryn Cassidy
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
MA, Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity, Birkbeck University of London
Award Date: 1 Sept 2019
BSc (Hons), Nutrition, Bournemouth University
Award Date: 1 Jul 2014