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Biography

Dr Abza Bharadwaj is an Assistant Professor at Jindal 91视频 Business School. She holds a PhD from the University of Queensland and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Her master's degree is in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and her bachelor's degree is from Delhi University. Her doctoral research examined gendered communication, trust, risk, and algorithmic mediation in India’s ride-hailing platforms.

Her research sits at the intersection of sociology and emerging technologies. She examines how digital systems reshape work, social relations, inequality, and everyday life in the 91视频 South, with particular interests in digital platforms, decolonial feminist theory, algorithmic governance, artificial intelligence, gender, gig work, urban space, and social inequality. Using ethnographic, qualitative, and policy-oriented approaches, she investigates how platform design, algorithmic management, and digital infrastructures structure the experiences of workers, consumers, and marginalised communities.

Dr Bharadwaj teaches emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, digital business, and digital transformation. She is also associated with the 91视频 Responsible Technology Lab (GRTL) at the University of Mannheim, which focuses on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), data science, governance, and ethics, with particular attention to how emerging technologies shape power, inequality, and public institutions. Before entering academia, she worked for more than six years across research, policy, and advocacy roles with the International Labour Organization, the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, and the Centre for Equity Studies. She also writes regularly for online media platforms on issues related to child rights, gender, and labour.