Dr Rohit K Dasgupta
I am a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the University of Glasgow. Prior to this I was Senior Lecturer in Global Communication and Development at Loughborough University where I remain as Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. I am also a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. I was also a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and Fordham University.
As an ethnographer my work cuts across several disciplines with particular interests in communication and social change, cultural industries, protest culture, queer politics and South Asia.I am currently working on several projects on queer migration, media and nation in India, COVID assemblages and India's cultural industries.
I am also currently a Labour and Cooperative Party Councillor in the London Borough of Newham. I was first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. I served as Commissioner for Social Integration and Equalities from 2019 until 2022. I was appointed Deputy Cabinet Member for Social Justice and Culture in 2023. I was the Labour Party parliamentary candidate for East Hampshire in 2017 and also a Labour Party MEP Candidate for South East England in 2019.
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Sappho National Queer Conference: Praxis, Politics and Possibilities 2017
Kolkata, India- 15-17 September, 2017
Public and Academic Engagement
In conversation with Catherine Fletcher, Jonathan Dollimore and Margaret Reynolds talking about my latest monograph on the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking program. Click on the image to listen
Presenting research on virtual intimacies at the Queering Paradigms Conference in Canterbury Christ Church University, 2015
In Conversation with Mobeen Azhar on BBC Asian Network discussing being Asian and in politics.
Questioning Racism in the India Diaspora: Cultural Perspectives" was a panel convened by the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) of Lund University on June 16, 2020. It featured panelists Amrita Ghosh, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Aruni Kashyap and Bhakti Shringarpure.
The Centre for Studies in Gender & Sexuality, Ashoka University presents its penultimate session of Summer of ISHQ 2021, featuring Professor Sam McBean and Professor Rohit Dasgupta, conversing on 'Is sex tech-savvy?'
Dr Rohit K Dasgupta speaks from Bengal to a Policy Without Borders webinar
Dr Rohit K Dasgupta speaks about Windrush Day on the Vanessa Feltz show
Media Appearances
Cllr Rohit K Dasgupta talks to BBC Radio Asian Network about why the XR protest in Canning Town station sent out a wrong signal.
Dr Rohit K Dasgupta discusses COVID 19 and its disproportionate impact on LGBTQ in UK and South Asia
Cllr Rohit K Dasgupta gives a speech in Full council about Trans Day of remembrance
Cllr Rohit K Dasgupta speaks of abuse, bullying and intimidation faced by elected representatives.
Dr Rohit K Dasgupta talks to BBC's Catrin Nye on the Victoria Derbyshire show on inclusive RSE and the campaign of misinformation and lies spread by anti RSE protestors in Newham
Cllr Rohit K Dasgupta speaks to Eddie Nestor on BBC News about anti RSE protests