Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health

Kirat Randhawa

Kirat Randhawa received her PhD from Sussex University in November 2014. Her thesis is entitled ‘Illness experiences and healthcare use among recent low-income international migrants in a UK city’. The thesis used the concepts of lived experience, illness narrative, patient experience, and perceived and structural discrimination to analyse interviews with migrants. Kirat has ongoing research interests in health inequality, access to health technologies, and the intersections between illness, ethnicity, migration history and gender.  As part of her ESRC-funded collaborative doctoral studies programme Kirat gained an MSc Degree in Cross-Cultural and Comparative Social Research Methods.  Previous degrees in Pathobiology (BSc Hons) and Nutrition (MSc) led to work as a Nutritionist in India, Ethiopia and Nepal. Kirat subsequently went on to train as a Health Promotion Specialist in the UK.  Her UK-based work has included leading community health projects related to mental illness and participating in mental health promotion for marginalised people.