Dr Rekha Dewakar

The Department of Politics is delighted to welcome a new member of faculty growing the department and extending the range of research and teaching.

Dr. Rekha Diwakar has joined the department as a Lecturer in Politics and adds to the department a new research and teaching focus on Indian politics. Before joining, Rekha was Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London. She completed her PhD in Political Science at the London School of Economics & Political Science where she also previously received an MSc in Public Administration and Public Policy and an MRes in Political Science. She comes to us with a range of teaching experience in politics, public policy and research methods undergraduate and post-graduate courses in the UK at UCL, LSE, King’s College, Brunel University and Royal Holloway.

Her research interests include Indian and comparative politics and public policy, civil service reforms in developing countries, and research methods in political science. She is also a Research Associate at LSE’s Public Policy Group and on the Editorial Board of ‘Open Journal of Political Science’. Before embarking on an academic career in the UK, she worked as a fast-track civil servant in India where she contributed towards economic policy-making and tax administration.

Back to news list