Gitanjali Patel

• MA Social Anthropology from SOAS, University of London
• BA (Hons) Spanish and Portuguese, University of Oxford

My PhD research follows on from seven years running the organisation Shadow Heroes which runs translation workshops at schools in England which engage young people in critical thinking about language and power.

My research proposes translation as a critical pedagogical method to engage young people in transformative questions around language and power. It will be based on participatory ethnographic fieldwork over one year, in 2023, with two schools in Brazil.

I am a Wolfson scholar.