Shruti Chaudhry

Shruti Chaudhry (she/her) is a Chancellor’s Fellow in sociology. Her current research focuses on the family and intimate life of minority ethnic ageing adults in Scotland. Her previous (doctoral) research on marriage migration in India explored the gendering of intimacy in a Global South arranged marriage context.

Key Research Interests include:

• Families and Intimate Relationships
• Ageing and the life-course
• Care and Caring
• Gender
• Race and Ethnicity
• Migration and transnationalism
• South Asia/South Asian Diasporas
• Ethnography and Qualitative Research

Her recent research outputs include:

• 2021 [2022 Paperback]: Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy and Women’s Lives in rural North India. State University of New York Press (SUNY, Albany: New York) book series Genders in the Global South. Series editors: Debra A. Castillo and Shelley Feldman.
• 2022: “Mid-and-Later Life Cross-Sex Friendships in Minority Ethnic Contexts: Insights from Scotland”, Sociological Research Online, 27(4), 947–963.
• 2019: “For how long can your pīharwāle intervene?: Accessing natal kin support in rural North India”, Modern Asian Studies 53 (3).
• 2019: “‘Flexible’ caste boundaries: cross-regional marriage as mixed marriage in rural north India”, Contemporary South Asia 27 (2).
• 2018: “‘Now it is difficult to get married’: Contextualising bachelorhood and cross- regional marriage in a North Indian village”, in Sharada Srinivasan and Shuzhuo Li (eds.). Scarce Women and Surplus Men: Macro Demographics versus Local Dynamics, Cham: Springer.