Uma Kambhampati

Uma Kambhampati is a Professor of Economics and Head of the School of Politics Economics and International Relations at the University of Reading.

She obtained her BA, MPhil and PhD degrees in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Uma’s research relates to inequalities, especially by gender.

In recent years, she has worked on women’s empowerment and well-being including women’s labour market participation and life satisfaction. Over the last 2 decades, she has also worked on issues relating to childhood inequalities, particularly in relation to child work and schooling participation, inequalities between girls and boys as well as inequalities across social and religious groups. She has published extensively in all these areas. Details of her publications can be found here.

She has supervised 17 PhD students to completion. Uma is an Editorial Board member of Feminist Economics and one of the Editors of the European Journal of Development Research. She is a member of Council of the Development Studies Association, the Royal Statistical Society and the University of Reading. She is also a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the GCRF.

Uma is a Co-I on the Generation Delta project being funded by Research England and the OfS to improve the access and retention of BAME PGR students in academia. Uma has supervised 17 doctoral candidates to successful completion to date and examined more than 30 doctoral degrees in the UK and internationally.