Background

About

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (Sociology) scribing online responses and resistance to environmental loss and extinction. Previously ethnographer of interdisciplinary knowledge production and university-business collaborations. 

Education

• 2016: PhD in Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen; affiliated with dot.rural RCUK Digital Economy Hub and The James Hutton Institute
• 2011: Master's in Sociology (M. Soc. Sci.), National University of Singapore
• 2007: Bachelor's (first class honours) in Sociology (B. Soc. Sci. Hons), National University of Singapore

Previous posts

• 2016-2018: Postdoc research associate - lead ethnographer on Creative Fuse North East
  
• 2016: Visiting lecturer at ESCP Europe (Introduction to Psychology and Sociology)
• 2016: Researcher, Citizen Sense project, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
• 2013: Research assistant for National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) follow-on Work Package Report 6: Shared, plural and cultural values of ecosystems
• 2011: Research assistant to A/P Misha Petrovic, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
• 2010: Independent researcher, INSEAD Asia
• 2006-2007: Research assistant to A/P Volker Schmidt, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

Awards/funding

• 2019-2022: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
  
• 2017-2018: British Sociological Association early career forum regional event fund
• 2017: AHRC-Creative Fuse North East Innovation Pilot Fund
• 2012 - 2016: University of Aberdeen scholarship to undertake PhD studentship
• 2008 - 2010:  National University of Singapore Research Scholarship
  
• 2008 -2009: President’s Graduate Fellowship, National University of Singapore
• 2007: Rosie Heng-Ko Poh Choo Gold Medal (best female Sociology student in the Examination for the degree of Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours, National University of Singapore)
• 2006: Cambridge Scholarship (National University of Singapore)
• 2005: Max Lewis Scholarship (National University of Singapore)
• 2004: Shaw Foundation Scholarship (National University of Singapore)
• 2002-2005: Dean's List awardee 5 consecutive semesters (National University of Singapore)

Languages

• Malay (advanced spoken/written)
• Mandarin (intermediate spoken)
• Hindi (intermediate spoken)
• Arabic (beginner spoken/written)

Publications

• Verma A. A Clean-Up Crew for the Messes and Excesses of Neoliberalism. Social Science Space: SAGE, 2018. Available at: https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2018/04/audrey-verma-a-clean-up-crew-for-the-messes-and-excesses-of-neoliberalism/.
• Verma A, Van der Wal R, Fischer A. New Technological Interventions in Conservation Conflicts: Countering Emotions and Contested Knowledge. Human Ecology 2017, 45(5), 686-695.
• Verma A, Van der Wal R, Fischer A. Imagining wildlife: New technologies and animal censuses, maps and museums. Geoforum 2016, 75, 75-86.
• Verma A, Van der Wal R, Fischer A. Microscope and spectacle: On the complexities of using new visual technologies to communicate about wildlife communication. Ambio 2015, 44(Suppl. 4), 648-660.
• Verma A. Black magic women: On the purported use of sorcery by female foreign domestic workers in Singapore. In: Bonavita, HV, ed. Negotiating Identities: Constructed Selves and Others. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi Press, 2011, pp.25-50.