Dr Kabita Chakraborty is a research fellow on the Community Connections project, an ethnographic study looking at how young people and their families use technology in their everyday lives, and how technology impacts upon their experiences of social inclusion/exclusion. She has worked in the area of children's rights in Asia before completing a PhD in the areas of community development and cultural studies at the University of Queensland. She has been a research fellow at the University of Wollongong and at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, before joining the McCaughey Centre. Her research interests include the sexual health and identities of young people, contemporary South Asian studies, Bollywood popular culture, non-traditional qualitative methodologies and methods (especially photovoice, ethnographic film and yoga), and individualisation and risk theory. She is currently writing her first book Young Muslim Women in India: Bollywood, Identity and Changing Lives (London: Routledge, 2010), which is an investigation into the changing lives of young Muslim women living in the slums of Kolkata, India.
