Recent

Blell, Mwenza, Liu, Sarah, and Verma, Audrey. 2022. ‘A one-sided view of the world’: women of colour at the intersections of academic freedom. The International Journal of Human Rights. DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2022.2041601

Verma, Audrey, Heather, McKnight & Griselda Gabriele. 2021. Digital Carekit: Developing activist communities of care online. Footprint Workers Co-op.

Publications

• Blell, Mwenza, Liu, Sarah, and Verma, Audrey. 2022. ‘A one-sided view of the world’: women of colour at the intersections of academic freedom. The International Journal of Human Rights. DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2022.2041601
• Silk, Matthew, Correia, Ricardo, Verissimo, Diogo, Verma, Audrey, Crowley, Sarah L. 2021. The implications of digital visual media for human–nature relationships. People and Nature 3:6, 1130-1137. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10284
• Verma, A., Van der Wal, R., and Fischer, A. 2017. New technological interventions in conservation conflicts: Countering emotions and contested knowledge. Human Ecology 45:5, 683–695. doi: 10.1007/s10745-017-9936-z
• Verma, A., Van der Wal, R., and Fischer, A. 2016. Imagining wildlife: New technologies and animal censuses, maps and museums. Geoforum 75, 75-86. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.07.002
• Verma, A., R. van der Wal, and A. Fischer. 2015. Microscope and spectacle: On the complexities of using new visual technologies to communicate about wildlife conservation. Ambio 44:4, 648-660. doi:10.1007/s13280-015-0715-z
• Verma, A. 2011. Black magic women: On the purported use of sorcery by female foreign domestic workers in Singapore. In: Negotiating Identities: Constructed Selves and Others, edited by Bonavita, H. V. Amsterdam. New York: Rodopi Press.

Reports/Articles/Blogs

• Verma, A., Dargie, T., and Chakraborty, S. 2021. Socio-legal implications for digital environmental activism. The Sociological Review magazine (published 6 July 2021)
• interview in Newcastle University’s Institute for Social Science blog (published 23 June 2021): https://socialscienceblognewcastleuniversity.wordpress.com/2021/06/23/interview-l-dr-audrey-verma-on-her-research-surrounding-over-heating-in-the-uk/
• Verma, A. 2021. Hope and Resistance in the Anthropocene event reflections. PGR Sociology @ Newcastle (published 14 June 2021)
• Verma, A. 2020. Digital afterlives of nature: Coul Links case study findings. (internal report for research participants)
• Verma, A., James, T. and Faulkner, A. 2020. ‘What a waste of a life being an honest, tax-paying citizen in this country turned out to be​’: High Point Villages, Hayes representation on cladding and building safety. High Point Village Residents’ Association and Signal Building Residents’ Association. (report)
• Verma, A. 2020. ‘It’s complex’ – Race-related inequalities and ignorance in UKHE (published 16 September 2020) https://postpandemicuniversity.net/2020/09/16/its-complex-race-related-inequalities-and-ignorance-in-ukhe/
• Verma, A. and Degnen, C. 2018. Creative Fuse North East: Knowledge production, interdisciplinarity and innovation. (end of project work package report)
• interview in SAGE’s Social Science Space (published 24 April 2018): https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2018/04/audrey-verma-a-clean-up-crew-for-the-messes-and-excesses-of-neoliberalism/ 
• Verma, A. 2012, June 13. Environment and technology: Joining the dialogue. AU Science Magazine, Aberdeen University.

Theses

• Verma, A. 2016. The role of digital technologies in human-nature relationships. PhD Thesis. School of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen University, and the James Hutton Institute.
• Verma, A. 2011. Multiple forms of violence in maid-employer relations in Singapore. Masters Thesis. Dept. of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

Conference Presentations/Talks/Engagement

• (forthcoming) State-public relations in the digital anthropocene. British International Studies Association Conference 2022: Can the world survive?. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. 15-17 June 2022.
• “Does that mean you can’t say anything about environmental destruction anywhere unless it’s at your doorstep?”: Online environmental campaigns and the question of community. Conceptualising Community Conference 2022. Aberdeen, Scotland. 30-31 May 2022.
• Hot property: Overheating inequalities in UK’s residential sector. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2022: Building Equality and Justice Now. Online event. 20-22 April 2022.
• ‘If you think this is only a local issue, then nobody in the world can object to anything except what is on their doorstep’: Digital environmental campaigns and the problem of community. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2022: Building Equality and Justice Now. Online event. 20-22 April 2022.
• Hot property: Overheating inequalities in UK’s residential sector, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2021, for the session on Embodying sustainable cooling: Negotiating green cooling practices between material culture, governance and people’s lived experiences, convened by the Energy Geographies Research Group, 3 September 2021.
• Love after outrage, hope after doomscrolling: A ‘digital carekit’ invitation (presentation and workshop lead). CHASE (Taking) Care in the Climate Crisis. Online event on Gathertown. 22-23 April 2021.
• Experiencing time in the digital anthropocene. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2021: Remaking the Future. Online event. 13-15 April 2021
• invited speaker/panellist on Intersectionality and academic freedom, for a panel on Academic freedom and the right to learn in the university online (online panel), 17 February 2021
• panel contribution on climate colonialism (transcript link), People and Planet (Newcastle) Go Green Week 2020, 14 February 2020
• invited inaugural Professional Learning Communities lecture on Cross-disciplinary meanings, (un)doings and beings, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, 16 April 2019 (+ facilitation of workshop on transdisciplinary teaching on 17 April 2019)
• panel on Critiquing the narratives, practices and performance of resilience in HE, The Sociological Review Undisciplining conference, 18 June 2018, Baltic Gateshead
• The darker side of bird watching, Leading Lights talk at Old Low Light, North Shields, 16 September 2017; and RSPB Newcastle Winter meeting, 5 December 2017 (invited public talks)
• New technological interventions in conservation conflicts: Countering emotions and contesting knowledge. Political Ecologies of Conflict, Capitalism and Contestation (PE-3C) International Conference. Wageningen, Netherlands. 7-9 July 2016.
• New technological interventions and knowledge production in the conservation of maerl in Falmouth, Cornwall.  XXVI European Society for Rural Sociology congress. Aberdeen, Scotland. 18-21 August 2015.
• Re-imagining wildlife: New visual technologies and the production of animal census, map and museum. 20th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Leibniz University, Hannover. 9-13 June 2014.
• Microscope and spectacle: On the complexities of using new visual technologies to communicate about wildlife conservation. Digital Conservation Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Aberdeen, UK. 21-23 May 2014
• Could clicking on an animal-shaped icon lead to pro-conservation behaviour? Symposium paper. Symposium on Influencing People with Information, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 25 April 2012. [paper –  http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/k.vdeemter/pages/sipi-2012/]
• Black magic women: On the purported use of sorcery by female foreign domestic workers in Singapore. Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners (1^st Global Conference), Oxford, UK. 22-24 September 2009.
• Unpacking economic necessity: Locating the foreign domestic worker in Singapore. 59th Political Studies Association Conference. Manchester University. 7-9 April 2009.

Research Projects

• current: Digital Afterlives of Nature (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship)
• current: Hot Property (working title for pilot; NU Pioneer Award)
• October 2016 – September 2018: Research Associate on the Creative Fuse North East project, with the Department of Sociology, Newcastle University; working with Creative Fuse Co-PI Dr Cathrine Degnen
• September 2016: Visiting researcher at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
• May-July 2016: Researcher on the Citizen Sense project, led by Dr Jennifer Gabrys, 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, led by Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability
• 2011: Research assistant to A/P Misha Petrovic, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
• 2008-2011: Research assistant at Drum-Cussac Asia
• 2010: Independent research contractor for the Department of Strategy, INSEAD Asia
• 2006-2007: Research assistant to A/P Volker Schmidt, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore (three projects)

Events organised

• 19 February 2021, Hope and resistance in the anthropocene, online symposium, co-organised with JC Niala
• 9 January 2019, NU-BAME event and History seminar by Dr Saima Nasar, Newcastle University, co-organised with Dr Sarah Liu and Dr Vanessa Mongey
• 4 May 2018, Between the discourse of ‘resilience’ and death by committee – Reclaiming collective spaces for academic resistance (zine link), symposium and zine-making event, Newcastle University, co-organised with Dr Ewan Mackenzie
• 24 January/9 February 2018, BAME network scoping sessions, Newcastle University, co-organised with NU-BAME’s working committee

Other

• quoted in Inside the Animal Internet, Engadget/Silica Critters edition (published 21 May 2018)
• Verma, A. 2017. November. “Invasive” and “Re-nationalise, for fuck’s sake”. So Fi: A sociological fiction zine. https://sofizine.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/so-fi-edition-2.pdf