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Dr. Rupa Ghosh is a Lecturer in the School of Society and Culture, College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. Her academic background encompasses a PhD in Sociology from the University of South Australia and both an MA and PhD in Political Science from Lucknow University. Ghosh's research interests center on questions of justice and society arising from the role of individual agency within discursive and institutional frameworks. She has expertise in discourse analysis, policy studies, gender, race, post-colonial theory, and decolonial theory, with a particular focus on issues associated with female feticide. Her doctoral work examined the framing of the agency of India's reproductive subjects through discourse analysis, addressing the phenomenon of missing women in Asia. Ghosh has experience in course coordination and teaching across disciplines including communication, sociology, and cultural studies.

Prior to her current role, Ghosh held positions at the University of South Australia, UniSA Online, UniSA College, and the University of Adelaide. At Adelaide University, she coordinates the course Australian Social Policy and teaches units such as Truth, Lies and Being Human; Intercultural Communication; Sociological Perspectives; The Social World; and Critical Thinking: Media and Academia. Her scholarly contributions include the 2021 publication 'Historicising the agency of India's reproductive subjects' in Social Identities (Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 114-128), which analyzes research on female foeticide in India and the agency of reproductive subjects. In 2025, she co-authored 'Culture in practice' with Susan Luckman, Katrina Jaworski, Brydie Kosmina, Stuart Richards, Jon Stratton, and Jess Pacella in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Volume 39, Issue 1, pp. 1-12). These works reflect her engagement with critical social issues through theoretical and analytical lenses.