Warwick Team
Prof. Mandy Sadan
Bio.
Holly Hamer
Holly brings a unique mix of coordination expertise, social impact experience and creativity to the HAGAF project. With a career spanning higher education, health research, social wellbeing and award‑winning enterprise, she is skilled at supporting complex projects while keeping people and purpose at the centre.
As HAGAF’s Project Coordinator, Holly helps the project run smoothly day‑to‑day. She oversees project management, manages the project’s finance processes, and leads on communications—turning project developments into clear, engaging updates that help people understand the work and its impact.
Manila Khisa
Bio.
Pooja Narayan
Pooja (she/they) holds an MSc in Medical Anthropology from UCL and an MA in Women's Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad. They are currently placed at the University of Warwick as a Research Assistant (Postdoctoral RA at Global Development Studies, School of Cross Faculty Studies and RA at School of Education, Learning and Communication Sciences).
Pooja’s research interests lie at the intersections of gender, medical anthropology, health justice and feminist bioethics. Through their research, they have shed light on the many diverse lived realities of ‘fatness’ in post-1990s India and in contemporary UK, transcending the narrow yet hegemonic cultural and medical understandings co-established by media and the biomedical sciences.
An active member of grassroot organisations advocating for health justice and fat liberation, she strives by her staunch commitment towards social justice by bringing their worlds of academia and social activism closer. Pooja enjoys reading and cooking in her free time and has recently immersed in crocheting and painting to creatively express themselves.
Ragesree Roy
Ragesree is a final-year PhD student at the University of Warwick, England. She holds a double master’s in English literature and International Human Rights. Her work focuses on the interdisciplinary domains of environmental humanities, gender studies, and South Asian history.
She is particularly interested in the role of landscapes and waterscapes in carrying ecological, colonial and marginalised histories.
Her research has been supported by the WIHEA Fellowship, the British Federation for Women Graduates Fund, the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies grant and the Critical South Asia Group travel grant.
In addition to her research, Ragesree is currently teaching seminars to undergraduate students at both the University of Warwick and Birmingham Metropolitan University. Before beginning her PhD, she qualified for the National Eligibility Test for lectureship in India and has also worked as a Research Assistant on an AHRC-funded project. Across research and teaching, she remains committed to exploring the intersections of place, power, memory and history.