Vijay Devadas

Dr Vijay Devadas is Co-Director of the Communication for Social Change Research Centre at AUT and Associate Director of the New Zealand India Research Institute.

He joined the School of Communication Studies in 2016 as Head of Postgraduate and now holds the Director of International Engagement portfolio. He is an internationally recognised scholar in the fields of race and ethnicity studies, South Asian cinema, and the sociology of technology. He has served as an Expert Panellist on the Marsden Council Fund, is editor of the journal Borderlands Journal: Culture, Politics, Law & Earth and is an Editorial Board member of a number of journals, including Communication, Culture and Critique and Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies–Technologies–Power. He is a recipient of several internal and external research grants from the Human Rights Commission and Education New Zealand.