Pragya Agarwal is a behaviour and data scientist and Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice at Loughborough University in the UK. She is the founder of a research think-tank The 50 Percent Project investigating women’s status and rights around the world.
Pragya is the award-winning author of (M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman, SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish we knew what to say: Talking with children about race, and a book for children Standing up to Racism. Her most recent book HYSTERICAL: Exploding the myth of gendered emotions is published on 1st September.
Following a PhD from the University of Nottingham, Pragya held the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship and has held senior academic positions and visiting fellowships at University College London (UK), University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Temuco (Chile), University of California Santa Barbra (USA) and Johns Hopkins University (USA). Her publications are on reading lists of leading academic courses across the world. Pragya was selected as a 'creative thinker' for innovative and interdisciplinary research by NESTA and the TRANSMISSION PRIZE for ‘making complex scientific ideas accessible.’