Dr Chandni Dwarkasing

Chandni Dwarkasing is a Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London, where she brings a transdisciplinary perspective to her research which draws on her BSc and MSc in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences and her PhD in Economics from the Tuscan Universities of Siena, Pisa, and Florence.

Her work centres on Ecological Microeconomics, a developing field based on conceptual and theoretical frameworks that foreground the role of work in economy-ecology configuration or, put simply, what is the role of work in the relationship between economic activities and ecological outcomes? Empirical projects within this framework examine the relationships between working conditions, income, and ecological outcomes, such as consumption-based emissions. Simultaneously, she is consolidating Ecological Microeconomics by integrating approaches from neo-Ricardian, post-Walrasian, and evolutionary economics to hopefully establish a coherent and robust microeconomic framework.

More recently, Chandni is also exploring the political economy and ecology of content creation: how do digital labour processes and digital platforms reshape income generation opportunities and multidimensional inequalities? This emerging area, alongside her work on Ecological Microeconomics, aligns with the SOAS Work Beyond Labour cluster, where she collaborates with SOAS academics in the department of Economics to study diverse forms of work, both within and beyond capitalist wage relations.

Some of her other research concerns the social outcomes of low-carbon transition policies and the role of gender and time-use in macroeconomic models. Chandni welcomes inquiries from prospective students, researchers and collaborators interested in pluralist, transdisciplinary, theoretical and policy-relevant microeconomic approaches in the field of Ecological Economics.

• Ecological economics
• Work-ecology configurations
• Classical theories of production
• Low-carbon transition policies
• Digital labour