Vrinda Chopra is an economic and development geographer with an interdisciplinary impetus to teaching and learning. She read her MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, her MSc in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and her BA (Hons) in Sociology at Delhi University. Vrinda’s research focuses on livelihoods and social change in the informal economies of India and South Africa. Her current emphasis is on questions of decolonial research methodology and writing pedagogy, particularly on being reflexive on the field and in the classroom. Her scholarly work has been published in premier journals such as Economic Geography and The Professional Geographer. Vrinda also writes narrative non-fiction on space, identity and personal memory, and has been published in The Sociological Review Magazine, Writing Women and Akpata Magazine, among others. Vrinda is also a co-convenor of the Sociologies of Emotions Study Group of the British Sociological Association (BSA).