Shruti Chaudhry

Shruti Chaudhry (she/her) is a Chancellor’s Fellow in sociology and co-director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR). Her ongoing research focuses on the family and intimate life of racially minoritised older adults in Scotland. Her recent writing has focused on friendships across social boundaries - gender and racial/cultural. Her previous (doctoral) research on marriage migration in India explored the gendering of intimacy in a Global South arranged marriage context. 

Key Research Interests include:

• Families and Intimate Relationships
• Friendship
• Care, Ageing and the life-course
• Gender-based violence
• Race, Migration and Diasporas
• Ethnography and Qualitative Research

Selected Publications:

• 2025. Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas. The Sociological Review, 0(0)
• 2024. Gender in South Asia and Beyond. Zubaan: New Delhi (with Hugo Gorringe and Radhika Govinda).
• 2022. Mid- and Later-life Cross-Sex Friendships in Minority Ethnic Contexts: Insights from Scotland. Sociological Research Online. 27 (4): 947–963. 
• 2021 [2022, Paperback]. Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy and Women's Lives in Rural North India. SUNY Press (Albany: New York) book series Genders in the Global South.