Carolina ROTA

(Visiting PhD student, January 2025 – December 2025)
BIOGRAPHY:
Carolina Rota is a DPhil candidate in International Development at the University of Oxford (St Catherine’s College), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) studentship. Her research explores the social geographies of work of migrant women domestic workers in Delhi, utilizing ethnographic participatory, and visual methods to examine their lived experiences, mobility, and interactions with urban spaces.
Before the DPhil, Carolina completed the MPhil in Development Studies at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, earning the Papiya Ghosh Prize for best thesis for her qualitative work on part-time women domestic workers in Mumbai, conducted with the support of Youth and Unity for Voluntary Action.
Since moving to Delhi in 2022, Carolina has worked with SEWA Bharat and IPE Global on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) and research assignments. Her professional experience also includes research assistant roles at Sciences Po, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Pratham Education Foundation, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Mexico. Carolina holds a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, International and Economic Studies from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.