Damni Kain is a PhD Candidate and a Gates–Cambridge Scholar at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She is currently the convenor of the Technologies at Work Research Network at the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and a Research Assistant for the Fairwork Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Damni’s research interests include ethnographic explorations of the gig/platform economy and the future of work, labour, and caste.
Damni completed her M.Phil from the University of Cambridge as a Cambridge Trust and Commonwealth Scholar, where her research on caste and gig work in India was awarded the prestigious British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) Master’s Dissertation Prize. After her M.Phil, Damni worked as a Lecturer at O.P. Jindal Global University, India. She has also previously worked at Fairwork (India), the Centre for Internet and Society, the Indian Parliament and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology where she contributed to parliamentary interventions on a range of policy issues at the helm of technology and labour rights.
