Sudeep Bhargava

Sudeep is a researcher working on the European City Leadership Initiative. He conducts research on innovation capacity in city governments and aids in analysis for recruitment.

He previously worked on the European Cities Programme and the Towards a Hybrid Cities Programme projects. With a research background in new media archives and a new materialist approach to data, he brought a rigorous and imaginative lens to the project, co-authoring a couple working papers and series of briefing papers.

Sudeep is currently pursuing a PhD in the LSE Department of Media and Communications, exploring digital urbanisation and politics. A graduate from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), he conducted research for his MSc on personal data networks and the impact of network visualisation on perceived social structures. While at the OII, he worked for the Fairwork Project, aiding in communications efforts for a global network of research teams and contributing editorial pieces on behalf of the project.

Outside of his research, Sudeep is a writer and organiser, and has previously worked with community organising centres in Philadelphia, engaging with community members directly through his ethnographic approaches. While at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC), he conducted fieldwork and stakeholder interviews at various Asian American-focused community centres in service of his article ‘Media and Networks in the Queer API Archive,’ published by CARGC Press.

Sudeep currently holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the OII and a BA in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He has also published creative and editorial pieces in a number of independent magazines

Expertise

Personal Digital Archives, New Media Artifacts, Asian American Studies, Queer Archives