DrSimiran Lalvani

Dr Lalvani is a Postdoctoral Researcher who examines the experiences of on-demand platform workers in Ireland on the ERC-funded LivePlatforms project with Dr Kylie Jarrett.

She completed a DPhil as a Felix Scholar at the University of Oxford (2020-2026). In her doctoral thesis, she analysed food delivery platforms as cultural agents, not just employers of gig workers, and also examined understudied user-cultures of consumers’ buying of food and businesses’ selling food.

Her doctoral work was shaped by her prior research on people’s socio-technical arrangements with digital technologies in public dining, matrimonial matchmaking, and work places. This research was pursued with organisations like University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), MIT Digital Currencies Project, Microsoft Research India, and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India. Simiran is an editorial board member of the Journal of Cultural Economy and is invited to review papers for publications such as Social Media+Society, Platforms&Society, Geoforum, and Computer-Human Interaction (CHI).