Dr. Bharati Sethi

Bharati Sethi is an associate professor and a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Care Work, Ethnicity, Race and Aging in the Political Studies department. She is a Fellow, Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Class of 2025. 

Her teaching interests include policy, community practice, immigration, and diversity.  Bharati’s scholarly trajectory is fuelled by her lived experiences as an immigrant to Canada from India. She utilizes participatory action research and arts-based methods to highlight social determinants of health in immigrants’/refugees’ lives and capture their relevance to social justice. Bharati has received prestigious academic and community awards in recognition of her pioneering work in fostering the resettlement of newcomers in small towns and rural regions.  She was interviewed by the Free Press, Sarnia and Lambton County, Globe and Mail, CBC, 980 CKNW, Toronto Star, and The Conversation Canada on her research with racialized personal support workers.