Feminist and LGBTQ+ Studies

Biography

Pupul Lama is a humanitarian practitioner and feministresearcher from India, currently based in the Netherlands. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in International Humanitarian Action (NOHA+), with a specialization in conflict, peacebuilding, and religion, and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. With over five years of experience across humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding contexts, her work focuses on violence against women and girls (VAWG/GBV), feminist movement-building, and gender-responsive monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Pupul currently serves as Coordinator of the Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM) and Thematic Lead of its Feminist Research Working Group, supporting movement-led research, collective learning, and feminist knowledge production across regions. Her work is guided by feminist, intersectional, and decolonial values.