Lubna Duggal ([email protected])

Lubna Duggal is Consultant — Word Lab at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru. She is Associate Editor at Urbanisation, a biannual journal anchored at IIHS and published by SAGE Publications. She manages the peer review, copyediting and publication processes for the journal. As part of the IIHS Word Lab, she provides editorial assistance for other in-house publications and works by IIHS researchers and practitioners, including academic papers, grey literature and public-facing formats. She teaches in the Urban Fellows Programme’s Writing Skill Lab on reading, writing and editing academic literature.

Prior to IIHS, Lubna worked with Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), Mumbai, as senior assistant editor where she was responsible for reviewing and editing submissions, writing editorials, and managing the production of weekly issues. She worked on the development and implementation of EPW’s house style, the peer review process, and the article management system.

Lubna holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University. Her dissertation emerged from her interest in feminist philosophy to examine the conceptualisation and training of the body in classical dance, with a focus on Bharatanatyam and her experience of learning the dance form.

She is a member of the managing committee of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES) and a working editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) — a journal published by FMES.