Ashish Ghadiali

Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation, UCL

Ashish Ghadiali is a writer and artist whose work explores the intersections of race, ecology and social justice. His practice spans scholarship, film, installation, performance and public convening, and is animated by an interest in how histories of colonialism, racialisation, and displacement shape the crises and possibilities of the present.

He is Director of Radical Ecology, Non-Executive Director of Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Co-Chair of UCL’s Black Atlantic Innovation Network, and Steering Committee Chair for AHRC’s Early Career Researchers in Cultural and Heritage Organisations. His 2025 solo exhibition Sensing the Planet (Thelma Hulbert Gallery) combined film, sound, and installation to examine racial justice in relation to ecological collapse.

Ashish was co-author of the 2023 study, Quantifying the human cost of global warming for Nature Sustainability and he has served as editor of policy reports including A Framework for Environmental Justice (2024) and the Global Tipping Points Report (2023). His writing has also appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, Soundings and Earth System Dynamics, and he has curated public programmes with institutions including the Southbank Centre, Serpentine, and The Box. He was a co-founder of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, Palestine in 2006, a project recognised internationally for its work on cultural resistance and he was Director of the 2016 feature documentary, The Confession, for BBC Storyville and the BFI, described in Sight and Sound as "an interrogation of the very nature of truth-telling, freedom and responsibility".