PhD in Geography
King's College London, 2020–2025
The Fiction of Forest Fires: Contested Forest Fire Management in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
Fully funded, Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society
MSc in Environmental Change and Management
University of Oxford, 2018–2019
Governing the Ponds: Community-based Management of Rainwater Harvesting Ponds in Rajasthan
Weidenfeld-Hoffman Trust Scholar
BTech in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2007–2011
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Oct 2024–Present
Three-year Leverhulme fellowship. Research on fire, livelihoods, and biodiversity in India and South Africa.
Research Assistant
King's College London, Jan–Mar 2022
NERC Discipline Hopping Project on interdisciplinary collaboration between Engineering and Geography.
Selected peer-reviewed articles
Yadav, K. (accepted). When Plantations Stop Looking Like Plantations: Wildfires, Forest Use and the Plantationocene in the Indian Himalaya. Annals of the AAG.
Yadav, K. (2026). The fiction of disaster: Forest fires and state-making in the Indian Himalaya. Political Geography.
Yadav, K. (2026). Agrarianising the forest fire crisis: Rethinking forest fires from the grassroots in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Journal of Peasant Studies.
Yadav, K. et al. (2026). The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter: a good start. Nature Communications.
Yadav, K. and Thompson, H. (2025). Adding lines along pixels. Geo: Geography and Environment.
Yadav, K. (2025). Living with fire: A relational approach to fire in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. International Journal of the Commons.
Yadav, K. (2025). Political ecology of fire: Decolonial perspectives. In The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Routledge.
Leverhulme Trust-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship, Royal Holloway (2024–2027)
National Geographic Society Level I Grant, £10,000 (2021)
Doctoral Studentship, King's College London — fully funded (2020–2024)
Weidenfeld-Hoffman Trust Scholarship — fully funded MSc (2018–2019)
Mother Teresa Fellowship, Ashoka University (2015-2016)