Rachan Upadhyaya is a PhD student at the University of Bristol. Her PhD research explores the production of flood risk and vulnerability in the riparian region of Kathmandu Valley. Her work draws on ethnographic methods to examine how risk is constructed, governed, and experienced in urban margins. She is also a Research Fellow at the Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS), a Kathmandu-based think tank focused on natural resource governance, climate change, and DRR