She has conducted fieldwork in India and Britain researching topics such as migration, race/ethnicity/gender, the creative arts, heritage, public culture, aesthetics, censorship, human rights, religion and politics, public representations of, and the socio-political, health and environmental implications of nuclear developments, and 'cultures of sustainability'.
Raminder Kaur gained her BA (Combined Hons) in Social Anthropology and Art and Archaeology, and her PhD in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
She co-authored the MCAAH report, Delivering Shared Heritage, which received the Eurocities Award for Cooperation in Gdansk, in 2007.
[3] She was a Trustee for Museums, Libraries and Archives London and Honorary Treasurer for the Association for Social Anthropologists (ASA) as well as ASA representative for the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA).
She collaborated with others at the School to coordinate a programme of artists, staff and students work for Global Voices at the WOMAD festival in 2015 and 2016 [3] She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Anthropological Institute where she serves as a member of the RAI Film Committee.