The India Centre for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Executive team

Operations team

  • Ms Jess Hawkins, Senior Operations Manager 
  • Mrs Clare Old, Operations Manager 
  • Ms Ailsa Muskett, Events and Marketing Senior Administrator 
  • Mrs Karolina Stanevic, Events and Centre Administrator 
  • Mr Alec Howett, Social Media & Website Administrator 

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing

Research interests

  • Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
  • Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial carbon uptake
  • Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology
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Professor Jane Falkingham

VP Engagement and International
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Professor Jaywant Singh

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Cause-related marketing
  • Social media
  • Strategic brand alliances

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Kalyanaraman Kumaran

Professor
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Professor Koushik Maharatna PhD

Prof Signal Processing System Design
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Dr Kristine Nilsen

Lecturer in Global Health

Research interests

  • Access, utilisation and quality of maternal and child health services in low income countries
  • Integration of traditional and novel data sources for health
  • Equity and geographical coverage analysis, generalised linear mixed models, small area estimation and subnational geospatial modelling

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mr Kyran De Silva

Research interests

  • Kyran is primarily interested in understanding migrant-led strategies of resistance against racist rheotric and exclusion.
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Professor Maria Evandrou FAcSS

PROFESSOR OF GERONTOLOGY

Research interests

  • ESRC: Centre for Population Change (CPC): I am Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Population Change. My collaborative work focuses on a) Increasing longevity and the changing life course, and b) Understanding intergenerational relations & exchange. For more information, please visit the CPC website.
  • ESRC CPC - Connecting Generations: I am also Co-Director of the ESRC CPC-Connecting Generations research programme. The research will investigate areas such as changing intergenerational relationships; intergenerational flows of support in later life; and work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life. More information on the Connecting Generations research programme here.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Martin Dyke PhD, MSc, BA (hons), PGCE.

Professorial Fellow Education

Research interests

  • Lifelong Learning and Work-related Learning
  • Experiential Learning
  • Technology Enhanced Learning

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Dr Michael Head

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • - Health needs of vulnerable populations e.g. refugee and rural healthcare
  • - Vaccine hesitancy in Ghana and Togo
  • - Impact of climate change upon health

Accepting applications from PhD students

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