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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

  • Professor Sabu Padmadas, Founding Executive Director, Professor of Demography and Global Health 
  • Mr. Amarjit Singh, Co-Founding Director, CEO of India Business Group 
  • Professor Jane Falkingham CBE, Co-Founding Director, Vice-President Engagement and International 
  • Professor Andrew Atherton, India Strategic Lead, Vice-President International and Engagement  

Operations team

  • Mrs 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 

Dr Achala Gupta FHEA, PhD (Sociology), MPhil (EdRes), MPS, MA, BSc

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Sociology of education
  • Shadow education
  • Educational inequality 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Ajit Nayak

Professor of Strategic Management

Research interests

  • Strategic Management
  • Innovation and Dynamic Capabilities
  • Responsible Leadership and Sustainability Transitions

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Andrew Tatem

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Developing approaches to map population distributions, demographics and dynamics through complementing traditional datasources (census, survey, registries) with new forms of geospatial data from e.g. satellite imagery and mobile devices.
  • Understanding the drivers of small area heterogeneities in population health and development in low and middle income settings.
  • The use of high resolution demographic and mobility data for improving understanding and modelling of pathogen dynamics.

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy

Research interests

  • Informal care provision and receipt
  • Unmet need for social care
  • Pension protection

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Bindi Shah PhD, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • A key question that Bindi is interested in asking is: What shapes citizenship and a sense of belonging to the nation amongst immigrants and established ethnic minority communities?
  • Bindi is also interested in exploring the role of social capital for developing interdisciplinary solutions to climate crisis and biodiversity loss for marginalised communities.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Emeritus Professor Caroline Fall MBChB, DM, FRCP, FRCPCH

Research interests

  • Maternal nutrition in pregnancy
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Long-term effects of fetal nutrition on health and chronic disease, especially type 2 diabetes

Email: chdf@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Dr Collin Sones

Principal Research Fellow

Professor Craig Hutton

Director Sustainability&Resilience Inst.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Emma Tompkins

Prof of Geog, Environment & Development

Accepting applications from PhD students