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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 

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

Email: j.dash@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Jane Falkingham

VP Engagement and International

Email: j.c.falkingham@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Jaywant Singh

Head of Department

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.singh@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Kalyanaraman Kumaran

Professor

Email: kk@mrc.soton.ac.uk

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

Professor Koushik Maharatna PhD

Prof Signal Processing System Design

Email: km3@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Address: B13, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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

Email: kristine.nilsen@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Mr Kyran De Silva

Research interests

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

Professor Maria Evandrou FAcSS

PROFESSOR OF GERONTOLOGY

Research interests

  • Inequalities in later life, particularly inequalities in the incomes of older people, equity in health and social care, and inequalities amongst ethnic elders in the UK
  • Informal carers, paid employment and resources
  • The retirement prospects of future generations of elders, particularly the building and use of different types of policy tools for modelling income, pensions, health, incapacity, demand and supply of formal and informal care amongst older people in the future

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: maria.evandrou@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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

Professorial Fellow Education

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: m.dyke@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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

Email: m.head@soton.ac.uk

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