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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 Sabu Padmadas

Professor of Demography & Global Health

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.padmadas@soton.ac.uk

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

Dr Sarah Kehoe PhD

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Determinants of health behaviours including diet and physical activity in low and middle income countries
  • Development and implementation of interventions to improve maternal, child and adolescent health

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: sk@mrc.soton.ac.uk

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

Dr Savita Rangarajan MD, FRCP; FRCPath

Assoc Professor of Clinical Haematology

Professor Sujit Sahu

Professor of Statistics

Research interests

  • Applied Bayesian modelling
  • Bayesian computation
  • Spatio-temporal data modelling

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.k.sahu@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Tapas Mishra

Head of Department Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Long memory; Green finance and corporate culture; Mergers and Acquisition, Stochastic economic growth; Macroprudential policy and stress testing; Environmental and demographic volatility; Cryptocurrency modelling; Climate finance, Small Business Economics, and Innovation-diffusion modelling.
  • Demography-growth-environmental interdependence
  • Spatio-temporal models

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: t.k.mishra@soton.ac.uk

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

Dr Valentina Cardo

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Valentina's research interests include:
  • The relationship between citizenship and identity;
  • Political representation;

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: v.m.cardo@soton.ac.uk

Address: Satellite - Park Avenue, Winchester, SO23 8DL

Professor Yasmin Sekhon Dhillon

Associate Dean EDI

Research interests

  • Consumer Research
  • Luxury Consumption
  • Cross-cultural Consumption

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: y.k.sekhon@soton.ac.uk

Address: Satellite - Park Avenue, Winchester, SO23 8DL

Professor Zoe Matthews

Prof of Global Health&Social Statistics

Research interests

  • Maternal, newborn and adolescent health
  • Health workforce and health systems
  • Sustainable development goals

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: zoe.matthews@soton.ac.uk

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