Dr Henry’s research interests focus on four main areas: gender, space and security; gender and militarisation; gender and development; and feminist, diasporic and qualitative methodologies. She is currently writing up the results of two research studies examining the social and cultural life of peacekeepers in Liberia. In particular, she has conducted research on the experiences of female peacekeepers from India. Dr Henry’s previous research focused on reproductive decision-making amongst middle-class women in India.

Sumi Madhok

Associate Professor of Transnational Gender Studies

Dr Madhok's research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political theory and philosophy, gender theories, the transnational gender analyses of human rights, citizenship, postcoloniality and developmentalism and feminist ethnographies. In particular, she is interested in questions of agency and coercion, in the new citizenship movements and in the genealogical investigations of rights/human rights discourses, politics, cultures and subjectivities, both in Southern Asia as well as in Non-Western contexts more generally. To this end, she proposes a framework of 'vernacular rights cultures’ which she suggests, will help us conceptually capture the dynamic politics of rights and entitlements in Southern Asia, while also enabling an epistemic and methodological shift beyond the tired arguments of eurocentrism, cultural relativism or celebratory universalism that no longer adequately capture the dynamism of the citizenship claims that are increasingly voiced and struggled for.

Kalpana Wilson

Senior LSE Fellow in Gender Theory, Globalisation and Development

Dr Wilson is Fellow in Gender Theory, Globalisation and Development at the Gender Institute. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include the experiences of women in rural labour movements in South Asia, the appropriation of feminist concepts within neoliberal approaches, the ways in which race is inscribed within discourses and practices of development, and the involvement of South Asian diasporas in development. Some of her recent research explores how gendered and racialised constructions of women's 'agency' have been elaborated within the framework of a neoliberal model of development. This work also draws on research on the experiences, approaches and perceptions of mainly Dalit women involved in agricultural labour movements in Bihar, India.

Timothy Dyson

Professor of Population Studies

Professor Dyson’s research interests include demographic transition, urbanization, migration, famines, world food prospects, HIV/AIDS, and the impact of demographic change on democratisation. He has published extensively on the past, present and future demography of the Indian subcontinent. With Robert Cassen and Leela Visaria, he was the editor of Twenty-first Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development, and the Environment, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Jude Howell

Professor in International Development

Professor Howell research focuses on the politics of aid and development policy, civil society, governance, and aid and security. She also has experience of gender, labour relations and the politics of policy processes. Professor Howell published on the impact in India of counter-terrorism policies post-9/11.

Tomila Lankina

Associate Professor in International Relations

Dr Lankina’s current research focuses on the historical influences on sub-national democracy and authoritarianism in India and Russia. In particular, Dr Lankina explores the imperial and colonial human capital legacies and their developmental and democracy effects in these settings by analysing sub-national data that she has gathered. She has also recently published on the impact of Christian missionaries on India’s democratic development, finding that Christian missions operating throughout India influenced post-colonial democracy by promoting education, particularly female literacy.

Catherine Campbell

Professor of Social Psychology

Dr Campbell’s research interests include public health intervention; health systems and inequality; participatory community development and community health. Her recent India-focused publications include a discussion of the role of community participation in improving mental health care in India as well as a case study from Orissa on improving maternal health through social accountability strategies.

Divya Parmar

Research Officer

Dr Divya Parmar is Research Officer in the Department of Social Policy and in LSE Health and Social Care. Her research investigated the underlying reasons for inequalities in access to health services in low and middle-income countries and how public programs can be made inclusive. She studies the impact of health programs and policies on demand, utilization, health outcomes, equity, and poverty reduction. She has worked extensively in India and Africa.

Tiziana Leone

Lecturer in Demography and Senior Research Fellow, LSE Health

Dr Leone is a demographer with a statistical background and her research focuses on reproductive maternal health and health systems in low-income countries. She has previously studied the role of social networks and community factors affecting family planning choices and overmedicalisation of births. Dr Leone is currently working on projects that analyse the effect of health systems reforms on health inequalities in India and Brazil. Her India-focused publications include studies on gender-based violence and reproductive health as well as the burden of maternal healthcare.