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Mukulika Banerjee

Associate Professor in Anthropology

Dr Mukulika’s Banerjee 's current research interests are on the cultural meanings of democracy. Her most recent publication is Why India Votes? (2014) in which she explores the reasons behind India's rising trends of voter participation. She is currently completing a manuscript based on 15 years of engagement with a village in India to explain the sources of democratic thinking in Indian social life. Dr Banerjee was awarded her PhD from the University of Oxford in 1994 based on field research in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (North West Frontier Province). It was published as her first book, The Pathan Unarmed (2001); she has co-authored  The Sari (2003), a book on the modernity of fashion, and edited Muslim Portraits (2007), a collection of 12 Muslim life-stories in South Asia.

Katy Gardner

Professor in Anthropology

Professor Gardner’s work focuses on issues of globalisation, migration and economic change in Bangladesh and its transnational communities in the United Kingdom. Her most recent research arises from an ESRC-DfID grant, ‘Mining, Livelihoods and Social Networks in Bangladesh’, and involves the role of multinationals and competing narratives of ‘development’ and ‘un-development’ in Sylhet, where Chevron are now operating a large gas plant. The project focuses on corporate programmes of community engagement and discordant ideologies of philanthropy and development.

Chris Fuller

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology

Professor Chris Fuller specialises in India. He conducted fieldwork among the Nayars and Syrian Christians in Kerala in 1971-2, and the priests at the great temple of Madurai in Tamil Nadu in 1976-7, 1994-5 and on other visits until 2002.  During this period, Fuller also worked extensively on the anthropology of popular Hinduism.  In 2003-05, he participated in a research project that focused on middle-class company managers and software professionals in Chennai (Madras). In 2005-8, with Haripriya Narasimhan, he carried out research on Tamil Brahmans, focusing on this traditional elite's modern transformation into a migratory, urbanised, trans-national, middle-class community.   Fuller’s current scholarly work is on the history of the anthropology of India.

Jonathan Parry

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology

Professor Jonathan Parry has conducted field research in various parts of India, including a sub-Himalayan region, where he focused on the classic anthropological themes of caste, kinship, and marriage, and Banaras, where he studied the various communities of "sacred specialists". More recently, Professor Parry has been doing fieldwork on industrial workers in the central Indian steel town of Bhilai in Chhattisgarh.

Athar Hussain

Professor, Insititue of Global Affairs

Professor Athar Hussain has research interests on urbanisation trends in China, economic transformation, regional inequality in South Asia, and regional integration. He is a frequent commentator on Indian and Pakistani politics, bilateral relationships, and foreign relations.

Richard Burdett

Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities

Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age programme. His research focuses on the interactions between the physical and social worlds in the contemporary city and how urbanisation affects social and environmental sustainability. He oversaw ‘Urban India: Understanding the Maximum City’, Urban Age’s examination of the social, economic and physical contours of the four largest metropolitan regions in India. 

Tirthankar Roy 

Professor of Economic History 

Professor Roy focuses on the contribution of the artisan and traditional forms of useful knowledge in the making of the modern Indian economy. He has published books on the economic history of early modern India and India’s historic role in the world economy as well as a recent paper on Indian industrialisation. Dr Roy’s work on the sources of economic change in modern India suggests a more varied outcome of colonialism and globalisation on the economy of the region than is usually considered. His ongoing work connects India with debates in global history, and involves a study of standards of living, law, guild, states, and science and technology in a comparative frame.

Naila Kabeer

Professor of Gender and Development

Professor Kabeer's research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection, and citizenship. Much of her research is focused on South and South East Asia. Her publications include studies on Bangladeshi women and labour supply decision-making, the impact of social mobilisation and microfinance South Asia and social justice in relation to the MDGs.

Mary Kaldor

Professor of Global Governance

Professor Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit. She has published extensively on human security, organised violence in a global era, and the role of global civil society.

Ken Shadlen

Professor of Development Studies 

Professor Shadlen works on the comparative and international political economy of development. His research on the global and cross-national politics of intellectual property brought him to India. He has two ongoing projects that involve research in (and about) India. The first is a STICERD-funded project (“Pharmaceutical Patents, Industry Transformation, and the Supply of Generic Drugs,” with Chirantan Chatterjee, IIM-Bangalore) which examines changing dynamics in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. The starting point is India's well-known role as provider of affordable, quality, non-patented drugs to developing countries. The project examines whether the introduction of pharmaceutical patents in India since 2005 plus incentives to compete in the more regulated and more lucrative OECD markets will reorient Indian firms away from developing countries (and the drugs needed by poor people in poor countries) and toward developed countries (and the drugs demanded in such markets). And as some firms shift their orientation, the project examines whether new firms fill the gap in supply. The second project involving India is ESRC-funded (“TRIPS Implementation and Secondary Pharmaceutical Patenting: An Empirical Analysis," with Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University), and examines how and to what extent countries' different approaches to pharmaceutical patents yield different outcomes in terms of levels of patent protection and degrees of generic pharmaceutical competition. The project focuses on a set of developing countries that adopted specific mechanisms to limit the grant of "secondary patents" in pharmaceuticals.

Taylor C. Sherman 

Associate Professor of International History

Dr Sherman's research concerns the cultural and political history of India in the transition from colonial rule to independence in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Her research explores conceptions of citizenship, belonging and the idea of the minority in Indian politics; Arab and Afghan migration to and from India; early postcolonial democracy and the first elections; language politics, multilingualism and the creation of linguistic states; and violence and criminal justice in South Asia. Her first book was both a study of the many techniques of state coercion and a cultural history of the ways in which Indians imbue practices of punishment with their own meaning. She is currently working on a manuscript for a monograph on notions of citizenship amongst Muslims in early postcolonial India.

Siva Thambisetty

Associate Professor in Intellectual Property Law

Dr Thambisetty has previously been the School’s first Regional Champion for India; and has a research interest in the intellectual property protection of biotechnological inventions, bioethics, and comparative patent law.  She studies the effect of patents on innovation in emerging technologies and is particularly interested in the institutional structure of the patent system and its effect on the quality of legal doctrine, including in developing countries. She has been consulted by the UK Commission for Intellectual Property Rights, Justice Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs, the Nuffield Bioethics Council and the World Health Organisation, India. She has previously held the post of visiting Fellow at Imperial College, London where she worked on an EPRC funded project on synthetic biology. She is currently working on a EU Horizon 2020 funded five-year project (2015-2020) on the Nagoya Protocol and Marine Biodiversity Resources. She has written on the implications for India’s pharmaceutical industry of the Supreme Court decision to uphold the grant of the first compulsory license on a patented drug; India’s death penalty and criminal justice system; and accessibility legislation in India. 

Gautam Appa

Emeritus Professor of Operational Research

Professor Appa is Emeritus Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management. His research focuses on linear programming, the environmental impacts of large dams, integer programming, and data envelopment analysis. He has also studied the causes and effects of communal strife in India.

Mary Logan

Visiting Senior Fellow

Dr Logan's research focuses on organisational change, empowerment, and organisational identity issues. She has consulted in both the public and private sectors on issues surrounding organisational change and outsourcing.

Leslie Willcocks

Professor of Technology Work and Globalisation

Professor Willcock's major research interests include outsourcing, IT management, large-scale complex projects, organisational change, and IT measurement. He is also engaged in looking at technology in globalisation and the strategic use of IT, IT leadership, IT-enabled organisational change as well as business process outsourcing and offshoring, social theory and philosophy for information systems, and public sector IT Policy.

Patrik Karrberg

Associate, LSE Enterprise

Dr Karrberg’s research interests include wireless and mobile technologies, service delivery platforms, software management, mobility, innovation, and business models. He has published on enterprise efficiency in the use of ICT in India and several European countries.

Harry Barkema

Professor of Management and Chair, Research Committee

Professor Barkema is the founding Director of the Innovation Co-Creation Lab, which explores how to design innovative teams, innovation communities around websites, science parks and corporate campuses, and successful business model innovation in close cooperation with companies.

David Lewis

Professor of Social Policy and Development

Professor Lewis’ research focuses on Bangladesh's politics and society, and particularly on how the country has been impacted by four decades of international development policies. His PhD research was based on fieldwork that explored the social and economic dimensions of village level technological change in agriculture during the late 1980s and he has regularly undertaken research in the region ever since. In 2011 he published Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society (Cambridge University Press). David Lewis has also worked extensively on the roles of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society actors in South Asia—mainly in Bangladesh but also in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. An anthropologist by background, he has strong interests in ethnographic appraches to the study of organisations and policy processes. His most recent book is Anthropology and Development: Challenges For the 21st Century' (with Katy Gardner, Pluto, 2015).

Chetan Bhatt

Professor of Sociology

Professor Bhatt is Director of LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights. In addition to extensive work over many years on human rights, discrimination and social justice, Dr Bhatt's research interests include modern social theory and philosophy, early German Romanticism, the religious right and religious conflict, nationalism, racism and ethnicity, and the geopolitical sociology of South Asia and the Middle East. Current projects include work on new forms of the regional state in South Asia and the sociology of religious paramilitia groups. His previous Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship focused on the geosociology of religious violence and involved research on violent religious movements and militia in Pakistan, Kashmir, Afghanistan and India.