LSE Awards Sustainability Fund Support for South Asia Extreme Heat Research Initiative

The Global School of Sustainability at LSE has awarded funding through its Global Sustainability Research Fund for a new interdisciplinary initiative examining the implications of extreme heat in South Asia.

Led by Dr Sohini Kar and Dr Mahvish Shami from the Department of International Development, the project Living with Heat: Sustainability and the Political Economy of Extreme Heat in South Asia will explore how rising temperatures are reshaping livelihoods, governance and economic life across the region.

The two-day workshop will convene leading international scholars from across the social sciences and related disciplines to consider the social, political and economic consequences of extreme heat, and the policy responses required to address them. Discussions will contribute to a planned co-authored commentary for submission to a leading academic journal, while also laying the foundations for future international research collaboration.

As part of the programme, two distinguished visiting scholars, still to be confirmed, will deliver public lectures and engage with doctoral students and colleagues across the School.

The initiative will take place before the end of the 2026/27 academic year and reflects LSE’s commitment to advancing research on the urgent global challenges of sustainability, inequality and climate change.