Development Expertise
| Name/Title | Area of Expertise |
| Alessandra Mezzadri Senior Lecturer in Development Studies |
International trade, global commodity chains; production networks and industrial systems; informality and processes of labour informalisation; inequality and social structures of oppression; gender, feminisms and reproduction; the political economy of the garment industry; the political economy of India |
| Anna Larson Research Associate, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus |
Democratisation in Afghanistan and other conflict-affected states, with a particular focus on gender and democratic institutions (elections, political parties and the legislature). Recently this has included work on the impact of Afghanistan's reserved seats system for women, the way elections shape and are shaped by local political landscapes, the internal dynamics of Afghan national assembly, political party institutionalisation and women's role in parties over time |
| Bhavani Shankar Professor of International Food, Agriculture and Health, Centre for Development, Environment and Policy |
Analysis of economic drivers of over- and under-nutrition, nutrition transition, dietary policy evaluation, impact assessment and the role of agriculture in enabling better nutrition and health |
| Feyzi Ismail Senior Teaching Fellow |
NGOs and social movements, politics and development in Nepal and South Asia, global protest and change, alternatives to neoliberalism and imperialism |
| Jens Lerche Reader in Agrarian and Labour Studies |
India; labour, social movements and globalisation; labour and the ILO; labour and caste in India; agrarian political economy |
| Jonathan Goodhand Professor in Conflict and Development Studies |
South and Central Asia; complex political emergencies, humanitarian aid; NGO capacity building, aid, conflict and development |
| Navtej K Purewal Reader in Political Sociology and Development Studies and Deputy Director, SOAS South Asia Institute |
Purewal’s interests fall within two areas, both with a distinctive Punjab (India and Pakistan) focus. The first is on feminist scholarship and gender in South Asia, including female feticide and routes and barriers to girls’ education. The second area is the sociology of religion. Purewal was the principal investigator on a large project under the Religion and Society programme (AHRC and ESRC) on popular religious practices and contemporary transgressions of religious boundaries in South Asia focusing specifically on the region of Punjab across India and Pakistan |
| Nigel Poole Professor of International Development Policy, Centre for Development, Environment and Policy |
Agri-health and nutrition, natural resources and food value chains, poverty reduction |
| Paolo Novak Lecturer in Development Studies |
Trans-nationality with particular reference to migration; refugee regime; borders and NGOs |
| Peter P Mollinga Professor of Development Studies |
South Asia, Central Asia; comparative political sociology of water resources and development; technology and agrarian change; boundary work in natural resources management; interdisciplinary social theory |
| Richard Axelby Research Associate, Department of Anthropology and Sociology |
Natural resource use; citizenship and identity, and the politics of development |
| Subir Sinha Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Development |
South Asia: institutions of development, NGOs, social movements; the environment, common property institutions and resource use |
| Tom Selwyn Professorial Research Associate, Department of Anthropology and Sociology |
Anthropology of tourism/pilgrimage with regional interests in Palestine/Israel and Bosnia-Herzegovina |