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Her research specialisms include religious violence, migration, gender, identity politics and the histories of the Second World War in colonial and post-colonial India. In addition to her core training as a historian, she regularly works with inter-disciplinary methods, drawing especially from political science to understand and analyse gender, identity politics and violence in contemporary Indian politics. 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Sarah can advise on social and political developments at national level (in particular relating to Pakistan) and regional/international levels, and more broadly on intersections between domestic and foreign policy. Email | University Profile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/32e6f134-8e3b-4707-a3ed-a98877e9fc76/Light+blue+rec.jpg Experts Profiles - Professor Sarah Ansari - Engagement experience includes Working on British Council projects in Pakistan. Chairing the Charles Wallace (Pakistan) Trust. Providing expert witness evidence in cases relating to e.g. the position of minorities in present-day Pakistan. Working with campaigns in the UK to raise awareness of the significance of the 1947 Partition of colonial-era India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/b96c8e44-83e6-4775-907f-80df99c38e99/Light+blue+rec.jpg Experts Profiles - Professor Sarah Ansari - special research expertise on Regional colonial history and its ongoing legacies. Migration and demographic change in the region. Religion and politics in the region. Gender and politics in the region. Legacies of the 1947 Partition, both in the region and for South Asia-heritage communities in the UK. https://www.insaan.org.uk/experts-profiles/antara-datta monthly 0.5 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/14ff7d9e-a4fe-4901-a80f-bcc471959844/antara-datta-royal-holloway-expert-migration-citizenship.jpg Experts Profiles - Dr. Antara Datta - Expertise on Countries: India, Pakistan & Bangladesh Policy Areas & Themes: Refugees, Migration, Citizenship, Gender & Diaspora Bio Antara Datta is an Associate Professor in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her first book examined the refugee crisis arising out of the Bangladesh War of 1971 and its impact on the eastern border. She has also written about the consequences of this for newer citizenship debates in India around the CAA and the NRC. Her subsequent work has focussed on refugees and evacuees in South Asia during World War II as well as questions around the body and family amongst the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Antara is the founder and convenor of the Beyond Partition Working Group and has written and spoken about the legacies of forced migration in the subcontinent. 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She has research experience of working with grassroot communities, non-governmental organisations, critical participatory methodology mainly in partnerships and collaborations with third sector organisations aimed at supporting evidence-based policy making. Her research has concentrated on challenging urban and gender politics and exploring issues surrounding inequality and social justice (e.g., informal housing, community participation, BAME staff & student at UK university, gig workers, ageing and intergenerational relationship in Indian urban poor communities), specialising in cities and everyday living, relationships between theory, policy processes and practice. She mainly carries out qualitative research capturing knowledge on lived experiences of the poor, which engages with a mixture of traditional and ethnographical techniques. Her research approach is based on understanding how power and structural inequalities (class, gender, race, age) interact to produce disparities. 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This expertise is part of his broader research on the political economy of development and study of Africa’s international relations. 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Goodfellow, T. Autocrats and cities: how capitals have become a battleground for protest and control. The Conversation. 29th October 2024. Available at: https://theconversation.com/autocrats-and-cities-how-capitals-have-become-a-battleground-for-protest-and-control-240377 · https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/b96c8e44-83e6-4775-907f-80df99c38e99/Light+blue+rec.jpg Experts Profiles - Dr. David Jackman - special research expertise on Crime and politics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/1748963414671-09MMI75SOLZOOT621GTN/Jackman%2C+David+photo.jpg Experts Profiles - Dr. David Jackman - Expertise on Countries: Bangladesh, India Policy Areas & Themes: Conflict, Defence & Security, Development Policy, Elections, Governance, History, Institutions, Maritime Security, Politics, Violence Bio David’s research focuses on the political economy of crime and violence in South Asia. He works particularly in Bangladesh and West Bengal, and has published on topics ranging from labour politics, syndicates and elections to beggar leaders and destitution. He is the author of Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World (Oxford University World). He is currently writing a political history of the Sundarbans (the world’s largest mangrove forest) focusing on piracy. 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He is a former adviser to the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street and Director Cyber at the Foreign Office where he was the U.K.’s chief international cyber policy negotiator. He has served as Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to India, as well as (briefly) to Pakistan, and has also worked in Afghanistan with UNAMA before later leading the U.N. Security Council expert group on Daesh, Al Qaida and the Taliban. He served as a senior adviser in the U.S. Department of State during the first Obama Administration. He has a PhD on South Asia from SOAS. 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Dan can advise on environmental and political risks at national (India and Pakistan) and regional/international levels, and more broadly on foreign policy. 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References to and interviews on her academic research have appeared in The Economist, Foreign Policy, South China Morning Post, and Le Figaro, as well as the Indian Express, The Wire, Scroll, and Caravan. She writes for Indian magazines and comments on Indian politics in Finnish media. In testament to her public engagement on themes around India, she is recognised on the 2023 40under40 list of Next Generation Leaders on Indo-UK/Indo-EU relations by the Europe India Centre for Business and Industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/5933a5a3-bfcf-4c2b-8498-16222a0b56c2/kira-huju-lse-expert-gender-governance-politics.jpg Experts Profiles - Dr. Kira Huju - Expertise on Countries: India, Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific, Global South Policy Areas & Themes: Defence & Security, Diplomacy, Elections, Foreign Policy, Gender, Governance, History, Indo-Pacific, Institutions, Multilateralism, Politics, Religion, Strategic Partnerships Bio Kira Huju is a Fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a British Academy Innovation Fellow at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), where she has been seconded as an India Research Analyst. She also serves as the India lead for Oxford University’s *Europe in a Changing World* programme, led by Sir Timothy Garton Ash, and is an India specialist in the Expert Working Group on Global Order convened by the European Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, she was a Departmental Lecturer in the International Relations of South Asia at Oxford University, where she completed her PhD in International Relations in 2020. Her book, *Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order* (Oxford University Press, 2023), explores the domestic influences and socio-historical roots of Indian diplomacy, offering the first book-length analysis of caste in International Relations. She is currently researching Indian populism, "decolonial Hindutva," and the resurgence of Global South discourse in New Delhi. Email | University Profile | Website | X/Twitter https://www.insaan.org.uk/experts-profiles/nitasha-kaul monthly 0.5 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/029b814f-c19c-43bc-9ad8-304eb0f2920e/nitasha-kaul-westminster-expert-china-strategic-partnerships.jpg Experts Profiles - Professor Nitasha Kaul - Expertise on Countries: India, Bhutan Policy Areas & Themes: China, Climate & Environment, Conflict, Defence & Security, Development Policy, Diplomacy, Economics, Elections, Foreign Policy, Gender, Governance, History, Institutions, Multilateralism, Politics, Religion, Strategic partnerships, Violence Bio Nitasha Kaul is Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) and a multidisciplinary academic who has held positions in politics, IR, economics, and literature; publishing across areas covering economics, gender, human rights, geopolitics, authoritarianism, democracy, AI technology, misogyny, Himalayas, small states, Kashmir, Bhutan, Kerala, politics, and international relations. She is the author of over 150 publications, including 7 single-authored or edited books, book chapters in numerous critical and ground-breaking edited collections, plus peer-reviewed original research articles in numerous journals across humanities and social science disciplines. In addition, she is also a multilingual, widely travelled (95 countries), award-winning novelist, public intellectual, and media commentator. Her interventions have appeared in major international radio, televisual, and print media. She has delivered invited lectures and keynotes at universities and institutions around the world, addressing diverse audiences, including U.S. Congress, U.N, and European Parliament. 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Work with government departments, CSOs, UN and other prominent institutions in Bhutan on biodemocracy, sustainability, and development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/6a09df94-a7ce-4942-9d08-138357d57f22/Light+blue+rec.jpg Experts Profiles - Professor Nitasha Kaul - special research expertise on Kashmir and South Asia: political conflict, identity, human rights, gender, and the socio-political dynamics in the region. India: Politics, society, and economy, including political strategies of Hindu nationalism, populism, and the changing political landscape of contemporary India and transnational influence of Indian diaspora communities. India's regional neighbourhood dynamics in the Himalayan border regions, including Bhutan, Nepal, and the North-East. India's engagements beyond the region (with Russia, China, West) and implications for transnational global right wing dynamics involving circulations of ideologies, infrastructures, narratives. Bhutan: transformations in democracy, identity, culture, and development in the country, at domestic political level and in diplomacy and foreign policy. https://www.insaan.org.uk/experts-profiles/thiruni-kelegama monthly 0.5 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/1132094c-2519-414d-b139-18474d7293a0/Light+blue+rec.jpg Experts Profiles - Dr. Thiruni Kelegama - special research expertise on Political and infrastructural transformations in postcolonial states Development-driven inequalities Community responses to state-led infrastructure projects ‘Global’ China in South Asia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/41a277be-1cda-4b4d-aec0-e34e2161fe33/Light+blue+rec.jpg Experts Profiles - Dr. Thiruni Kelegama - Engagement experience includes Research Collaborator, Institute of Political Economy, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2024 – present) Contributions to academia-analyst dialogue workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/1731310105523-P8NS0LS8Y9MVC9AC8RJ1/thiruni-kelegama-oxford-expert-development-policy-geopolitics.jpg Experts Profiles - Dr. Thiruni Kelegama - Expertise on Countries: Sri Lanka Policy Areas & Themes: Development Policy, Foreign Policy, Politics, Governance, Geopolitics, Strategic Partnerships Bio Thiruni Kelegama is a political geographer and development studies expert focused on the socio-political impacts of development in the Global South. Her current work explores how Chinese funded infrastructure projects influence state-society relations in Sri Lanka. Thiruni can advise on development policy, inclusive and participatory methods for engaging policymakers, practitioners, and affected communities, and Indian Ocean geopolitics. Email 1 | Email 2 | University Profile | X/Twitter https://www.insaan.org.uk/experts-profiles/yasser-kureshi monthly 0.5 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/1731310482885-UGIMBWJ9LXTZKP64I7MB/yasser-kureshi-oxford-expert-elections-governance.jpg Experts Profiles - Dr. Yasser Kureshi - Expertise on Countries: Pakistan Policy Areas & Themes: Elections, Governance, History, Institutions, Law, Politics Bio Yasser Kureshi is a departmental lecturer in South Asian Studies in the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. His book Seeking Supremacy, examines the emergence of Pakistan’s assertive judiciary, and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. His research interests include judicial politics, civil-military relations, hybrid regime transitions, constitutionalism and legal cultures. He is originally from Pakistan and has published work on Pakistan in both academic and media outlets. 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His book, Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions (Cambridge University Press) received the 2024 T.V. Paul Best Book in Global International Relations Award from the International Studies Association (ISA), the 2023 Hedley Bull Prize from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and the 2023 Hague Journal of Diplomacy Book Award. His regional focus is on the Asia-Pacific, particularly how major powers such as India, China, the United States, and Japan, and smaller states in South and Southeast Asia, manage the regional effects of global transitions. Email | University Profile | X/Twitter https://www.insaan.org.uk/experts-profiles/daanish-mustafa monthly 0.5 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/1132094c-2519-414d-b139-18474d7293a0/Light+blue+rec.jpg Experts Profiles - Professor Daanish Mustafa - special research expertise on Critical water resources geographies Environmental hazards and climate risk Critical geographies of violence and terror Problematising environment and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6722433782cce542243e0dc5/1733305497055-7PWZ2QU8PMW4NSF7GMUU/daanish-mustafa-kcl-expert-climate-gender-violence.jpg Experts Profiles - Professor Daanish Mustafa - Expertise on Countries: Pakistan Policy Areas & Themes: Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Gender, Violence Bio Daanish's research interests have been in water resources geography, environmental hazards, development and critical geographies of violence and terror. His most recent projects have been concerned with gender performativity and violence in Pakistan, cultural politics of urban horticulture in Pakistan, and hydro-social territorialisation in Jordan. 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