Research
Over the years, extensive research and academic collaborations have been forged between the University of Oxford and universities and institutions in India and the subcontinent. Register for or search our database of researchers and academics at Oxford to find potential collaborations or those working in your field.
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Dev Gangjee
Department
Area of study
Intellectual Property Law | Branding and Trade Marks | Geographical Indications | Copyright law
Devanshi Ranjan
Department
Area of study
Global International Relations I Gender I Conflict and Security I Indo-China Relations
College
Devarchan Banerjee
Department
Area of study
Public Service Delivery | Public Institutions
College
Diwakar Acharya
Department
Area of study
Evolution of Indian religions and philosophical ideas | Early history of South Asia (particularly Nepal)
College
Dr Nikita Ved MBE
Department
Area of study
Cardiovascular medicine | UK-India relations (co-chair of the 1928 Institute)
College
Elinor Payne
Department
Area of study
Phonetics and Phonology | Theoretical and empirical investigation of speech (what shapes sound patterns cross-linguistically, and people’s speech behaviour more generally) | Structural properties of languages | 'Speaker-circumstantial’ factors (arising from acquisition, or multilingualism) | Performance aspects (modification of speech for communicative goals) | Complex multilingualism (the study of variation and change in Indian English, in particular to conflicting processes of convergence (the creation of pan-Indian varieties) and diversification (sub-varietal effects from contact with multiple Indian languages across diverse language families) |
Current work: (With colleagues in Australia, India and Germany) The effect of contact with other varieties of English, through investigation of Indian English in the international diaspora | (Leverhulme International Fellowship from 2021) Comparison of linguistic adaptation in urban hotspots for recent, rapid growth in Indian domestic and international migration (Hyderabad vs Melbourne).
Elleke Boehmer
Department
Area of study
World Literature in English
College
Faisal Devji
Department
Area of study
Indian History | Asian Studies
College
Faridah Zaman
Department
Area of study
History of Britain and the World
College
Gauri Chandra
Department
Area of study
Social Media Behaviours | Online Health Misinformation | Climate Change | Altruism | Ethical Consumerism
College
Gavin Flood
Department
Area of study
College
George FitzHerbert
Department
Area of study
Tibetan political, cultural and regional histories | The Gesar Epic | Tibetan national mythography | Religion and Patronage | Tibetan cultural relations with its northern neighbours | Bon, Buddhism and Dzogchen