Research Projects


The India-UK Development Partnership Forum supports critical, original, yet policy relevant research on various aspects of Indian Development Cooperation. See below for a full list of our ongoing research projects. 

India’s international leadership on clean energy and climate collaboration

Dr Jonathan Balls
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Between post-colonial solidarity for sustainable energy transitions and neo-colonial extraction: Investigating India’s role in the East African energy landscape

Dr Jonathan Balls | Dr Ankit Kumar
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The Politics of Quality and Standards: A cultural economy of Indian solar products in East Africa

Dr Jonathan Balls | Dr Ankit Kumar
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The internationalisation of Indian development finance

Dr Jai Bhatia
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Dams, development and diplomacy

Udisha Saklani
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Future of cooling, Low carbon technologies, Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development

Dr Radhika Khosla
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Empowering smallholder women agriculturists in Africa

Dr Renu Modi
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The Role of Natural Resources in India-Africa Development Cooperation

Dr Barnaby Dye |  Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
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India in West Africa

Dr David Harris | Dr Simona Vittorini
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Does foreign assistance influence UN General Assembly voting behaviour? A case of India

Chirayu Thakkar
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Women at the helm of international development cooperation: insights and lessons for and from the Indian experience

Supriya Roychoudhury
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