India Day

Promoting Research Funding and Collaboration between the UK and India

On Thursday 24 June 2010 an India Day was held in the Research Beehive at Newcastle University. This event was organised by Newcastle University with sponsorship from One North East.

The purpose was to bring UK researchers together to share contacts, opportunities and best practice with academics who already had collaborative links with Indian partners. Designed to reach those interested in developing links with India, the event alerted researchers to the wide range of funding opportunities for facilitating links with Indian partners, and also demonstrated how researchers could identify potential Indian partners and what practical support was available.

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News:

Changing water cycle in South Asia – call for proposals

The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), India, in collaboration with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK, jointly invite outline bid proposals for research on the changing water cycle in South Asia. The deadline is 16:00 GMT on 3 September 2010. Rebecca Fairbairn, the UK's Head of Science and Innovation, South India has asked us to circulate this new funding opportunity to all the attendees at India Day. Further information: www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/cwc/events/ao-southasia.asp

Bharat Britain

British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, London - 13-14 September 2010. This major international conference marks the culmination of the AHRC-funded project, ‘Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950’, led by the Open University in collaboration with the University of Oxford and King's College, London. ‘Bharat Britain’ will showcase new research from distinguished scholars, curators and writers worldwide. Held in partnership with the British Library, it will explore the manifold ways in which South Asians impacted on the formation of Britain’s cultural and political life prior to Independence and Partition in 1947. View the flyer (PDF: 194KB). Further information:www.open.ac.uk/Arts/south-asians-making-britain/conference.htm

We are exploring ways in which we could add new items of interest, such as upcoming events, reports of new collaborations, etc. If you would like to suggest any items for inclusion, please contact Grania Rogers.

Presentations:

The Landscape:
Case studies of successful collaborations:
  • Dr Richard Scott (PDF: 1MB), School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, and Chair of Sterling Group
  • Dr Caroline Relton (PDF: 693KB), Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University
  • Dr Alex Densmore (PDF: 1.5MB), Department of Geography, Durham University
  • Dr Jaime Amezaga (PDF: 969KB), School of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Newcastle University
  • Professor Sugata Mitra (PDF: 4.85MB), School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, Newcastle University
Funding opportunities for realising research links:
  • EU funds (PDF: 7.6MB) – Deirdre Dodd, Newcastle University
Learning from experience:

Posters

Use of ADMS-Urban to predict the spatial distribution of traffic derived PM10 in Chennai, India

Justin Cairns, Civil Engineering & Geosciences/Transport Operations Research Group, Newcastle University.

Participatory action research on rural livelihood and technology issues in India

Dr. Tom Wakeford and Jasber Singh, PEALS Research Centre, Newcastle University

Performance Based Seismic Design for Buildings and Structures

Dr. Mohamed Rouainia, Dr Sean Wilkinson and Mr. Chandra Vemury (Newcastle University)
Prof. Ashok Gupta, Prof. A.K. Jain and Dr. Alok Madan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)

Out of India: Can the World Bank replicate the Anand Pattern in Africa?

Dr. Bruce Scholten, Department of Geography, Durham University

Biochar for carbon sequestration and soil improvements in Southern India

Dr Pattanathu Rahman and Dr Chris Ennis, School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University/
Prof. C. Namasivayam, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Indo-UK Collaborative Project: Microbial communities in petroleum pipeline and its relationship with bio-corrosion

Aruliah Rajasekar and Sundaram Maruthamuthu, Biocorrosion Group, Corrosion Protection Division, Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, India/
Dr Pattanathu K.S.M. Rahman, School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University

Indo-UK Project: Development of activated adsorbents from biomass using biosurfactant for the removal of toxic substances from water

Dr Pattanathu K.S.M. Rahman, School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University/
Professor C. Namasivayam, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India

Collaborating through Culture

Hannah Marsden, Newcastle University

Dalits, religious conversion and social identity

Dr. Dave Morland, School of Social Sciences and Law, Teesside University

Glycosyltransferases for the synthesis of sterol glycosides

Vatsala Malik, School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University

Gas Sensors Biomaterials

Dr. Girish M Kale, Reader in Solid State Ionics, Institute for Materials Research, University of Leeds

The Future Prospects for Power Generation from Underground Coal Gasification (UCG)

Dr. L.K.Mudashiru and Prof. D. Roddy, Sir Joseph Swan Institute for Energy Research, Newcastle University