Professor Sudhir Chella Rajan
Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability
Sudhir Chella Rajan, Senior Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability, is a Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has a generalist’s research career at the interface of environmental studies and politics, with a special focus on climate justice, understood in broad terms as involving energy and resource equity, local and regional adaptive governance to deter elite domination, and inter-generational guarantees for eco-social flourishing.
Professor Roger Jeffery
University of Edinburgh
Roger Jeffery is a Professorial Fellow in the Sociology of South Asia. He has written widely on health policy in India (see his path-breaking book, The Politics of Health in India) and has been a visiting fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University as well as at the Institute of Economic Growth, both in Delhi.
Varda Mehrotra
Varda Mehrotra is an animal advocate and movement builder, exploring intersectional solutions. Most recently, she founded Samayu to undertake intersectional work and apply a systems approach for issues surrounding justice and animals. Under her decade-long leadership, FIAPO – India’s federation for animal organisations – was recognised as one of the most effective animal charities. She has spearheaded several programmes for both immediate and long-term responses to dog conflict in various parts of India.
Professor Abigail Woods
King’s College London / University of Lincoln
Abigail Woods is a historian of science, technology and medicine. She is Pro Vice Chancellor/Head of College of Arts, University of Lincoln. Reflecting her earlier career as a veterinary surgeon, her research focuses on the history of animals, animal health and livestock agriculture in modern Britain, the evolution of veterinary medicine, and the history of animals within human medicine.
Dr Miguel Garcia-Sancho
University of Edinburgh
Miguel Garcia-Sancho is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies of the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in the history of contemporary biomedicine, with special emphasis on the transition between molecular biology and new forms of knowledge production at the fall of the 20th century: biotechnology, bioinformatics and genomics.
Professor Nick Hopkins
University of Dundee
Nick Hopkins is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Dundee. His main fields of interest are in collective behaviour and the ways in which this behaviour is mediated by social psychological processes such as identification with social groups/identities. In recent times, much of his research has been carried out in India, using a mixture of survey, interview/ethnographic and experimental methods in a large project (with Stephen Reicher) funded by the ESRC.
Professor Marc Bekoff
University of Colorado, Boulder
Marc Bekoff is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His main fields of interest are animal behaviour, cognitive ethology (the study of animal minds), behavioural ecology, and compassionate conservation.
Dr Jonathan Saha
University of Durham
Jonathan Saha is Associate Professor in History and specialises in the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism in Southeast Asia, focusing particularly on British Burma.
Dr Rohan Deb Roy
University of Reading
Rohan Deb Roy is Lecturer in South Asian History who has produced ground-breaking work on the histories of public health and animals in colonial India. He is the author of Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and co-editor (with Guy Attewell) of Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Dr Syed Shahid Abbas
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
Syed Abbas is a physician and public health researcher with significant experience of working on zoonotic diseases in South Asia.
Dr Andy Gibson
Director of Strategic Research
Mission Rabies
Andy Gibson is a veterinary practitioner with extensive experience in street dog management and rabies prevention programmes in Africa and India. Mission Rabies is an international charity that runs One Health-informed rabies prevention programmes in South Asia and Africa.
Professor Gail Davies
University of Exeter
Gail Davies is a human geographer whose research is focused on the understanding the relationships between different ways of knowing nonhuman animals, environments, and human health in public, policy, and science. She is a Chief Investigator on a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Sciences project ‘The Animal Research Nexus: Changing Constitutions of Science, Health and Welfare’.
Dr V Ramasubramanian
Visiting Professor of Infectious Diseases
Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre and MGR Medical University, Chennai
V Ramasubramanian is Senior Consultant in Infectious Diseases, HIV & Tropical Medicine at Apollo Hospital, Chennai, and Visiting Professor at the MGR Medical University. Trained in India and at the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine, he has played a key role in establishing infectious diseases as a speciality in India.
Professor Sally Sheard
University of Liverpool
Sally Sheard is the Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Professor of Modern History. She is a health policy and medical historian, with a special interest in the interface between expert advisers and policymakers. She is a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, leading a seven-year project (2015-2022): The Governance of Health: Medical, Economic and Managerial Expertise in Britain since 1948.
Professor Stephen Hinchliffe
University of Exeter
Steve Hinchliffe is Principal Investigator and Deputy Director for Research of the Wellcome Trust funded Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (2017-), University of Exeter. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and author and editor of numerous books and articles on One Health, biosecurity, human-nonhuman relations and nature conservation.
Professor Manish Jha
Centre for Community Organisation and Development Practice, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
Professor Manish Jha’s academic career spans over two decades of teaching and research on Social Policy, Social Action and Social Movement, Rural Society and State, and Community Organization and Development Practice. He co-leads, with Krithika Srinivasan, the TISS – University of Edinburgh Human-Animal Studies Initiative.