Associate Fellow, Asia Programme

Telephone:	+44 (0)20 7612 6387
(Out of Hours)	+44 (0)20 7267 1716 / 07729 007031
Contact:	Email Dr Marie Lall

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Expertise

• Politics of South Asia
• India and Pakistan: Political economy, foreign policy formulation including pipeline diplomacy, Indo-Burmese relations, migration and Diaspora politics
• Education policy with regard to gender, race and social exclusion issues in developed and developing countries
• Education policy in India and Pakistan
• Formation of National Identity in South Asia;

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Projects

• Changes of Indian foreign policy vis-à-vis its neighbours under the BJP government
• India's pipeline diplomacy - focus on Myanmar, Iran and Pakistan
• The radicalization of India's Diaspora
• Indian textbooks project
• Pakistan's education reform
• Project on achievement of children of Asian origin (forthcoming)
  

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Recent Publications

2007/8 (forthcoming)

• 'Globalization and the fundamentalization of curricula: lessons from Inida' in Camp-Yeakley, Hopson and Boakari (eds.) Power, Voice, and the Public Good: Schooling and Education in Globalized Societies, Elsevier.
• 'Pakistan today' inDeRouen, K. and Bellamy, P. , International Security and Society.
• 'Educate to hate - the use of education in the creation of antagonistic national identities in India and Pakistan', in Compare.
• 'Diaspora and Homeland Politics: Comparative Experiences of mobilisation for Hindutva and Khalistan' with Shinder Thandiin Leclerc, E. (ed.) Indian Diasporas, Manohar, Delhi.

2006

• Indian Students in Europe - Trends, constraints and Prospects - living in the age of migration. ENCARI Briefing Paper.(http://www.encari.eu/papers/Indian_students_in_Europe.pdf)
• 'Indo-Myanmar Relations in the era of Pipeline Diplomacy' in Contemporary South East Asia, Vo 28, Number 3.

2005

• 'Education in India at the Crossroads' in South Asian Journal, number 10, Oct-Dec 2005.
• 'Institutional attempts to build a 'national' identity in India: Internal and external dimensions' with K. Adeney in India Review Vol.4 n.3.
• 'Indian education policy under the NDA government' in K. Adeney and L. Saez (eds.) Coalition politics and Hindu nationalism, Routledge, London.
• 'The Challenges for India's education system', Chatham House Briefing Paper

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Experience

2006 - Date	Lecturer, Institute of Education
2003 - 2006	Visiting Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
2002 - Date	Principal Researcher, Education Policy Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London

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Broadcast Experience

Some

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Languages

English, German, French - broadcast Spanish, Portuguese and basic Hindi - not for broadcast