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International Exeter
annual report
2013/14
partnership engagement
India
This talk was very well received and the editors of the
NLS Law Review asked that it should be expanded into a
full-length article for publication. In January 2014, Professor
Robert Lee met NLSIU environment law specialists,
Dr Sairam Bhat and Dr M K Ramesh, to discuss mutual
research interests. Professor Lee has subsequently been
appointed to the editorial board of NLSIU’s Journal
of Environmental Law, Policy and Development and
has begun conversations about research in the area of
Nanotechnology.
Elsewhere in Bangalore, Professor Abhay Abhyankar of the
Business School visited the Indian Institute of Management,
Bangalore in November 2013 to present research on
Dividend Growth Predictability, and to meet Dr Srinivasan
Rangan, IIM-B’s Director of Research, to discuss a way
forward on the research partnership between both
institutions. Business School PhD student Mario Pansera
spent August to December 2013 at the Indian Institute
of Management, Bangalore, completing a four-month
research project entitled “The Environment Sustainability
of Frugal Innovation” under the supervision of IIM-B’s
Professor Rishikesha Krishnan and Professor
Sourav Mukherji.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta,
Professor Suranjan Das, visited Exeter in May 2013 to
meet Professor Sir Steve Smith to discuss possible future
institutional collaboration, and to meet colleagues in
History. (Calcutta’s History Department is accredited by
the University Grants Committee as a Centre of Advanced
Studies status, and Professor Das is himself a historian.)
Professor Andrew Thorpe visited the University of
Calcutta (at the invitation of Professor Das) in February
2014 to continue discussions about institutional links, to
participate in a National Seminar on Revolutionary History
hosted by Calcutta’s History Department, and to deliver
a guest lecture.
Engaging with our Indian alumni is a central part of’ Team
India’s role, and the Development and Alumni Relations
Office and the International Office have worked tirelessly
to strengthen engagement in country. In November 2013,
Professor Abhay Abhyankar and Helen Freeman from the
Business School hosted an extremely successful alumni
event in Mumbai. In February 2014, Professor Andrew
Shaw and James McNaughton hosted another successful
event in Delhi attended by alumni of programmes
from the Business School, and the Colleges of Life and
Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Mathematics
and Physical Sciences.
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University of Exeter students celebrate the
Hindu festival of Holi in the Ram Bar garden
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