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Email: indrajit.roy(at)york.ac.uk

I am Senior Lecturer - Global Development Politics at the Department of Politics, University of York. Prior to joining York, I was ESRC Research Fellow at the Department of International Development and James Martin Fellow at the Oxford Martin School and International Migration Institute (IMI) Network. I was also a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Research Associate at the Department of International DevelopmentUniversity of Oxford.  

 

I research and teach the politics of development, understood broadly as an ensemble of practices, processes and possibilities that encompass economic change and social transformation. My work illustrates the profound ways in which agents in the Global South disrupt prevailing understandings of development, thereby exploring the global possibilities of development and reframing the discipline. (read more...)

 

I teach on undergraduate and taught-graduate courses in Politics at the University of York. Previously, I taught and tutored on the Politics of South Asia paper, MPhil Programme in Development Studies, MSc Contemporary India, and MSc in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. (read more...)

 

I have published in highly-ranked peer-reviewed academic journals such as World Development, Journal of Peasant Studies, Oxford Development Studies, Contributions to Indian Sociology and Journal of Contemporary Asia. (read more...)

 

I hold a DPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford.

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Dr Indrajit Roy 

I am Senior Lecturer - Global Development Politics at the Department of Politics, University of York. Prior to joining York, I was ESRC Research Fellow at the Department of International Development and James Martin Fellow at the Oxford Martin School and International Migration Institute (IMI) Network. I was also a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Research Associate at the Department of International DevelopmentUniversity of Oxford.  

 

I research and teach the politics of development, understood broadly as an ensemble of practices, processes and possibilities that encompass economic change and social transformation. My work illustrates the profound ways in which agents in the Global South disrupt prevailing understandings of development, thereby exploring the global possibilities of development and reframing the discipline. (read more...)

 

I teach on undergraduate and taught-graduate courses in Politics at the University of York. Previously, I taught and tutored on the Politics of South Asia paper, MPhil Programme in Development Studies, MSc Contemporary India, and MSc in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. (read more...)

 

I have published in highly-ranked peer-reviewed academic journals such as World Development, Journal of Peasant Studies, Oxford Development Studies, Contributions to Indian Sociology and Journal of Contemporary Asia. (read more...)

 

I hold a DPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford.

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Grants, Awards, and Prizes

  • ESRC EU-India Platform for Social Sciences Grant, 2019-2021

  • ESRC IAA grant 2018 - Business Boost Grant, University of York

  • ESRC IAA grant 2018 - Knowledge Exchange Grant, University of York

  • Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Grant 2017-2019

  • Teaching Excellence Award 2016, University of Oxford

  • Junior Research Fellowship 2015-2018, Wolfson College

  • ESRC Future Research Leaders Award 2014-17, University of Oxford

  • Sanjaya Lall Award  for Best Graduate student paper, 2013

  • International Growth Cente Research Grant 2014-2015 and 2016-2017

  • Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Grant 2013-2015

  • Democratic Cultures Research Grant 2013-2015

  • Swiss Development Cooperation Fellowship 2010-11

  • Oppenheimer Trust Fund 2011

  • Queen Elizabeth House Doctoral Scholarship 2008-2011

  • Oxford Development Studies Bursary 2010

  • St. Antony's College Bursary 2010

  • Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative Research Grant 2010

Affiliation/Membership

  • Member, American Political Studies Association, 2019 till date

  • Chair, Development Politics Specialist Group, Political Studies Association, 2015 till date

  • Co-convener, Annual Conference of the Development Studies Association, 2016.

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 2012 till date

  • Member, Executive Committee- Theater Folks, an Oxford-based community theatre group. 2009-

  • Member, Frances Stewart Bursary Allocation Committee. 2011-2012

  • Duty Warden, North Oxford Overseas Center, Oxford, UK. 2010-2011

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