
Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Lead Chief Investigator
About Kuntala
Areas of expertise
- Natural Resource Management
- Gender Specific Studies
- Economic Geography
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Economic Development Policy
- Anthropology Of Development
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality
- Social And Cultural Geography
- Studies Of Asian Society
- Human Geography
- Other Studies In Creative Arts And Writing

Dr Itishree Pattnaik
About Itishree
Dr Pattnaik has been awarded the Post-Doctoral fellowship by Food Security Centre (FSC), University of Hohenheim, Germany. During the fellowship period, she worked on various issues related to Status of Food Security in India.
Her major areas of interest include agriculture and sustainable development, inter-state disparities in growth performance and food security. She has published in various referred academic journals like Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economic and Political Weekly, Artha Vijnana. She has presented her academic work at various national and international seminar and conferences.

Bill Pritchard
Chief Investigator
Teaching and supervision
- GEOS 1001 (Earth, Environment and Society) http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/units_of_study/us_junior.shtml
- GEOS 2123 (The Geography of Cities and Regions) http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/units_of_study/us_geos2123.shtml
- GEOS 3254 (Global Development and Livelihoods) http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/units_of_study/us_geos3514.shtml
- GEOS 3333 (Geographical Concepts, Skills and Methods) http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/units_of_study/us_geos3333.shtml
Over the decade to 2013, Bill supervised 23 Honours students and five PhD students.
Current Projects
- ARC Discovery Project ‘Institutions for Food Security: Global Insights from Rural India’ (2010-14)
- ARC Linkage Project ‘Rural adjustment or structural transformation? Discovering the destinations of exiting farm families’ (2010-15)
- ARC Discovery Project ‘Farmers of the Future: Challenges emerging from a Feminised Agriculture in India’ (2014-16)

Dr Patrick Kilby
Chief Investigator
Area of Expertise
- Migration
- Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation And Social Impact Assessment
- International Relations
- Social And Cultural Anthropology
- Economic Development Policy
- Social Policy
- Gender Specific Studies
- Economic Development And Growth
- Political Science
- Studies Of Asian Society
- Anthropology Of Development
Research interests
- Non-Governmental Organisations.
- Empowerment and marginalisation.
- Gender.
- Managing development activities.
- South Asia, particularly India.

Stewart Lockie
Chief Investigator
Area of Expertise
- Environmental Sociology
- Environment Policy
- Rural Sociology
- Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation And Social Impact Assessment
Research interests
- Environmental sociology.
- Sociology of food and agriculture.
- Development studies.
- Social impact assessment.