As well as hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games, India is also the home of the current Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Kamalesh Sharma. For 50 years, the largest member of the Commonwealth has provided an increasing number of Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows,...
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Academic Fellow wins travel award
Dr Neena Malhotra was a Commonwealth Academic Fellow in 2003, working in Reproductive Medicine at the Assisted Reproductive Unit (ARU) at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. She was awarded the 2009-2010 Overseas Travel Fund by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology...
Scholar forms company offering laser scanning solutions
Dr Bharat Lohani completed his PhD at the University of Reading on a Commonwealth Scholarship in 1999, researching the use of laser scanning technology for topographic data capture. With some of his students at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, he created the...
Professional Fellow opens exhibition of photos from British Library
Prem Chand (2007 Professional Fellow, Education and Technology, Middlesex University) collaborated with his host institution to purchase digitised photographs of his employing institution's historical building. The Indian Institute of Advanced Study is based in the...
Recent alumni publications – November 2010
Dr Poonam Bala, who was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to complete a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1987, has published several books on the history of medicine and imperialism in India. These include Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical...
Academic Fellow wins UKIERI research award
Dr Shashikala Inamdar was awarded a Commonwealth Academic Fellowship at the School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Liverpool and she was later selected to present the results of her work at the 23rd Annual Lectin Meeting hosted by the Universities of ...
Scholar advises UN on gender and development
Indu Grover was awarded both a Commonwealth Scholarship, to study at the University of London between 1981 and 1984, and a Commonwealth Fellowship at Reading University from 1994 to 1995. In the Agricultural Research and Rural Development Department at Reading, she...
Academic journal founded by Scholar
After completing a PhD in Management Studies and Systems Thinking at the University of Lincoln in 1999, Professor Debiprasad Dash co-founded the Journal of Research Practice (JRP) in 2005, collaborating with researchers and scholars around the world, including at his...
Scholar CEO of world leader in carbon black
Dr Santrupt Misra, who completed a PhD at the Aston Business School of Aston University, is the Director of Human Resources for the Aditya Birla Group, a US$29 billion corporation which employs 130,600 people and was ranked in the top six places for leaders in the...
Professional Fellow awarded funding by UK’s Wellcome Trust to study malaria
Dr Anil Prakash was awarded a Commonwealth Professional Fellowship to work at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester in 2005. There he worked under the mentorship of Dr Catherine Walton on the molecular identification of the mosquito vectors of...
