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Research

Through its interdisciplinary approach to sustainability research, the OICSD develops a broader understanding around developmental challenges facing the Indian subcontinent.

The Centre’s Research Director leads the academic programme, which is structured around three impact themes:

Environmental Sustainability

The OICSD’s sustainable nutrition research explores how to change the food system while protecting the environment.

Questions about the relationship between cities and how climate change influences the mismanagement of rivers, the lives and rights of access to the city, the position of mobile labour, and questions of waste are explored at the centre.

Healthcare Innovation

Researchers at the OICSD are developing novel remote technologies that can be deployed as reliable, non-invasive and inexpensive diagnostic support tools in home and community settings.

Food and Water Security

The vital role played by water in life and livelihood is explored, from how to achieve sustainable water use on farms in India, improving coastal coral reef ecosystems, to water risk management in urban settings.

Climate Change and Clean Energy

The Centre’s work examines the productive tensions between urban transitions, energy services consumption and climate change, with an eye to India’s early but fast-paced urbanisation.

Climate Change and India reading group

Students, senior researchers and faculty from all disciplines are invited to this reading group on climate change debates specific to the Indian context.