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Dean International (India)

Qualifications

• MA (University of Cambridge)
• MSc (Soc Sci) (University of Bristol)
• PhD (University of Edinburgh)

Research Interests

I have conducted a variety of research projects in India since 1972, including research in village and small-town north India looking at how religious group membership and caste interrelate with childbearing, fertility behaviour, gender politics and schooling, in the context of agrarian change and the decline of the state. Since 2005 I have been involved in a series of projects on contemporary issues in public health in India and elsewhere, and I am currently Principal Investigator in Edinburgh on two externally-funded research projects:

(a) A grant from Phase 2 of the ESRC/DFID Joint Programme of research on poverty alleviation, entitled "Biomedical and Health Experimentation in South Asia: Critical Perspectives on Collaboration, Governance and Competition" from September 2010 for two years. This involves colleagues in Edinburgh (Ian Harper, Anuj Kapilashrami) and in Durham (Bob Simpson, Salla Sariola) and also in Mumbai, Kathmandu and Colombo. For more details see http://www.bhesa.org/Home.

(b) From May 2010 for 3 years, a grant from the EU FP7 programme, looking at Access to Medicines in Africa and South Asia. This involves colleagues in Edinburgh (Petra Sevcikova, Jude Murison & Valerie Evans), in Queen Mary, London (Allyson Pollock) and partners in Belgium, India, South Africa, Switzerland and Uganda. For more details see http://www.amasa-project.eu/

In addition, a grant from Phase 1 of the ESRC/DFID Joint Programme of research on poverty alleviation entitled ‘Tracing Pharmaceuticals in South Asia ' concluded in December 2009. Other Edinburgh participants were Patricia Jeffery, Ian Harper, Stefan Ecks, Petra Sevcikova and Allyson Pollock (www.sps.ed.ac.uk/csas/research_projects/tracing_phramaceuticals).

I was also the Edinburgh PI for a Research Programme Consortium, funded by DfID and led by Professor Christopher Colclough (University of Cambridge) on 'Educational Outcomes and Poverty in India, Pakistan, Kenya and Ghana' (2005-10) (for more details see http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/) As part of this research programme, we developed an on-line facilitator's manual for training in qualitative research methods, accessible at http://manual.recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

For more information on a recently completed project on secondary schooling in North India, see http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/upproject/index.html.

I am also a member of the Strategic Advisory Team for the ESRC/DFID Joint Scheme for International Development (poverty alleviation).

Office Hours

Thursdays 15:00 to 16:30; Room 2:06, 8 Buccleuch Place.

Recent Publications

Books since 2001

2010: Anthony F. Heath & Roger Jeffery (eds) Diversity and Change: Economics, Politics and Society in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, Oxford, for the British Academy, Proceedings No. 159, ISBN: 978-0-19-726451-5)

2008: Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery & Roger Jeffery, Degrees without Freedom? Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in north India (Stanford University Press, Stanford) ISBN-10: 0-8047-5743-7 (Hb) ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5743-0 (Pb)

2006: Patricia Jeffery & Roger Jeffery: Confronting Saffron Demography: Religion, Fertility, and Women's Status in India, Three Essays Collective, New Delhi, ISBN 81-88789-38-0 (Hb) and 81-88789-40-2 (Pb)

2003: Roger Jeffery & Jens Lerche (eds): Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh: European Perspectives, Manohar, New Delhi (ISBN: 8173045003)

2001: Nandini Sundar, Roger Jeffery & Neil Thin: Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in Four Indian States, Oxford University Press, Delhi, Oxford and New York (ISBN: 0-19-565652-0)

2001: Roger Jeffery & Bhaskar Vira (eds): Conflict and Cooperation in Participatory Natural Resource Management, Palgrave, London and New York (ISBN: 0-333-79277-7)

2001: Bhaskar Vira & Roger Jeffery (eds): Analytical Issues in Participatory Natural Resource Management, Palgrave, London and New York (ISBN: 0-333-79276-9)

Selected Articles and Book Chapters since 2005

2011: Petra Brhlikova, Ian Harper, Roger Jeffery, Nabin Rawal, Madhusudan Subedi, & Santhosh, M. R. 'Trust and the Regulation of Pharmaceuticals: South Asia in a Globalised World.' Globalisation and Health, 7(10) http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/7/1/10.

2011: Roger Jeffery, Craig Jeffrey & Patricia Jeffery. 'Rural Jats in Bijnor: Are they Middle Class?' in Amita Baviskar & Raka Ray (eds) Both Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes, Routledge, New Delhi & London

2010: Patricia Jeffery & Roger Jeffery. ‘Polio in north India: What Next? Economic and Political Weekly, April, 45, 10: 23-26

2010: Roger Jeffery & Anthony F. Heath: 'Incongruities, Ironies and Achievements: India's Tryst with Modernity' in Anthony F. Heath & Roger Jeffery (eds) Diversity and Change: Economics, Politics and Society in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, Oxford, for the British Academy, Proceedings No. 159)

2009: Roger Jeffery & Santhosh, M. R: ‘The architecture of drug regulation in India: can it be reformed?’ Journal of Health Studies, 2, 1-3, 13-32

2009: Hugo Gorringe, Roger Jeffery, & Salla Sariola, 'Ethnographic Insights into Enduring Inequalities' Journal of South Asian Development 4 (1), 1-6.

2009: Nidhi Singal & Roger Jeffery “Transitions to adulthood for young people with disabilities in India: Current status and emerging prospects”, Asia Pacific Disability Rehabiliatation Journal, 19, 1: 15-40

2008: Roger Jeffery & Nidhi Singal: 'Disability Estimates in India: A Changing Landscape of Socio-Political Struggle', Economic and Political Weekly, 43, 12 & 13: 22-24

2008: Craig Jeffrey, Roger Jeffery, & Patricia Jeffery, 'School and madrasah education: Gender and the strategies of Muslim young men in rural north India', Compare, 38(5), 581-93

2007: Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery & Craig Jeffrey, 'Patterns and Discourses of the Privatisation of Secondary Schooling in Bijnor, UP', in Joachim Österheld and Krishna Kumar (eds) The Politics of Education in South Asia, Orient Longman, New Delhi.

2007: Roger Jeffery, ‘Education and Religious Minorities’ in The Oxford Companion to Economics in India (ed) Kaushik Basu, pp. 118-121, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

2007: Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery & Mohan Rao, ‘Safe Motherhood Initiatives: Contributions from Small Scale Studies’ Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 14, 2: 285-94.

2007: Roger Jeffery, Stefan Ecks & Petra Brhlikova: ‘Prescribing regulation: rethinking the TRIPS and GMP regimes’ Biblio, September-October: 30-31

2006: Roger Jeffery, Craig Jeffrey & Patricia Jeffery, "Parha'i ka mahaul? An educational environment in Bijnor, UP", pp.116-140 in Geert de Neve & Henrike Donner (eds): The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India, Routledge, London.

2005: Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery & Craig Jeffrey, 'Social inequalities and the privatisation of secondary schooling in north India'. In Radhika Chopra & Patricia Jeffery (eds) Educational Regimes in Contemporary India, pp. 41-61, Sage, New Delhi, Thousand Oaks and London (ISBN: 0-7619-3348-4)

2005: Roger Jeffery & Patricia Jeffery, ‘Saffron Demography, Common Wisdom, Aspirations and Uneven Governmentalities', Economic and Political Weekly 40, 5: 447-53. (ISSN: 0012-9976)

PhD in South Asian Studies; PhD in Sociology