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UCL in South Asia
“UCL’s reputation in South Asia is rising and our networks and connections are expanding, helped by our emphasis on high-quality research and underpinned by the Global Engagement Strategy. This will ensure that UCL positions itself as ‘partner of choice’ in India and beyond in South Asia.
Professor Monica Lakhanpaul
Global Strategic Academic Advisor (India)
MAKING AN IMPACT
UCL community
There are 713 students from South Asia at UCL.
UCL has 4,612 alumni in South Asia.
Meet Noorain Inam, from Karachi, Pakistan, studying for a Master's at UCL and winner of this year's Bloomsbury Festival Art Competition.
Find out about Dr Pushpa Arabindoo, UCL Department of Geography, and her research into urban transformation in Chennai, India.
UCL Engineering student Purvish Thaker, recognised by Forbes for his South Asian music YouTube channel.
Read about UCL student Sara's time on the International Summer School in New Delhi and subsequent volunteering opportunities in Bharatpur and Gurgaon.
Read the inspiring story of alumna Arifa Aminy, who left her home country, Afghanistan, to come to UCL in pursuit of education.
We're proud of our international and multi-cultural community which counts 713 students from South Asia currently studying at UCL and 4,612 UCL alumni in South Asia. Meet some of our students, alumni and academics through the slideshow above.
Research, partnerships and projects
UCL's first ever Summer School outside of the UK is UCL India Summer School launching in June 2024 at the state-of-the-art campus of The British School New Delhi.
Collective groundwater pumping by millions of farmers in Bangladesh has created vast natural reservoirs underground that rival the world’s largest dams.
Professor Gareth Williams (UCL School of Pharmacy) has been collaborating with the University of Colombo to develop smart fabric research capabilities in Sri Lanka.
Researchers and professionals are developing solutions to address major social and economic challenges facing people of Pakistani origin, wherever they live worldwide.
A UK-India collaboration is changing the way patients are screened for diabetes-related sight loss and helping to reduce the burden of blindness in India.
Two UCL Bartlett alumni, Tanya Khanna and Anika Mittal, launched the Knowledge for a Cause campaign to help the post-pandemic world.
UCL has sent a total of 1,160 breathing aids to India and 130 to Nepal to support the countries’ fight against a Covid-19 surge.
To help support and promote activity, UCL has a South Asia Regional Network and a Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. Check the slideshow for examples of how we're delivering impact.
GET INVOLVED
Current and future partners
Partnership enquiries
We are keen to develop partnerships and collaborations with universities and institutions in South Asia. If you are interested in exploring ways to work with UCL, contact Senior Global Engagement Manager (South & South East Asia), Dr Amit Khandelwal.
Existing partners include:
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UCL's Grand Challenge of Cultural Understanding worked on and supported a number of initiatives under the heading India Voices throughout 2017 and 2018. Through community engaged research, public and academic discourse and policy engagement, the aim of India Voices was to effect social impact.
