Dr Apurba Kundu
BA (Leeds), MA (Johns Hopkins USAIS), PhD (LSE)
Deputy Dean, Academic Development
Room: Hel 238Email: Apurba.Kundu@anglia.ac.uk
Telephone: 0845 196 2274
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2274
After growing-up in Jamaica, India, Ghana and the USA, Apurba came to the UK to study for a BA (Joint Honours) English Literature/Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He then undertook an MA in International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna and Washington DC, before returning to England to gain a PhD in Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Apurba recently joined Anglia Ruskin University from the University of Bradford where he was Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the School of Computing, Informatics and Media, and a senior lecturer in the Bradford Media School. Apurba also has lectured at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Chatham University, Pittsburgh; and served as Ruth Glass Memorial Fellow at the LSE Development Studies Institute, and Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute for Asian Studies, Brussels.
In addition to his academic appointment as Deputy Dean, Apurba is currently Principal Investigator of 'Fair Tracing: empowering producers and consumers by providing enriched information about the roots of goods and services', a £411k EPSRC project close to completion involving colleagues from the University of Oxford, Royal Holloway, and Sheffield Hallam University. He is also a member of the editorial boards, respectively, of Contemporary South Asia (having been its editor from 1998-2007), and the Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, Germany. Apurba serves on the Council of Management of the British Association of South Asian Studies, is an associate of the University of Bradford Pakistan Security Research Unit, and a member of The European Library Users Advisory Board, Netherlands.
His teaching, writing and research interests range across civil-military relations, the politics and security of South Asia, cyberpsychology, and cyberethics.
Apurba recently joined Anglia Ruskin University from the University of Bradford where he was Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the School of Computing, Informatics and Media, and a senior lecturer in the Bradford Media School. Apurba also has lectured at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Chatham University, Pittsburgh; and served as Ruth Glass Memorial Fellow at the LSE Development Studies Institute, and Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute for Asian Studies, Brussels.
In addition to his academic appointment as Deputy Dean, Apurba is currently Principal Investigator of 'Fair Tracing: empowering producers and consumers by providing enriched information about the roots of goods and services', a £411k EPSRC project close to completion involving colleagues from the University of Oxford, Royal Holloway, and Sheffield Hallam University. He is also a member of the editorial boards, respectively, of Contemporary South Asia (having been its editor from 1998-2007), and the Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, Germany. Apurba serves on the Council of Management of the British Association of South Asian Studies, is an associate of the University of Bradford Pakistan Security Research Unit, and a member of The European Library Users Advisory Board, Netherlands.
His teaching, writing and research interests range across civil-military relations, the politics and security of South Asia, cyberpsychology, and cyberethics.
Sample publications
'The Fair Tracing project: mapping a traceable value chain for Indian coffee' (with Ashima Chopra) Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 17:2 June 2009, 213-223
'The Fair Tracing project: digital tracing technology and Indian coffee' (with Ashima Chopra) Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 16:2 June 2008, pp 217-230
'Curry Powder' in S. Sayyid, N. Ali, V.S. Kalra (eds) A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain (London: Hurst & Co, 2006), pp 72-3
'The National Democratic Alliance and National Security,' in K. Adeney and L. Saez (eds), Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism (London: Routledge, 2005) pp 212-236
'How will the return of the Congress Party affect Indian Foreign and Security Policy?' European Institute for Asian Studies Policy Brief (Brussels) 04:02 June 2004, pp 1-4
'India's National Security under the BJP: "Strong at Home, Engaged Abroad"', European Institute for Asian Studies Briefing Paper (Brussels) 04:02 June 2004, pp 1-36
'India's National Security under the BJP: "Strong at Home, Engaged Abroad"', EurAsia Bulletin (Brussels) 8:3&4, March-April 2004, pp 13-16
'Outcomes and implications of the twelfth SAARC summit in Islamabad' (with Tariq Fatemi, P.K. Singh, Maudud Ali, Narayan S. Thapa and C.R. Jayasinghe), Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 13:1 March 2004, pp 79-90
'India as a Regional Power - Superpower of the Future?', in Subrata K. Mitra and Bernd Rill (eds), Indien heute: Brennpunkte seiner Innenpolitik: Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen 41 (Munich: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, 2003), pp 161-182
'Chima Okorie's "Passage to India"' (with Novy Kapadia), Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 10:2 July 2002, pp 265-272
'Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Realities and Interpretations' (with Ananya Mukherjee Reed), Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 9:2 July 2000, pp 127-139
Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus (London: Tauris Academic Publishers, 1998; New York: St Martins Press, 1998; New Delhi: Viva Books Private Limited, 1999) pp 230
'Nuclear Testing and Indian Military Officers', BASAS Bulletin, 2:6 May 1998, p 5
'Commissioned Officers in India and the Emergency, 1975-1977', Contemporary Political Studies 1996: Volume 1 (Belfast: The Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, 1996) pp 537-545
'Friend or Foe? Commissioned Indian Officers and Indira's Emergency Rule', Defence Today (Meerut) 4:2 April-June 1996, pp 281-290
'The Attitudes of Commissioned Indian Officers Towards the Indian Nationalist Movement', University of Bradford Department of Social and Economic Studies Working Paper (Bradford) number 95.7, 1995, pp. 1-28
'Commissioned Indian Officers and the Indian National Armies of World War II', Defence Today (Meerut) 2:2 May 1994, pp 109-120
'Operation Blue Star and Sikh and Non-Sikh Indian Military Officers', Pacific Affairs (Vancouver) 67:1 Spring 1994, pp 46-69
'The Ayodhya Aftermath: Hindu Versus Muslim Violence in Britain', Immigrants and Minorities (London) 13:1 March 1994, pp 26-47
'Commissioned Indian Officers and the Independence Movement During the Interwar Years', Defence Today (Meerut) 2:1 February 1994, pp 127-134
'UK Asians' Reaction to the Destruction of Ayodhya's Babri Masjid', Defence Today (Meerut) 1:2 November 1993, pp 88-103
'The Indian Armed Forces' Sikh and Non-Sikh Officers' Opinions of Operation Blue Star', Punjab Research Group Discussion Series Paper (Coventry) number 39, 1992, pp. 1-33
'The Indian Army's Continued Dependence on Martial Races' Officers', Indian Defence Review (New Delhi) July 1991, pp 69-84
'Civil-Military Relations in India: Why No Coup?', Asian Affairs (Dhaka) 7:3 July-Sept 1985, pp 1-22
'The Fair Tracing project: mapping a traceable value chain for Indian coffee' (with Ashima Chopra) Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 17:2 June 2009, 213-223
'The Fair Tracing project: digital tracing technology and Indian coffee' (with Ashima Chopra) Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 16:2 June 2008, pp 217-230
'Curry Powder' in S. Sayyid, N. Ali, V.S. Kalra (eds) A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain (London: Hurst & Co, 2006), pp 72-3
'The National Democratic Alliance and National Security,' in K. Adeney and L. Saez (eds), Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism (London: Routledge, 2005) pp 212-236
'How will the return of the Congress Party affect Indian Foreign and Security Policy?' European Institute for Asian Studies Policy Brief (Brussels) 04:02 June 2004, pp 1-4
'India's National Security under the BJP: "Strong at Home, Engaged Abroad"', European Institute for Asian Studies Briefing Paper (Brussels) 04:02 June 2004, pp 1-36
'India's National Security under the BJP: "Strong at Home, Engaged Abroad"', EurAsia Bulletin (Brussels) 8:3&4, March-April 2004, pp 13-16
'Outcomes and implications of the twelfth SAARC summit in Islamabad' (with Tariq Fatemi, P.K. Singh, Maudud Ali, Narayan S. Thapa and C.R. Jayasinghe), Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 13:1 March 2004, pp 79-90
'India as a Regional Power - Superpower of the Future?', in Subrata K. Mitra and Bernd Rill (eds), Indien heute: Brennpunkte seiner Innenpolitik: Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen 41 (Munich: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, 2003), pp 161-182
'Chima Okorie's "Passage to India"' (with Novy Kapadia), Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 10:2 July 2002, pp 265-272
'Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Realities and Interpretations' (with Ananya Mukherjee Reed), Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis) 9:2 July 2000, pp 127-139
Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus (London: Tauris Academic Publishers, 1998; New York: St Martins Press, 1998; New Delhi: Viva Books Private Limited, 1999) pp 230
'Nuclear Testing and Indian Military Officers', BASAS Bulletin, 2:6 May 1998, p 5
'Commissioned Officers in India and the Emergency, 1975-1977', Contemporary Political Studies 1996: Volume 1 (Belfast: The Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, 1996) pp 537-545
'Friend or Foe? Commissioned Indian Officers and Indira's Emergency Rule', Defence Today (Meerut) 4:2 April-June 1996, pp 281-290
'The Attitudes of Commissioned Indian Officers Towards the Indian Nationalist Movement', University of Bradford Department of Social and Economic Studies Working Paper (Bradford) number 95.7, 1995, pp. 1-28
'Commissioned Indian Officers and the Indian National Armies of World War II', Defence Today (Meerut) 2:2 May 1994, pp 109-120
'Operation Blue Star and Sikh and Non-Sikh Indian Military Officers', Pacific Affairs (Vancouver) 67:1 Spring 1994, pp 46-69
'The Ayodhya Aftermath: Hindu Versus Muslim Violence in Britain', Immigrants and Minorities (London) 13:1 March 1994, pp 26-47
'Commissioned Indian Officers and the Independence Movement During the Interwar Years', Defence Today (Meerut) 2:1 February 1994, pp 127-134
'UK Asians' Reaction to the Destruction of Ayodhya's Babri Masjid', Defence Today (Meerut) 1:2 November 1993, pp 88-103
'The Indian Armed Forces' Sikh and Non-Sikh Officers' Opinions of Operation Blue Star', Punjab Research Group Discussion Series Paper (Coventry) number 39, 1992, pp. 1-33
'The Indian Army's Continued Dependence on Martial Races' Officers', Indian Defence Review (New Delhi) July 1991, pp 69-84
'Civil-Military Relations in India: Why No Coup?', Asian Affairs (Dhaka) 7:3 July-Sept 1985, pp 1-22
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