2011-14 ESRC-DFID award £ 290k for research into the Materiality of Rice, India (Resources, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Technology and Work in Production and Distribution Systems: Rice in India) (CSASP, SIAS)
2008-11 Oxford University Fell Fund: £67,000 towards the creation of a research culture for Contemporary South Asian Studies around the MSc in Contemporary India.
2008-10 Honorary Research Project Leader, EU Excellence Initiative (under the direction of Prof Subrata Mitra, Heidelberg University), Economic Citizenship and Inclusive Development
2006-8 Oxford University Fell Fund £39,000 for project on Outcastes, Tribals and Modern Indian Capitalism (with Aseem Prakash, IHD, New Delhi; Kaushal Vidyarthee,Oxford University; Deepak Mishra, JNU, India; and Vandana Upadhyay, Rajiv Gandhi University,Itanagar Arunachal Pradesh, India
2005 Wenner-Grenn Foundation. New York, $11,000 for Project on Socialisation into Work in India (main researcher : Camilla Roman)
2004 Wenner-Grenn Foundation, New York, $ 24,450 for Project on Identity Economics in Nigeria (main researcher : Dr Kate Meagher)
2001-3 QEH Oxford and NCAER, New Delhi for DfID funded Project: Trade Liberalisation and the Informal Economy in India (£105,000 + £10,000)
DISSEMINATION AWARDS
1995-6 ODA for a development film; 'Meals Ready....' on rural exchange relations and markets in India based on my research and directed by Surajit Sarkar of 'The Other Media' for national and international distribution (including Indian TV) (£30,000). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jf6jzPIAU
1995 ODA Dhaka and London for the Conference on Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh, Calcutta (£14,000)
1994-5 ODA towards the publication of 'A Political Economy of Agricultural Markets in South India: Masters of the Countryside' (£10,000)
1990-1 ODA towards publication of ‘Child Poverty and Malnutrition in South India’ (£5,000)