About us
The White Rose University Consortium facilitates collaboration in research, learning and teaching, and public engagement between the Universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield.
Together, these three world-leading universities boast an exceptional concentration of scholars working in the interdisciplinary area of South Asian studies.
Encouraging interdisciplinarity
Our network includes scholars and postgraduate students from the humanities, social sciences and education. We have particular strengths in South Asian history, literature, politics, geography, sociology and religion, urban studies and town planning, landscape architecture, education and nursing.
Supporting research
Research collaborations and postgraduate supervision are facilitated through overlapping interests in five areas:
Travel, migration and diaspora
Writing and representation
Health, medicine and the body
Gender, sexuality and the family
Citizenship, voting and the state
Delivering resources
The White Rose Universities have a wealth of archival and community resources providing the basis of a northern hub around South Asian studies. These resources include growing archival collections in the form of collected series of correspondence, digital collections and online archives.
Connecting communities
The White Rose region has a number of community, cultural and religious institutions with which our scholars are linked to further South Asian studies. Among them are the Bradford Literature Festival, South Asian Arts UK, and the Hindu Samaj.
