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International Collaboration and Research for SDG Best Practice

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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AND RESEARCH FOR SDG BEST PRACTICE

JGU works with universities, academies and networks in other countries to develop and share good practice on the SDGs. Comparative research, joint training and exchange let us learn from partners and bring what works back to India.

ACU Commonwealth Peace and Reconciliation Challenge Grant

Dr. Kalyani Unkule, Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School, won the Commonwealth Peace and Reconciliation Challenge Grant 2020 from the Association of Commonwealth Universities. The project ran in 2021–22 and aimed to make the study abroad officer an agent of peace and reconciliation. It built on her 2019 monograph “Internationalising the University: A Spiritual Approach”. The ACU announced that JGU would design and deliver new training modules for this purpose. Outputs from these grants are shared with the Commonwealth Peace and Reconciliation Network, which carries the work to universities across the Commonwealth.

“Bordered but Not Broken: Women’s Agency and Livelihood Resilience in the India–Bangladesh Border” (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia)

Prof. Sunetra Ghatak of the Jindal School of Government & Public Policy leads the study. Her wider research covers gender and migration in India. The study looks at how women in India–Bangladesh border communities keep their livelihoods going despite the security regime, restricted movement, flooding and the absence of men who have migrated. It also compares Indian and Australian approaches to gender, borders and resilience.

South–South immersion programmes (Universitas Ciputra Surabaya, UPGRIS, HUTECH)
From 6 to 25 January 2025, Universitas Ciputra Surabaya hosted 20 JGU students for “Discover Indonesia: Business, Innovation, and Culture”. Students studied local businesses and visited a student business exhibition. Programmes like this show JGU students and staff how universities in other emerging economies approach entrepreneurship, community engagement and sustainability, and those approaches come back to JGU with them.

Naveen Jindal Young Global Research Fellowship

  • The fellowship is a fully funded international programme for doctoral scholars and early-career faculty.
  • Format and focus: A one-year research programme with a funded residency at JGU, centred on collaborative research across JGU’s network of over 500 partnerships in more than 75 countries. The fellowship marked its first anniversary on 9 March 2025.
  • Current cohort: The 2026–27 cohort brought nearly 130 Fellows from 26 countries and more than 70 universities to campus. The 2026 residency ran from 8 June to 10 July.
  • Relevance to the SDGs: Many fellows work on poverty, climate, health, gender and governance in their own countries. Interdisciplinary teams compare these problems across regions and share methods and practice.


Comparative research on constitutional courts and democracy (Dr. Max Steuer, Jindal Global Law School)

Dr. Steuer’s research compares how constitutional courts respond to democratic backsliding. His article “Rule of Law Minimalism and the Fear of ‘Politics’: The Slovak Constitutional Court Amidst the Illiberal Surge” was published in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 39(1), pp. 103–126. He also conceived and co-edits “Rethinking Democracy”, an academic blog symposium on the TRAFO Blog for Transregional Studies. The series brings scholars from several countries together to compare approaches to democracy and constitutional adjudication.