Dr Pippa Virdee

Department of Historical and Social Studies

Senior Lecturer in Modern South Asian History

Contact details:

Telephone: 0116 257 7257
Fax: 0116 250 6130
Email: pvirdee@dmu.ac.uk

Dr Pippa Virdee is a Senior Lecturer in Modern South Asian History and joined the Faculty of Humanities in 2006.

Research

Pippa’s area of academic interest is in British colonial history, the history of the Punjab, and the South Asian Disapora in Britain. Her doctoral research was a comparative study examining refugee experiences of partition, migration and resettlement in Indian and Pakistan Punjab. She is currently continuing her research interest in partition and is working on Muslim women’s experiences of partition in West Punjab. She would welcome postgraduate students in the area of British rule in India, colonial history of the Punjab, especially on partition and South Asian migration to the UK.

Postgraduate Supervision
Pippa is happy to receive MA or PhD proposals from students interested in any of the research interests listed above.

Recent Scholarly Activities
Pippa is the convener for the Punjab Research Group which is an international research group that meets bi-annually. She has also set-up and manages a blog for the group’s activities, further details are available on: www.theprg.co.uk.

PhD examiner for Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

Consultancy work includes, European University Institute, Open University, and the BBC World Service..

Consultant for the Royal Geographical Society on the The Punjab: Moving Journey, exhibition. The exhibition was on display in 2008 and was on tour extensively in the UK and also in Lahore, Pakistan in 2009.

Teaching
Pippa teaches on a variety of modules at De Montfort, which include, The Making of the Modern World, British India 1857-1947 and Borders and Boundaries: the transformation of India and Pakistan.

Administration
Pippa is currently the Admissions tutor for History. If you would like to attend one of the open days please follow the link for further details: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/study/undergraduate-study/visit-us/open-days.aspx

Pippa is responsible for a joint postgraduate initiative between St Philips Centre and DMU. The MA programme in Interreligious Relations can be studied at three levels, Certificate, Diploma or Masters Level. If you are interested in this please contact Pippa directly or get further information from the St Philips Centre: http://stphilipscentre.dioceseofleicester.com/Research and Publications

Research and Publications