What is SIAS?

Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS) was established in 2011 as an indigenous platform for advanced research and scholarly exchange in the South Asia region. It emerges from the pressing need to nurture and promote critical research, scholarship and teaching in Southasia. 

It takes interdisciplinary approach and specializes in advanced studies – research, scholarly publications and seminar series. As an endogenous initiative of region, it will fill the critical gap in knowledge generation and capacity strengthening by cultivating and promoting more engaged practice of social science in addressing social and environmental challenges.

Its research will utilize state-of-the-art knowledge in the Southasian region and globally to understand, unravel, interpret unfolding social, political, economic and environmental dynamics.

SIAS will have significant contributions to policy and political discourse in Southasia which is facing multiple environmental, developmental and governance challenges.