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A new photostory<\/a> reflects on the opportunity by students from the University of Southampton<\/a> to work with colleagues from Jadavpur University<\/a> to undertake fieldwork for their dissertations in the Indian Bengal delta.<\/p>\n

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Fieldwork in Dulki village (Photo: Katharine Vincent)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new photostory reflects on the opportunity by students from the University of Southampton to work with colleagues from Jadavpur University to undertake fieldwork for their dissertations in the Indian Bengal delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,35,3],"tags":[70,145,77,59,66,144],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta","category-gbm-india","category-student-reporting","tag-adaptation","tag-capacity-building","tag-india","tag-indian-bengal-delta","tag-migration","tag-qualitative-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-Fz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2402,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/08\/06\/what-is-life-like-in-the-indian-bengal-delta-new-video-clip-of-recent-fieldwork\/","url_meta":{"origin":2577,"position":0},"title":"What is life like in the Indian Bengal delta? 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