found: University of Edinburgh website, viewed 3/21/2023(Professor Emeritus in the School of Social and Political Science, previously Professor of Social Anthropology in Practice; "I have a B.Sc and Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, and a Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of Durham. After an early career in chemical physics at the universities of Alberta, Cambridge, Peradeniya and City, I retrained as an anthropologist in the mid-1970s at Durham."; "From 1994 onwards I frequently acted as an expert witness in asylum appeal cases involving Sri Lankans"; Research interests Research interests: South Asia, kinship, Hinduism, anthropology of law, asylum seekers and refugees).