Taichi Imanishi Taichi is researching compositional approaches that integrate Japanese musical aesthetics into western music.
PhD researcher Georgette Nummelin Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Minority Languages, Rock and Metal, Widening Participation, Ableism in Music.
Research Student Charlotte Schuitenmaker Charlotte’s research interests are decolonisation, ethnomusicology, Indigenous studies, environmentalism and non-human agency.
PhD researcher Panggah Ardiyansyah Southeast Asian art, history of archaeology, knowledge production, colonial collecting, restitution, historiography of Indonesia.
Yingbai Fu Yingbai is a doctoral researcher at SOAS in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology.
Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr Shiori Hiraki History of art, history, visual and material culture in early modern Japan.
PhD researcher Vera Mey Art history, Southeast Asian studies, Curatorial studies, Postcolonial studies
PhD researcher Alexandre Claude Ouairy Alexandre Ouairy is a doctoral researcher at SOAS investigating Chinese contemporary art history.
PhD researcher Kasia Ploskonka Dr Ploskonka’s research interests over the last 15 years have developed between the intersection of power relations of contemporary art practitioners and the state specifically within the Central Asian region.
Elizabeth Reid The investigation focuses on change in the knowledge, representation and reception of Chinese art and the motivations of the British and Chinese people involved, including as lenders, dealers and collectors
Mr Kulamitra David Zukas I’m interested in what material remains reveal of the life of early Buddhists. I'm revealing networks of smaller hermitages and monastic rock-shelters in-between three major early rock-cut Buddhist monasteries.
Elaine Chung Prior to coming to SOAS, I have completed my undergraduate studies in Hong Kong and obtained a Master of Communications in South Korea.
Akiko Nagata I completed both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan). I have a degree in BA for Policy Studies, and MA for Sociology.
Mr Craig Ryder Craig Ryder is a digital ethnographer with research interests that sprawl the digital mix: automation, influencers, precarity and nascent technologies such as blockchain and synthetic media.
