Luba Ampleva

The Beautiful Other: What Lies Behind the Image of Russian Fashion Models in Contemporary Japan. (working title)

• Email: 542735@soas.ac.uk

Khadija Alia Bah

Impact of Crisis as a Condition on Individual and Intergenerational Aspirations (working title)

• Email: 687568@soas.ac.uk

Hannah Bennett

Golf Course Culture in China: An Exploration of Gender, Class, and Social Stratification (working title)

• Email: 602343@soas.ac.uk

Cherry Briggs

The politics and ethics of climate change adaptation in Sri Lanka's Dry Zone (working title)

• Email: 666392@soas.ac.uk

Hanming Cai

Identification in Contemporary Hong Kong: Ethnographic Exploration on the Politics of Cantopop and Its Lyrics

• Email: hanming_cai@soas.ac.uk

Theodore Parker Charles

Crossing Borders; The Evolution of Food Traditions in Post-Ottoman Thrace

• Email: 655805@soas.ac.uk

Anna Colquhoun

Food and tourism in Istria: Local specialities and the construction of a region (working title)

• Email: 585155@soas.ac.uk; anna_colquhoun@soas.ac.uk

Felicity Davies

Riding The Seoul Train: An Ethnographic Exploration Of The British K-Pop Fandom (working title)

• Email: 674818@soas.ac.uk

Lyman Gamberton

'Each Life Has Its Place': Transgender Experiences in Contemporary Japan

• Email: 606246@soas.ac.uk

Himalay Gohel

Caste Genealogies: Myths and Histories of Dalit Communities from Saurashtra, India

• Email: 312785@soas.ac.uk

Pauline Harlay

Tea, Taste and Traders: Cultural Mediators and the Reinvention of the Chinese ‘Traditional’ Beverage (working title)

• Email: 677271@soas.ac.uk

Flora Hastings

Jews Becoming Public: Emergent Practices Within Casa Adret, a Jewish Cultural Centre in Barcelona

• Email: 675265@soas.ac.uk

Priyanka Hutschenreiter

Being Muslim in Dhaka: Dhormo, Ethics and Ambiguity in the Everyday

• Email: priyanka_hutschenreiter@soas.ac.uk

Emily Imamura

Power, Identity, and Audiences in Indigenous Tourism: Ainu Entanglements in Hokkaido and Beyond (working title)

• Email: 264374@soas.ac.uk

Victoria Klinkert

• Email: 292629@soas.ac.uk

Maiko Kodaka

'Embrace me as I am’: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan community Surrounding Male Pornstars

• Email: 601882@soas.ac.uk

Pooja (Jo) Krishnakumar

Social Space and the Sex Worker: Family, Networks and Collectivisation in the Indian Sex Workers' Movement (Working Title)

• Email: 674557@soas.ac.uk

Wanlin Lu

Food, care and the digital sphere: Community group buying (shequ tuangou) in urban China

• Email: 676232@soas.ac.uk

Xinru Li

Mango TV as Youths’ CCTV - An Ethnography of Youths, Media and Nation

• Email: 644582@soas.ac.uk

Amir Massoumian

Perceptions of cultural preservation, race, gender, hierarchy, nationhood, and immigration in London pub culture

• Email: 667688@soas.ac.uk

Lu Qiao

Chinese Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Seoul: Body Politics, Transnationalism and Decentralised Centralism

• Email: 687147@soas.ac.uk

Cornelis Rijneveld

High Fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among queer men in urban India (working title)

• Email: 656793@soas.ac.uk

Alexx Salazar

Tradition, to preserve or innovate?: The Many Adaptations and Interpretations of Cambodian Shadow Puppets

• Email: 655816@soas.ac.uk

Elizabeth Carla Smith

Cosmopolitan Creatives: Asian Self-Making and Consumption in London (working title)

• Email: 544341@soas.ac.uk

Eric Smith Vintner

A World of Our Own: The Negotiation of Cosmology in Contemporary Japanese Animation

• Email: 666766@soas.ac.uk

Cas Sutherland

Queer Feminist Kinship: An Intersectional Approach to Activism and Community in Chengdu, China (working title)

• Email: 529873@soas.ac.uk

Vidya Venkat

India’s Democratic Revolution: The Right to Information and the Anti-Corruption Discourse

• Email: vidya_venkat@soas.ac.uk

Yuqi Wang

Between secularity and religiosity: a Buddhism-oriented town in Mainland China (working title)

• Email: 676303@soas.ac.uk

Kiara Wickremasinghe

Innovation in Psychiatric Crisis Care: An Ethnographic Investigation into Peer-Supported Open Dialogue (POD) in Inner London (working title)

• Email: 644916@soas.ac.uk

Nora Wuttke

Architecture and Aspirations: An Ethnographic Exploration of Hospital Infrastructure in Myanmar

• Email: 141121@soas.ac.uk