Yong Woo Cho

Apartment of Korea and Japan : urban history and political aspects

• Email: 644001@soas.ac.uk

Wonwoong Jeong

The dissolution of a Cold-War alignment: Korea-Japan relations, 1969-1979

• Email: w_jeong@soas.ac.uk

Hakkyoung Lee

The effect of the genre-based approach on KFL advanced learner's writing and reading

• Email: 633032@soas.ac.uk

Natalia Matveeva

Building a new world: North and South Korean economic and political development strategies in the late 1950s - mid-1960s in the context of Cold War in East Asia (working title) 

• Email: 614942@soas.ac.uk

Luca Proietti

A noisy engagement: an analysis on the conscious awareness in Japanese noise music

• Email: 677105@soas.ac.uk

Dylan K. Wang

Unto Myself Reborn: Self-Translation in Modern Chinese Literature

• Email: 675155@soas.ac.uk

Magdalena Wojcik

The Community, Voice and Contributions of the Other Tang (618–907) Women Poets in the Early Modern (16th–18th c.) Anthologies of Poetry.

• Email: 232827@soas.ac.uk

Sandra Sattler

Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory:Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Puranic Literature and (Temple) Art

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Shubha Shanthamurthy

Evolution of Śaivism in the Deccan in the 12th to 14th centuries CE

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Annie Webster

Stories of Creative Destruction in post-2003 Iraqi Fiction

• Email: a_webster@soas.ac.uk

Jens Augspurger

The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)

• Email: jens_augspurger@soas.ac.uk

Stefano Damanins

The Conclusion of the Ritual: a Critical Edition of Y. 62-72, with Translation, Commentary and Ritual Notices

• Email: 665172@soas.ac.uk

Kerman Daruwalla

Study of the training of priests in the Zoroastrian tradition; and a text-critical edition of Yasna chapters 12-13

• Email: 633562@soas.ac.uk

Monika Hirmer

Becoming the Goddess: Study of a Contemporary South Indian Tantric Tradition and its Implications for Concepts of Personhood, Gender Relations and Everyday Life

• Email: 183438@soas.ac.uk

Tariq Mir

"Conceptualising Reality" in the Theology of Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī (d. 792AH / 1390CE)

• Email: 670037@soas.ac.uk

Martina Palladino

The Sanskrit-Gujarati Versions of the Yasna

• Email: 667863@soas.ac.uk

Alireza Ahmadian

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Rashid Ansari

The UK’s PREVENT Strategy and state relations with Muslim communities.

• Email: 221981@soas.ac.uk

Vincent Hakyemez

Research on visa policies

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Stephanie Hale

Global Elite Networks in World Politics

• Email: 614924@soas.ac.uk

Jonas Mikkelsen

The Role of the Executive Head in Intergovernmental Organizations

• Email: jonas_mikkelsen@soas.ac.uk

Xu Peng

Rebel governance in Myanmar: the comparison study between Wa and Kokang (working title)

• Email: 687318@soas.ac.uk

Teia Rogers

Diagnosing Ideological Influence: Unpuzzling Social Strain in the Modern Diaspora

• Email: 625087@soas.ac.uk

Neale Vickery

Britain and the United Nations, 1945-1951

• Email: 634787@soas.ac.uk

Lars Olav Aaberg

Queer Diversity and Inclusion Policy and Practice: an Ethnographic Study of Queer Politics in India’s Information City

• Email: lo_aaberg@soas.ac.uk; 658324@soas.ac.uk

Haya Al -Noaimi

‘The Protectors of Our Nation’: Discourses of Protection and the Construction of Masculinities in the Qatari and Emirati Militaries

• Email: 633553@soas.ac.uk

Hanna Al Taher

Gendered Citizenship in Jordan: Imagining, Claiming, Resisting Belonging

• Email: 657897@soas.ac.uk

Mary Elizabeth Wentworth Austin

Discourses of the Domestic: journalists, activists and academics creating the climate for an Indonesian Domestic Workers' Bill.

• Email: 526396@soas.ac.uk

Sara Bertotti

Between Law and Peace: a Critical Study of the Relationship between Peace Agreements, Law and Socio-political Change

• Email: s_bertotti@soas.ac.uk

Caroline Nadine D'Oyen-Fitchett

Black Women’s Experiences of Prison in the UK: Towards a Post Slavery Analysis

• Email: 686754@soas.ac.uk

Erum Nazeer Dahar

To what extent are Muslim women's organisations in the UK influenced by Islamic feminism and impacted by organisational stigma? (working title)

• Email: 665777@soas.ac.uk

Alice Finden

Everyday state violence: a queer historical analysis of Anglo/Egyptian counter-terrorism and emergency law

• Email: 616573@soas.ac.uk

Alaya Forte

New forms of political inclusion or mere tokenism? Reading political representation from a gender and minority perspective in British and French government (working title)

• Email: af23@soas.ac.uk

Biye Gao

Gender, Class and Reproduction in Post-Socialist Rural China (working title)

• Email: 602520@soas.ac.uk

Renata Guimarães Naso

Engaging with (dis)embodiment: Brazilian women and sexual harassment in public spaces.

• Email: 665156@soas.ac.uk

Xia'nan Jin

Women's political life in post-genocide Rwanda (working title)

• Email: 657284@soas.ac.uk

Emily Jones

Feminist Cyborgs and Gods: International Law, Humanism and the limits of the Global Order

• Email: ej9@soas.ac.uk

Haje Keli

An analysis of the gender-based violence in Iraqi Kurdistan – state, society and family violence [working title]

• Email: 585347@soas.ac.uk

Abeera Khan

Queer Muslim Subjecthoods: Mapping London's Contested Landscape

• Email: 633311@soas.ac.uk

Shreeta Lakhani

Gendering Notions of Belonging: Complicating the conceptualisation of the belonging of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) bodies in London (working title)

• Email: sl94@soas.ac.uk

Laurie Lijnders

Motherhood Across Borders (working title)

• Email: 618850@soas.ac.uk

Akanksha Mehta

Negotiating Space on the 'Right': The everyday politics of Hindu Nationalist and Zionist settler women in India and Israel-Palestine

• Email: akanksha_mehta@soas.ac.uk

Faiza Rehman

The Intersection of Corporate Accountability and Environmental Liability: Towards Promoting Sustainable Transnational Environmental Protection in the Extractive Industry

• Email: 676941@soas.ac.uk

Eric Rindal

Masculinity in Refugee Diaspora: (Re)presentations of Syrian refugee men who have experienced conflict-related sexual violence

• Email: 657733@soas.ac.uk

Barbara Schenkel

Women's Citizenship in Jordan

• Email: bs51@soas.ac.uk

Thomas Sparrow

Masculinity and Secularism in Historical and Contemporary Frame

• Email: 177056@soas.ac.uk

Jacquelyn P. Strey

Queer Moments, Queer Imaginings: The everyday activism of queer women in India

• Email: 539840@soas.ac.uk

Nina Sun

Intra-household Gender Relations and Modern Marriage Ideal in urban China

• Email: 655792@soas.ac.uk

Naseeba Umar

Queer Subjectivity and Sexual Governance

• Email: 644701@soas.ac.uk

Paola Zichi

Thesis (Working) Title: On Feminist Approaches to Self-Determination in Mandatory Palestine

• Email: pz4@soas.ac.uk

Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe

Defying 'the plan': intimate politics among Palestinian women in Israel

• Email: KJ_Zinngrebe@soas.ac.uk

Catherine Craven

Locating Politics in the Global: A Practice-Based Analysis of Tamil Diaspora Engagement

• Email: cc94@soas.ac.uk

Lamya (Sharmeen) Hussain

Dunam after Dunam: Transitions in Farming across the Jordan Valley

• Email: 565410@soas.ac.uk

Kirstie Kwarteng

The Transnational Practices of Second Generation Ghanaians: A Comparative Study (Working Title)

• Email: 655802@soas.ac.uk

Laurie Lijnders

Motherhood Across Borders (working title)

• Email: 618850@soas.ac.uk

Manish Maskara

Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities

• Email: 665850@soas.ac.uk

Gromyko Dumuje

Fragmented Memory In an Invented Land: The Absence of History in the Abacha Dictatorship of Nigeria

• Email: 645704@soas.ac.uk

Sana Goyal

“Awarding Africa” from the Caine to the Commonwealth: First Books, First Prizes, & Women Writers

• Email: 633321@soas.ac.uk

Jinjian Li

Nyerere and Post-Colonial Swahili Literature (working title)

• Email: 666764@soas.ac.uk

Ret’sepile Makamane

Aesthetics of African Literature: The fiction of Thomas Mofolo, and Sesotho novelists who came after him.

• Email: 645706@soas.ac.uk

Cristina Nicolini

The evolution of communications in HIV / AIDS prevention – Research in South-East Tanzania

• Email:

Miriam Pahl

Precarious Lives in the Postcolony – The Concept of the Human in Contemporary African Genre Fiction in English

• Email: 606538@soas.ac.uk

Pascale Pean

The Taste of Home: Identity and Resistance in Haitian-American Food

• Email: 674581@soas.ac.uk

Tsering Samdrup Cairangsanzhou

Expressing Politeness in Old Tibetan: Investigation based on three Dunhuang Tibetan texts

• Email: 666518@soas.ac.uk

Federica Gamberini

[working title] The Idea of Beauty. Subjectivity, writing and aesthetic experience in Contemporary Chinese literature

• Email: 616281@soas.ac.uk

Zhu Liang

Occult Verse: Poetry and Divination in Early China

• Email: 657476@soas.ac.uk

Chen Ma

Negotiating with Ambiguity: The Reconstruction of Ecological Consciousness in post-2000 Chinese Science Fictions

• Email: 665174@soas.ac.uk

Fang Wan

The Construction of Feminist Utopia in Chinese Internet Literature

• Email: 656175@soas.ac.uk

Magdalena Wojcik

The Community, Voice and Contributions of the Other Tang (618–907) Women Poets in the Early Modern (16th–18th c.) Anthologies of Poetry.

• Email: 232827@soas.ac.uk

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

Marie Launay-Smirnov

Around the Monastic Table: The Experience of Monastic Food for Retreat Participants in France (working title)

• Email:

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

Abhishek Mohanty

Blurred Imaginaries: Future-making and digital health in Delhi

• Email: 676326@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

Teesta Sengupta

• Email:

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

Lord Aikins Adusei

An Island of Peace in an ocean of turbulence: Understanding the sources of Ghana’s stability and limited economic progress

• Email:

Heba Ali

• Email: 525591@soas.ac.uk

Prince Asafu-Adjaye

Trade Union Responses to Neoliberalism in Ghana

• Email: 645246@soas.ac.uk

Ponsiano Bimeny

Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan

• Email: 615790@soas.ac.uk

Jacob Berah

The Role of UN Special Political Missions in Conflict

• Email: 665507@soas.ac.uk

Femi Bolaji

How Does Diaspora Finance Shape Infrastructure Development in Nigeria?

• Email: 644477@soas.ac.uk

Kira Brenner

• Email: kb34@soas.ac.uk

Chris Büscher

Water and development in a variegated capitalism. Dutch water aid & trade development reproducing and transforming water access in Mozambique

• Email: 623572@soas.ac.uk

Weiwei Chen

The Dynamics of Chinese Private OFDI in Ethiopia: A Comparison of Light Manufacturing Industry and Construction Materials Industry

• Email: 583646@soas.ac.uk

Jean-Baptiste Damestoy

Governance capabilities, industrialisation and the state: the case of the cotton and textile sectors in Ethiopia

• Email: 572154@soas.ac.uk

Sila Demirors

Financialisation of the housing sector and urban transformation in Istanbul and Sao Paulo

• Email: sd39@soas.ac.uk

Francesco Formichella

The Value of the Global Value Chains: Fragmentation of Production, Vertically-Specialized Industrialization, and Uneven Capitalist Development (working title)

• Email: ff7@soas.ac.uk

Daniel Fuchs

Hegemony and Labour Politics in the People's Republic of China. Labour conflicts and hegemonic state strategies in the context of industrial relocation to Western China

• Email: df20@soas.ac.uk

Muhtar Habibi

Agrarian Capitalism in Neoliberal Indonesia: Class, Production and Reproduction

• Email: 643576@soas.ac.uk

Philip Hadley

• Email: p_hadley@soas.ac.uk

Yasmine Hafez

Lakeview: An Alternative History of Nile Basin Water Politics

• Email: 674584@soas.ac.uk

Lamya (Sharmeen) Hussain

Dunam after Dunam: Transitions in Farming across the Jordan Valley

• Email: 565410@soas.ac.uk

Charlotte Hübner

“The Role of the Oil & Gas Sector in Late Industrialisation: Lessons from Malaysia” (Working Title)

• Email: 569089@soas.ac.uk

Cate Inverso

From War to Peace as Conflict goes on: Reinventing the state or ignoring it? Assessing the activities of armed groups and informal cross border trade networks in the borderlands between DRC, Uganda and South Sudan (working title)

• Email: ci6@soas.ac.uk

Sarajuddin Isar

Taxation and state-building in Afghanistan, a political economy framework

• Email: 270469@soas.ac.uk

Karen Schouw Iversen

Humanitarian Activist Citizens: Desplazado Protests and State Humanitarianism in Bogotá, Colombia

• Email: 543226@soas.ac.uk

Safa Joudeh

Economic zones as spatial strategy in Egypt and Tunisia (working title)

• Email: 644981@soas.ac.uk

Matt Juden

• Email: mj28@soas.ac.uk

Hisae Kato

Sociology of work in conflict-affected communities: Labour, gender and violence in El-Rahad, Sudan

• Email: h_kato@soas.ac.uk

Kaweh Kerami

Democratisation in the midst of war: Elections and Electoral politics in Afghanistan

• Email: 656606@soas.ac.uk

Kirstie Kwarteng

The Transnational Practices of Second Generation Ghanaians: A Comparative Study (Working Title)

• Email: 655802@soas.ac.uk

Iris Lim

Experiencing the Digital Governance Immigration: a Qualitative Comparison of London and Seoul

• Email: 540108@soas.ac.uk

Claire Marcel

What is the relationship between immigration controls, labour market structures and experiences of precarity in different spheres of the lives of migrant workers in the cleaning and agricultural sectors in the UK? (working title)

• Email: 593851@soas.ac.uk

Shona Macleod

Talibés who beg in urban Senegal: how does global child rights discourse influence policy and practice?

• Email: shona_macleod@soas.ac.uk

Manish Maskara

Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities

• Email: 665850@soas.ac.uk

Tomaz M. Fares

The Chinese Agribusiness in the Global Soybean Commodity Chain

• Email: 656580@soas.ac.uk

Roshni Menon

Land-pooling for the ‘smart city’ of Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh: Inclusive development or land dispossession in a different guise?

• Email: rm57@soas.ac.uk

Cristina Mosneaga

Transition from informality to more formality of small and medium enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria

• Email: 657695@soas.ac.uk

Aruna Pandey

Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy

• Email: ap72@soas.ac.uk

Hashim Rashid

The Agrarian Question in West Punjab since 1885: The Politics of the Formation of a New Peasantry

• Email: 655813@soas.ac.uk

Alexander Ray

Rethinking the Local–international Dichotomy in Relation to Refugee Protection and Assistance: The Politics of Practice in Managing South Sudanese Displacement (working title)

• Email: 642361@soas.ac.uk; alexander_ray@soas.ac.uk

Taylor Daniel Rockhill

• Email: 677192@soas.ac.uk; taylor_rockhill@soas.ac.uk

Fatemeh Sajjadi

• Email: 210069@soas.ac.uk

Nina Salsotto Cassina

Documenting resistance movements in the DRC: sites, forms and explanations (working title)

• Email: 667323@soas.ac.uk

Christian Sowa

The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title)

• Email: christian_sowa@soas.ac.uk

Caitlin Sturridge

How can changing rural-urban livelihoods build households’ capacity to adapt to growing resource scarcity? A political ecology of mobility and translocality in Laikipia, Kenya (working title).

• Email: 257812@soas.ac.uk

Misha Velthuis

Selling modernity - An ethnography of the everyday practice of supermarket chains in Mumbai

• Email: m_velthuis@soas.ac.uk

Fernandes Wanda

Capitalist Transformation in Transition: Exploring business political elite linkage in post-war Angola (working title)

• Email: 583303@soas.ac.uk

Chris Weeks

Human trafficking in the wake of natural disaster: the case of Typhoon Haiyan

• Email: 615683@soas.ac.uk

Jessica Whelligan

Questioning BRTs: A win-win solution to public transport problems in developing countries? (ESRC-ITF collaborative studentship)

• Email: 281755@soas.ac.uk

Benjamin Whiston

• Email: 135678@soas.ac.uk

Aled Williams

Shaping Room for Manoeuvre: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation as a Forest Policy Choice in Indonesia (working title)

• Email: 602820@soas.ac.uk

Dilys K. Winterkorn

The Rise and Phenomena of African Philanthropy (working title)

• Email: 119673@soas.ac.uk

Khadija Yakubu

GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY IN AFRICAN CITIES: Structures and Practices in Northern Nigeria for Sustainable Development; A Case Study of Kaduna Metropolis.

• Email: 674576@soas.ac.uk

Celal Özkızan

Neoliberalism in a Small Country: Social Structures, Property Ownership and Class Structure in Northern Cyprus

• Email: 657283@soas.ac.uk

Louis Allday

Cultural Propaganda in Britain’s Informal Empire: The British Council in the Persian Gulf c. 1939 - 1971.

• Email: 141913@soas.ac.uk

Jens Augspurger

The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)

• Email: jens_augspurger@soas.ac.uk

Jacien G. Carr (Jay)

The Poro: Society, Community and Perception in Liberian and Sierra Leone during the 19th Century

• Email: 634262@soas.ac.uk

Ling-Chieh Chen

War and Postal Communication in Republican China, 1916-1949

• Email: Jay_Chen@soas.ac.uk

Stefano Damanins

The Conclusion of the Ritual: a Critical Edition of Y. 62-72, with Translation, Commentary and Ritual Notices

• Email: 665172@soas.ac.uk

Kerman Daruwalla

Study of the training of priests in the Zoroastrian tradition; and a text-critical edition of Yasna chapters 12-13

• Email: 633562@soas.ac.uk

Emily Dawes

19th Century Protestant Missionary Perceptions of Chinese Islam

• Email: 655790@soas.ac.uk

Fadi Dawood

Makings of a Warrior Race in Iraq: The Case of the Assyrians

• Email: fadi_dawood@soas.ac.uk

Aleksander Engeskaug

Religion and Economy: Zoroastrian Priests and Fire Temples in the Economy of Sasanian Iran

• Email: 634051@soas.ac.uk

Mariano Errichiello

Ilm-e-Khshnoom, an occult Zoroastrian movement: History and Beliefs.

• Email: 634383@soas.ac.uk

Erin A. Freas-Smith

Domestic Work in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, A Focus on Durban and Ixopo From 1920-1960

• Email: erinfreas@hotmail.com

Senem Gökel

Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: the case of Cyprus under Ottoman and British rules, late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries

• Email: 592858@soas.ac.uk; sg87@soas.ac.uk

Eyad Hamid

The Idea of the Refugee in the Discourse and Practices of NGOs in the Ottoman Empire (1915-1926): The Near East Relief

• Email: 581813@soas.ac.uk

Louise Jeffers

The Treatment of Deportees and Prisoners-of-War in Hittite Texts

• Email: 123125@soas.ac.uk

Wonmook Kang

The Qing Perspective of ‘Europeans’, 1644-1858

• Email: 615197@soas.ac.uk

Tariq Mir

"Conceptualising Reality" in the Theology of Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī (d. 792AH / 1390CE)

• Email: 670037@soas.ac.uk

Sarbajit Mitra

Cultures of Consumption: Popular Responses to Intoxicants in Colonial Bengal

• Email: sarbajit_mitra@soas.ac.uk

Julio Moreno Cirujano

Looking like a state: Materiality and Aesthetics in British Mandate Palestine

• Email: 645390@soas.ac.uk

Brandi Simpson Miller

A Social History of Food and Cooking in Ghana in the 19th Century

• Email: 634862@soas.ac.uk

Shan Siping

Environment, Commerce and Imperial Politics in South-Eastern Mongolia (1644–1912)

• Email: 538394@soas.ac.uk

Michiko Suzuki

History of Disaster, Recovery, and Humanitarianism: The Japanese Red Cross Society in the Modern World, 1877-1945

• Email: m_suzuki@soas.ac.uk

Nobuaki Takase

Mutsu Munemitsu and British Influence on Japanese Modern Nation Building in the Nineteenth Century

• Email:

Tassapa Umavijani

The Military Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Siam: Changes and Continuities

• Email: 657693@soas.ac.uk

Meilin Zhou

Japan in the Establishment of Public Health in China, 1901-1937

• Email: 655818@soas.ac.uk

Hyejin Jang

Developing intercultural competence through Korean language education: Conceptualisation, transformation and adaptation

• Email: hyejin_jang@soas.ac.uk

Chanhee Lee

Chosŏn Korean’s perspectives and emotions toward the West, 1876-1902

• Email: 674907@soas.ac.uk

Seoung Yun Lee

A Comparative Study on Representations of "Comfort Women" in Korean and Korean American Literature

• Email: 602052@soas.ac.uk

Hakkyoung Lee

The effect of the genre-based approach on KFL advanced learner's writing and reading

• Email: 633032@soas.ac.uk

Barbara Micyk

The supernatural in pre-modern Japanese illustrated fiction

• Email: 222069@soas.ac.uk

Owen Stampton

A Study on Sino-Korean Poetry of the Enlightenment Era

• Email: 257503@soas.ac.uk

Fadekunayo Adeniyi

Overcoming the Constraints to On-Grid Renewable Energy Investments in Nigeria

• Email: fadekunayo_adeniyi@soas.ac.uk

Catherine Doe Adodoadji

Climate Change and Vulnerable Coastal Communities in Ghana (working title)

• Email: 570419@soas.ac.uk

Noor Ghanim Ali Al-Thani

Sovereign Wealth Funds in Oil-Rich States: A Blessing in Disguise in Overcoming the Resource Curse

• Email: noor_al-thani@soas.ac.uk

Ghadah Alharthi

Social Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia

• Email: G_alharthi@soas.ac.uk

Yousef Alsuwaidan

Consumer disposition towards foreign and domestically produced products and the impact of Country of Origin

• Email: 606012@soas.ac.uk

Camilla Audia

Mechanisms of land tenure and gendered access to land within complex households in rural Burkina Faso.

• Email: c_audia@soas.ac.uk

Ahmed Baya

Studies on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and merger waves : Evidence from USA, Europe and Asia. (Working title).

• Email: a_baya@soas.ac.uk

Luca Blasi

Emerging Market Debt and Liquidity Risk

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Edward Buckingham

Determinants of Chinese Indonesian Entrepreneurship in the Oil Palm Industry

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Kim Bui

The Role of State-Owned Enterprises in Chinese Cross -Border Mergers and Acquisitions: An Institutional Perspective

• Email: 271818@soas.ac.uk

Chih-Wei Chang

The Impact of Audit Quality on the CSR Disclosure and Performance

• Email: 665681@soas.ac.uk

Julius Ejechi

Impact of financial technology on financial inclusion and economic growth in Africa

• Email: 178302@soas.ac.uk

Hannes Goegele

Governance and Leadership of International Organisations: The United Nations in the context of the 2030 Agenda

• Email: 667448@soas.ac.uk

Linlan Huang

The Sino-Japanese Cooperation on Clean Coal Technologies in the Post-ODA Period: A Local Policy-Making Interplay

• Email: linlan_huang@soas.ac.uk

Yang Huiying

Employment Relations in Japan

• Email: 618301@soas.ac.uk

Mona Hussein

Firm Level Catch-up from a Dynamic Capabilities Perspective: High- and Medium-tech Firms in Egypt

• Email: 665181@soas.ac.uk

Anosi Ikimalo

Fellowship amongst peers: A network analysis of interbank lending markets

• Email: 665972@soas.ac.uk

Frederick Josephidou

FX Option Pricing Model: A New Approach

• Email: 622384@soas.ac.uk

Keni Kariuki

Agriculture and Public Policy: Dissecting the Role of Public Policy in Kenyan Agricultural Development

• Email: 644627@soas.ac.uk

Kanji Kitamura

Toward a Theory of Cultural Untranslatability with Application to Japan, UK and USA Cross-cultural Business Management and Beyond

• Email: 150047@soas.ac.uk

Rodiat Lawal Yetunde

China-Africa Interactions: Infrastructure investment

• Email: 676091@soas.ac.uk

Wenwei Li

Promoting Sustainability in China and Consumer Psychology

• Email: 656609@soas.ac.uk; wl4@soas.ac.uk

Mi Li

Exploring power dynamics represented through trust between patients, medical staff and the Chinese healthcare system

• Email: 645845@soas.ac.uk

Luca Mannocchi

Growth strategies and Rural Transformations in Bhutan (provisional)

• Email: 630187@soas.ac.uk

Katherine Moe

Entry mode of emerging market firms

• Email: 641510@soas.ac.uk

Najia Momen

Business Resilience in Libya. Resilience, Network and institutional Theory

• Email: 298796@soas.ac.uk

Golsa Monazahian

Financial inclusion and Economic growth

• Email: 642080@soas.ac.uk

Eleanor Morrison

Energy Market Implications for Emerging Market Debt Markets

• Email: 604565@soas.ac.uk

Mekki Muhammed

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in The Middle East

• Email: 674009@soas.ac.uk

Fiorella N. Picchioni

"Monitoring the effects of changing food prices on food security and nutrition – the Minimum Calorie Expenditure Share (MCES)"

• Email: f_picchioni@soas.ac.uk

Dominic Rowland

Palm oil and the demise of swidden agriculture: The effects of agrarian change on food security and nutrition in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

• Email: Dominic_Rowland@soas.ac.uk

Francesco Salustri

The Vote with the Wallet

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Amrita Sen

Limits to Arbitrage in Oil Markets

• Email: 577822@soas.ac.uk

Shuai Shao

Peer-to-peer lending platforms and SME financing in China

• Email: 655991@soas.ac.uk

Alina Shoaib

The impact of Chinese infrastructure OFDI on host country economy and domestic firm performance

• Email: 232149@soas.ac.uk

Maryam Sholevar

Mind the gap, the impact of financial literacy on saving and payment methods: is there any gender gap?

• Email: 664362@soas.ac.uk

Sharifa Soudan Alenezi

The impact of social media marketing on consumer buying behaviour – A case of Kuwaiti’s fashion retail market

• Email: 674091@soas.ac.uk

Surina

International Activities of Chinese Banks

• Email: 677371@soas.ac.uk

Catherine Tuhirirwe

The impact of Chinese investment loans on the development of Africa: Case Studies of Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, and Senegal.

• Email: 675587@soas.ac.uk

Jingyuan Tuo

Influence of FDI on regional inequality in post-reform China

• Email: 654814@soas.ac.uk

Stella Wambugu

Agriculture and Health in Low Income Countries - Investigating Farm Household and Wider Interactions in sub Saharan Africa (working title)

• Email: stella_wambugu@soas.ac.uk

Lucy Williams

The role of timing in sensemaking in the psychological contract and trust reciprocity process of foreign and British babysitters in the UK

• Email: 632293@soas.ac.uk

Fatima Yilmaz

Consumer Need for Uniqueness as Antecedents to Self-Identification in the Experiential Market

• Email: 657605@soas.ac.uk

Minhye Zoh

The (in)effectiveness of corporate disclosure in reducing corporate scandals

• Email: 633447@soas.ac.uk

Manhal AL DAKHLALLAH

The Question of Aesthetics in Literary Translation in view of the Prismatic Translation Theory: An Integrative/Critical Review Analysis of the Arabic Translations of Charles Dickens's Aesthetics-Poetic Style.

• Email: 687530@soas.ac.uk

Nahida Ahmed

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Hebah Hasan O Albiti

Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences

• Email: 619099@soas.ac.uk

Jon Archer

Information Structure in Muwé-ke, Nepal

• Email: jon_archer@soas.ac.uk

Albert Badosa Roldós

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Ebany Dohle

Náhuat-Pipil: The Encoding of Ecological Knowledge in Semantic and Lexical Categorisation Systems

• Email: e_dohle@soas.ac.uk

Francisca Everduim

Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu

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Takako Kawabata

Choice of languages and scripts in the Japanese linguistic landscape (tentative title)

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Haewon Lee

Alternative Ways for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in a Globalised World : A multinational project on Vietnamese Lên Đồng ritual performance and the involvement of UNESCO

• Email: 643227@soas.ac.uk

Robert Laub

A Comparison of the Portuguese Creoles of Malacca and Macau

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Lin Li

Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese

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Philippe Antoine Martinez

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Aiko Otsuka

Pragmatic strategies in face-to-face interactions and emails by Japanese speakers and Japanese Sign Language users: Focus on Japanese Sign Language users' use of Japanese and their perceptions

• Email: 600014@soas.ac.uk

Rafaa Taher S Ragebi

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Meriem Sallemine

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Heather Ayn Todd

Ethnobiological inventories of a multilingual community in Cameroon

• Email: h_todd@soas.ac.uk

Martha Tsutsui

A Documentation and Description of Disappearing Predicates in Southern Amami-Ōshima

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Wen Wang

A Corpus-based Study of Subjunctivity in Shanghainese (as evidenced in the missionary linguistic and translation works on/in vernacular Shanghainese in the period 1843-1950)

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Becky Winstanley

Multilingualism in Tower Hamlets: Sylheti practices, places, connections and ideologies

• Email: 677372@soas.ac.uk

Lu Xue

Negation, Prediction and Thought-ascription — A Study of Quasi-logical Terms in Mandarin Chinese

• Email: 656235@soas.ac.uk

Miho Zlazli

A case study of Master-Apprentice initiative with new speakers of Ryukyuan languages (Working Title)

• Email: 601339@soas.ac.uk

Feifei Zhan

Physical Pain and Mother-daughter Relationships in Post-1990 Chinese Literature

• Email: 655806@soas.ac.uk

Lingxia Zhou

Hegemony and Counter-hegemony in Multilingual China: A case study of language policy and campaigns in Shanghai [WORKING TITLE]

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Syed Talha Ahsan

History of Hanbalite political thought

• Email: 110167@soas.ac.uk

Hasan Al-Khoee

The Evolution of Arabic Public Oratory in the Early Muslim Period [1st-3rd/7th-9th centuries]

• Email: h_al-khoee@soas.ac.uk

Hebah Hasan O Albiti

Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences

• Email: 619099@soas.ac.uk

Yaser Almatrfi

Transformations in the Attitude of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth School towards the Engagement in Theological Polemics (Al Kalam)

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Yue Han

Militarism in Israeli and Palestinian Cinemas

• Email: 634090@soas.ac.uk

Kamal Hussain

Epistemological Congruence of Modernist Thought: a Case Study of Minority Fiqh and Other Related Matters

• Email: 102285@soas.ac.uk

Ayse Kara

Istanbul through Moroccan Travellers’ Eyes from 16th to 18th Century: a Comparative Study of Moroccan-Ottoman Travel Writing

• Email: 570495@soas.ac.uk

Faizul Redhwan Karim

Gender Relations in the Qur'ān

• Email: fk16@soas.ac.uk

Amina Khatun

Muslim women mystics: The faith stories of contemporary British Muslim women in the transnational Bani Alawiyya Tarīqa of Hadhramawt

• Email: 263066@soas.ac.uk

Ummugulsum Kurukol

Riḥla: Interpreting the Islamic city through Muslim Travellers by revisiting the meaning of travel from the medieval period to early modern times.

• Email: 641306@soas.ac.uk

Seán Pieper

Assessing the Impact of Greco-Roman Texts on British and German Writers’ Perception of Iran in the Qajar Period

• Email: 657604@soas.ac.uk

Tariq Suleman

Zionism and its Discourse in Indian Muslim Politics from 1917 to 1947

• Email: tsuleman@hotmail.com

Mathilde Touillon-Ricci

Individuality and identity in cuneiform: personalising economic documentation from the 21st and 20th centuries BCE

• Email: 643950@soas.ac.uk

Hannah Bates

Tocando Tumbao: performance perspectives on Cuban pianism

• Email: 245982@soas.ac.uk

Robbie Campbell

Dyslexia, Sensory Ethnomusicology, and Chopi timbila Xylophone Music in Mozambique

• Email: r_campbell@soas.ac.uk

Arka Chakraborty

The Reception History of Bob Dylan in Indian Popular Music

• Email: arka_chakraborty@soas.ac.uk

Michael Davidson

Growing Through Music: Developing Teaching For Personal and Social Outcomes within Instrumental Music Teaching in UK

• Email: 608567@soas.ac.uk

Jun Feng

Paiziluo Shawm and Percussion Bands in Hubei Province (China) and Social Changes

• Email: 673657@soas.ac.uk

James Anthony Gardner

The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity and Processes of "Improvisation" in Mande Kora Music

• Email: 218004@soas.ac.uk

Sam Grant

Metal Music and its Relationship to Folk Music and National Identity in the Middle East

• Email: 616601@soas.ac.uk

Hugo Hadji

Listening to New Raï: Algerian identities in the 21st century.

• Email: 657252@soas.ac.uk

Ros Hawley

A Reflexive Study of Music Practice in a UK Paediatric Hospital Setting

• Email: 247626@soas.ac.uk

William Rees Hofmann

Singing Sufis in Text: Indo-Persian Music and Sufi Poetics ca. 1250-1600

• Email: wr_hofmann@soas.ac.uk

Taichi Imanishi

Evaluate Takemitsu Approaches for Integrating World Music's - Portable Music & Non-Portable Music

• Email: 543607@soas.ac.uk

Georgette Nummelin

Music as a Method for Sustaining and Revitalising the Ainu Language and Identity

• Email: 129513@soas.ac.uk

Tom Peterson

Archives of Sri Lanka's Vocal Arts: The Lyrical Genres of the Nevill Collection as Refractions of Sri Lanka, Past and Present

• Email: 656021@soas.ac.uk

Charlotte Schuitenmaker

Activism and Urbanism in Contemporary Indigenous Music-Making in Australia.

• Email: 687587@soas.ac.uk

Vicky Tadros

Listening, Khaleeji-Style

• Email: v_tadros@soas.ac.uk

Helen Anahita Wilson

Indian Rhythm and Life Writing in Cross-Sensory Composition (Practice Research)

• Email: h.a_wilson@soas.ac.uk

Dorothea Schaefter

The Return of Indonesian Exile Writing: A Literary Analysis of the Works of Exiled Indonesian Authors

• Email: dorothea@soas.ac.uk

Rabia Latif Khan

Narrative, memory and belonging: Constructing a ‘Hazara identity’ abroad

• Email: 543721@soas.ac.uk

Jayanta Rai

'Restructuring Nepal' (working title)

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Sandra Sattler

Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory:Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Puranic Literature and (Temple) Art

• Email:

Rakesh Sengupta

An Archaeology of Screenwriting in Early Indian Cinema (1930s-1950s)

• Email: rakesh_sengupta@soas.ac.uk

Florence Shahabi

Sayyid Bahodine Majrouh: an intellectual biography

• Email: Florence_Shahabi@soas.ac.uk

Shubha Shanthamurthy

Evolution of Śaivism in the Deccan in the 12th to 14th centuries CE

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Maryam Sikander

Upstart Punches: Humour and Satire in Urdu Literature

• Email: maryam_sikander@soas.ac.uk

Ruth Westoby

Gendered constructs in Haṭha Yoga

• Email: ruth_westoby@soas.ac.uk

Zezhou Yang

'Nepal-China relations' (working title)

• Email:

Arka Chakraborty

The Reception History of Bob Dylan in Indian Popular Music

• Email: arka_chakraborty@soas.ac.uk

Kexin Ma

Portraits of Objects: Emperor Yongzheng's 'Guwan tu' and the Agency of Artefacts across Media

• Email: 655906@soas.ac.uk

Helen Anahita Wilson

Indian Rhythm and Life Writing in Cross-Sensory Composition (Practice Research)

• Email: h.a_wilson@soas.ac.uk

Nikola Siemonov Georgiev

Transnational Law and Financial Governance: the impact and effectiveness of Public International Law on the enforcement of financial regulation.

• Email: 552456@soas.ac.uk

Syed Enam Ahammad

Undertaking Islamophobia will improve human rights for the Muslims in the UK

• Email: 686529@soas.ac.uk

Leonie Charelle Clarke

The Legal Standing, Autonomy and Equivocal Personhood of Enslaved Black People In 17th-19th Century Britain and Jamaica

• Email:

Kuuya Vuyelwa

The regional protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A comparative analysis of the position in Europe, the America's and Africa

• Email: 208529@soas.ac.uk

Amber Lakhani

Law, politics and legal theory - A historical and socio-political exploration of the right to liberty in Pakistan

• Email: 687176@soas.ac.uk

Mohammad Lari

The Effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on contractual obligations under the Kuwaiti Civil Code 1980

• Email: 686826@soas.ac.uk

Elshareef Ali Elshareef Mohammed

Right to Freedom of Religion and Belief in Sudan

• Email: 574443

Sarfraz Mohammed

Development of the Waqf in Hanafi legal discourse

• Email: 687354@soas.ac.uk

Inessa Hadjivayanis

Islamic Marriages solemnised in the UK among Swahili speakers: A case study of Zanzibari women

• Email: 276375@soas.ac.uk

Panagiotis Gkagkatsi

Critique of Economic Sanctions and connection with the general state of international law. The absence of examination of material circumstances, postcolonialism and socioeconomic rights.

• Email: 695784@soas.ac.uk

Bakhtiyor Abdulhamidov

• Email: ba8@soas.ac.uk

Noora Al-Saai

Working title: Nationality and International, Mixed, and Minority Marriages in Qatar and select GCC Jurisdictions: A Sociolegal and Comparative Analysis

• Email: 677130@soas.ac.uk

Tariq Al-Timimi

(Working title) The Development of the Maqasid Model in the Modern Era and its utility to the application of Islamic law today

• Email: ta15@soas.ac.uk

Naser Alsayed

The Human-Nature-Animal Nexus: Analysing the Impact of Ecocentric Theories in an Anthropocentric World

• Email: 676173@soas.ac.uk

Christopher Argyris

Nothing Secedes Like Succession: Why Self-Determination Movements Fail to Achieve State Sovereignty and International Recognition

• Email: Christopher_Argyris@soas.ac.uk

Sara Bertotti

Between Law and Peace: a Critical Study of the Relationship between Peace Agreements, Law and Socio-political Change

• Email: s_bertotti@soas.ac.uk

Bulama Bukarti

An Assessment of Boko Haram's War from Islamic Law of War Perspective

• Email: 667558@soas.ac.uk

Aruna Bundu-Conteh

The Costs, Myths and Realities of International Investment Treaty Arbitration in the Extractives Sectors and West African States.

• Email: 695738@soas.ac.uk

Nazifa Haqpal

The impact of Legal Pluralism on the Role and Status of Afghanistan’s Judiciary (2001-2020)

• Email: 673045@soas.ac.uk

Emad Eddien Hussein

A Critical Assessment of the Legal Framework of International Commercial Arbitration in the Onshore UAE (Towards Certainty and Modernity for an Arbitration- Friendly Jurisdiction)

• Email: 665163@soas.ac.uk

Manar Idriss

Working Title: The Responsibility to Protect: A critical look at the international community’s response to Sudan’s conflicts

• Email: 278508@soas.ac.uk

Melinda Janki

External self-determination under international law.

• Email: 634369@soas.ac.uk

Malik Kenewa

The Islamic Sacred Months as a contemporary peace agreement

• Email: 655822@soas.ac.uk

Moritz Koenig

Colonial Law in Minangkabau. Legal Discourses and the Enframing of West Sumatran Social Worlds

• Email: 603474@soas.ac.uk

Erhan Kucuk

Asylum Seeking and Responsibility of States in Refugee Law: The Case of Turkish Asylum System

• Email: 675164@soas.ac.uk

Yan-Ho (Eric) Lai

Working Title: Resilient Professionalism under Authoritarianism: Building Professional Legal Culture and the Rule of Law in Post-colonial Hong Kong

• Email: yanho_lai@soas.ac.uk

Zainab Lokhandwala

Indian Farmers and Rights over Biogenetic Resources towards Greater Food Sovereignty

• Email: 656869@soas.ac.uk

Roopa Madhav

Beyond Judicial Veto: Public Trust Doctrine, Administrative Decision Making and Implementation of Mining Related Laws

• Email: 657053@soas.ac.uk

Fara Mohammad

Islamic financial law: a review of sustainability considerations and its impact

• Email: 674611@soas.ac.uk

Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode

The Suicide Bombing Girls of Boko Haram; Between State and Structural Violence

• Email: 631516@soas.ac.uk

Antonia Mulvey

International Justice: Solution or Obstacles to Peace in Housing, Land and Property Conflicts

• Email: antoniacmulvey@yahoo.co.uk

Sanjit Nagi

The British Labour Party's post-war commitment to Human Rights

• Email: 694378@soas.ac.uk

Denise Naicker

The Co-production of Nuclear Technology and Global Political Order

• Email: 677170@soas.ac.uk

Gayathri Naik

Water-related Subsidies and Groundwater Regulation in India: Social and Environmental Dimensions

• Email: 655800@soas.ac.uk

Rana Osman

Fatāwā and the Development of a Political Justice in Islam: Between Contemporary Institutionalised Iftāʾ and Independent Scholars’ Organization

• Email: 667480@soas.ac.uk

Faiza Rehman

The Intersection of Corporate Accountability and Environmental Liability: Towards Promoting Sustainable Transnational Environmental Protection in the Extractive Industry

• Email: 676941@soas.ac.uk

Syed Masud Reza

• Email: 268710@soas.ac.uk

Mohammad Golam Sarwar

Integrating Environmental Rule of Law into the domestic environmental law framework: Challenges and Opportunities for Bangladesh

• Email: 694129@soas.ac.uk

Sharowat Shamin

• Email: 558431@soas.ac.uk

Ammar Shamsuddin

Gender parity in inheritance law in the United Arab Emirates

• Email: 169342@soas.ac.uk

Victoria Allen Stainsby

Hungry Ghosts of Empire: Reimagining Postcolonial Narrative and Law

• Email: 656111@soas.ac.uk

KMS Tareq

Efficacy of Legal Mechanisms to Recognise the Rights of Climate Change Displaced Persons (CCDPs): A Case Study in Bangladesh

• Email: 694125@soas.ac.uk

Mark Wasunna

Difficulties Caused by the Doctrine of Public Policy when Enforcing Foreign Arbitral Awards: A Case Study of Kenya and Comparing this to the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Supervisors

• Email: 694121@soas.ac.uk

Micha Wiebusch

The Emerging Normative Framework of the African Union on Constitutionalism – The Legal Process and the Contribution to Peace, Security and Democratic State Building

• Email: michawiebusch@gmail.com

Mario Arulthas

Transnationalism and the Tamils – Eelam Tamil politics in the post-LTTE context

• Email: 686827@soas.ac.uk

Hinni Aarninsalo

• Email: 260961@soas.ac.uk

Jens Augspurger

The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)

• Email: jens_augspurger@soas.ac.uk

Christian Jean Bachheimer

"Unpacking Patterns & Concepts of hedging strategies in Indonesia, Asean with the wider Asia Pacific Powers

• Email: 687462@soas.ac.uk

Gabrielle Bayle

National self-perception and international aid conditionality: A case study of Ethiopia

• Email: 275396@soas.ac.uk

Leda Betti

Making Cars, Remaking People: the Italian State and the Rescaling of Class Relations in the Fiat-Chrysler Case

• Email: 131342@soas.ac.uk

Mehdi Beyad

A Claim to Space: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry as Geopolitical Imaginary in Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran

• Email: mb121@soas.ac.uk

Taylor Kenzie Borowetz

"Building postcolonial narratives of emancipation: Envisioning “struggle” as a constructive process"

• Email: 676614@soas.ac.uk

Taylor Borowetz

• Email: tb50@soas.ac.uk

Nick Branson

Extraversion strategies and aid negotiations: How African hybrid regimes manage donor demands

• Email: 219968@soas.ac.uk

Jung Chun Chang

National Identity construction in Taiwan's political advertising

• Email: 654696@soas.ac.uk

Chi Yeung Chiu

Party interactions between Hong Kong and Taiwan in post-handover years

• Email: 617915@soas.ac.uk

Johann Chacko

Denominational Diversity and Religious Populism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

• Email: 576441@soas.ac.uk

Adrian Chiu

• Email: ac162@soas.ac.uk

Irem Cihan

• Email:

Catherine Craven

Locating Politics in the Global: A Practice-Based Analysis of Tamil Diaspora Engagement

• Email: cc94@soas.ac.uk

Morgane Dussud

• Email: 667678@soas.ac.uk

Ashraf El-Taher

• Email: ae12@soas.ac.uk

Guy Robert Eyre

Walking the Boundaries: Paths to Islamic Politics in Morocco

• Email: 538825@soas.ac.uk

Alaya Forte

New forms of political inclusion or mere tokenism? Reading political representation from a gender and minority perspective in British and French government (working title)

• Email: af23@soas.ac.uk

Sena Galazzi Lian

Saving' Myanmar One Day at a Time: the Everyday Lives of NGO Workers in Yangon (Working title)

• Email: Sena_Galazzi@soas.ac.uk

Matthew Beck Gordon

‘Making Somaliland: Sovereignty and the Social Covenant, 1991- 2019’

• Email: mg84@soas.ac.uk

Maia Holtermann Entwistle

“Petro-Culture: Cultural Infrastructure and Liberal Power in the Arab Gulf States”

• Email: 496402@soas.ac.uk

Ching-Yu Huang

An In-Depth Study in Taiwan's Gender Mainstreaming in the Legislative Politics

• Email: 633317@soas.ac.uk

Kahee Jo

• Email: kj16@soas.ac.uk

Paul Kaletsch

The Recent Aftermath of "Unsuccessful" Contemporary East Asian Urban Student Protests?

• Email: 634248@soas.ac.uk

Mesrob Kassemdjian

Hezbollah and Hamas: A chequered alliance

• Email: mk133@soas.ac.uk

Anna E. Kensicki

Space, Time and Narrative: Mapping Mediated, Experiential and Imaginary Constructs

• Email: 645179@soas.ac.uk

Sirada Khemanitthathai

Emigration State in Transition: Myanmar and the utilisation of emigration as a foreign policy instrument

• Email: 644246@soas.ac.uk

Dwi Kiswanto

Centre-Periphery Relations: Politics and Informalities in Indonesia's Intergovernmental Budget Allocation

• Email: dwi_kiswanto@soas.ac.uk; 643173@soas.ac.uk

Arkmore Kori

Parliamentary Committees and Good Governance in Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Zimbabwe

• Email: ak143@soas.ac.uk

Leon Nelson Kunz

Thesis title: Deliberative Democracy in Social Movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

• Email: l_kunz@soas.ac.uk

Kilhee Kwak

The Transformation and Continuation of South Korean Foreign Policy towards Japan 1965-2015

• Email: 644902@soas.ac.uk

Tommy Chung Yin Kwan

Fail to Re-connect: The Alienated Relationship Between Democratic Progressive Party and the Sunflower Movement

• Email: cy_kwan@soas.ac.uk

Richard Lamb

Geoeconomics and State-Firm Dynamics in China

• Email: 667047@soas.ac.uk

Nazam Laila

Digital Labour Inequality in the Age of Industry 4.0: A Neo-colonial Perspective from Bangladesh

• Email: nazam_laila@soas.ac.uk

Iris Lim

Experiencing the Digital Governance Immigration: a Qualitative Comparison of London and Seoul

• Email: 540108@soas.ac.uk

Pia Ljungman

Making Money: Remodelling Europe The causes and consequences of the European sovereign debt crisis narrative

• Email: 270731@soas.ac.uk

Kuukuwa Manful

• Email: km79@soas,ac,uk

Glenn Lauren (Glennie) Moore

• Email: gm41@soas.ac.uk

Irem Cihan Muter

Cultural Persuasion, Power and Foreign Policy: South Korea and Turkey

• Email: 667897@soas.ac.uk

Munalula Ngenda

State and Society in Zambia: 1990 - 2010

• Email: 642578@soas.ac.uk

Muna Ngenda

• Email: mn37@soas.ac.uk

Ibrahim Nyei

Decentralisation reforms and the implications for power and authority relations in a centralised unitary state. A study of decentralisation reforms in Liberia

• Email: ibrahim_nyei@soas.ac.uk

Oluwapelumi Obisesan

• Email: oo9@soas.ac.uk

Thanos Petouris

Revolutionary Politics in Aden and the Protectorates of South Arabia under British Colonial Rule (1937–67)

• Email: 144949@soas.ac.uk

Noemí Pérez Vásquez

Breaking the silence: women’s access to transitional justice

• Email: np41@soas.ac.uk

Salman Rafi

Intra-Ethnic Fragmentation and the Politics of De-centralising Constitutional Change in Pakistan: A Comparative Study

• Email: 666993@soas.ac.uk

Joshua Rigg

The Engaging Politics of Refusal: Transition and Resistance in Tunisia since the Arab Uprisings

• Email: jr56@soas.ac.uk

Malaika I. Robinson

The US-China Trade War and the Politics of Rhetoric

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Barbara Schenkel

Women's Citizenship in Jordan

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Elke Selter

The International Politics of Heritage and their Impact on Conflict Transformation (working title)

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Mohammad Ali Shabani

Shi’a Brothers, Shi’a Rivals; Competition and Cooperation between Iran and Post-Saddam Iraq

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Dani Solomon

The role of development in the production and contestation of international order

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Suraj Telange

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Daniel Thumpston

Legitimacy in China’s foreign policy: Reception of the "Belt and Road Initiative" in the European Union, 2013-2020 (working title)

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Daniel Songjun Yu

The Status of Ideology in Post-Cold War China-North Korea Relations

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Shenghua Zhang

Populism, Representational Crisis, and Party Organisational Development in Thailand: The Persistence of Pro-Thaksin Parties since 2001

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Hang Zhou

Bring African Bureaucracies back in: Negotiations and Implementation of Chinese Development Engagement in Uganda

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Hang Zhou

The politics of transformation: everyday negotiations in Uganda's roads sector

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Manuel Antonio Ato Del Avellanal Carrera

Interdependent Self and Engaged Citizenship: A Buddhist Approach to the Contemporary Philosophical Debate on Civic Virtue

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Jens Augspurger

The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)

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Rosemary Busto

Religious and Ascetic Influences on Modern Yoga (Working title)

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Mariano Errichiello

Ilm-e-Khshnoom, an occult Zoroastrian movement: History and Beliefs.

• Email: 634383@soas.ac.uk

Nevsky Everett

The Sacramental Character of the Cross in the Assyrian Church of the East

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Monika Hirmer

Becoming the Goddess: Study of a Contemporary South Indian Tantric Tradition and its Implications for Concepts of Personhood, Gender Relations and Everyday Life

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Keith Jarrett

[working title] Led By the Spirit: Navigating the fragments of ‘Oneness’ Pentecostalism in London’s migrant Caribbean congregations

• Email: keithjarrett@gmail.com

Rudder Jenkins

Intra-Christian Dialogue After the Arab Conquest: Accusation and Polemic Engendered by Islam

• Email: 602523@soas.ac.uk

Lana Ko

Mastering Life: Discipline of the Body and Transcendence of Death in the Zhuangzi 莊子

• Email: 601393@soas.ac.uk

Yeonju Lee

Korean New Religions and the Construction of Nationalism

• Email: 645050@soas.ac.uk

Yaara Morris

"The Kinpusen Himitsuden: Space, Myth and Ritual in a Medieval Cultic Site."

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Martina Palladino

The Sanskrit-Gujarati Versions of the Yasna

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Sayam Patthranuprawat

SUB-STORIES IN THE MAHĀBHĀRATA: SIGNIFICANCE AND NARRATIVE FUNCTIONS

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Unnata Pragya

The Concept of Samudghāta in Jaina Philosophy

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Steven R Ring

The post fifth-century trajectory of the Syriac Diatessaron and perspectives on the origins of the Diatessaron

• Email: 644249@soas.ac.uk

Susan Roach

‘The Qualities of the Purified’: attitudes towards asceticism in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya

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Corinne Smith

Kānjī Svāmī: History, Teachings, and Community (working title)

• Email: 257635@soas.ac.uk

Emanuela Sala

Hermeneutical Strategies of Japanese Medieval Religions: The Yōtenki (working title)

• Email: 633905@soas.ac.uk

Mariam Shehata

God, Time, and the World: Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Theory of Divine Temporality

• Email: 645889@soas.ac.uk

Amelia Wood

Yoga, Power and Gender: An Investigation into the Abuse of Power by Modern Gurus (working title)

• Email: 616651@soas.ac.uk

Panggah Ardiyansyah

Heritage as accumulated meaning: Transactions, appropriation and biographies of Hindu-Buddhist materials in pre-modern Indonesia (working title)

• Email: 642001@soas.ac.uk

Arjmand Aziz Ahmad

Exhibiting Australian Aboriginal Contemporary art in Britain: the case of two galleries in London

• Email: 556328@soas.ac.uk

Annwen E Bates

(The Buchu Edit: Representations of Africa and residues of empire in the wellness and wellbeing industry with special reference to the Cape of Good Hope)

• Email: 657334@soas.ac.uk

Helena Cantone

Decolonising the Visual Archive of Salvatore Fiume (1915-1997): Italian Encounters with Postcolonial Africa

• Email: 102961@soas.ac.uk

Ivy Chan

Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong during the 20th Century: Appropriation and Location

• Email: 544789@soas.ac.uk

Jennifer Chih-Chieh Chang

Intertextual Presentation of Individuality in Qing Biography Landscape: A Reinvention of Ming Wu School Sobriquet Painting (working title)

• Email: jennifer_chang@soas.ac.uk

Chih-En Chen

The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe L’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China

• Email: 656581@soas.ac.uk

Choi, Min Young

Artists and Cultural spaces in Kyŏngsŏng (Seoul) during the 1930s

• Email: 576646@soas.ac.uk

Jasdip Singh Dhillon

Changes beyond the surface: Tracking the relationship between paper-making and human change in the Indus river basin region from 1000-1947 through a study of historical paper specimens

• Email: 177440@soas.ac.uk

Yingbai Fu

Dressing up the Manchu Way: Visual Representations of Women’s hair and dress in China and Beyond, 1850s-1940s

• Email: 665234@soas.ac.uk

Ayesha Fuentes

On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects

• Email: 642377@soas.ac.uk

Ai Fukunaga

A Different Type of Tea? British Collecting of Ceramics for Tea gatherings from Meiji Japan: the British Museum and Maidstone Museum Collections

• Email: 632812@soas.ac.uk

Helen Glaister

Collecting in Public and Private: The Ionides Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain, 1920-1970

• Email: 108095@soas.ac.uk

Shiori Hiraki

Onari: Art, Ritual and Power in Early Modern Japan

• Email: 634937@soas.ac.uk

Udomluck Hoontrakul

The Development of Political Economy and Social Formation of the Marginal Polities on the Salween River Basin, Northwestern Thailand During the first millennium CE to the mid-second millennium CE

• Email: 630498@soas.ac.uk

Elizabeth Kelly

A Study of the Zoomorphic Incense Burners of Medieval Khurasan

• Email: 561947@soas.ac.uk

Yijin Kim

Art for the people and democracy: Socio-political Art Movements in Japan from the 1920s to the early 1930s

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Pipad Krajaejun

Deconstructing the Historical Metanarrative of Thai Art and Archaeology: The Emergence of Artistic Styles in the Pre-Ayutthaya Period, or ‘Uthong Art,’ during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

• Email: 634173@soas.ac.uk

Phyllis SY Lau-Casson

Revisiting the 'Prakhon Chai' Hoard, an enigmatic group of ‘bronzes' that came to light in current-day Northeast Thailand since mid-1960s

• Email: 614097@soas.ac.uk

Kexin Ma

Portraits of Objects: Emperor Yongzheng's 'Guwan tu' and the Agency of Artefacts across Media

• Email: 655906@soas.ac.uk

Vera Mey

Signs of a region: in search of the aesthetic imagination of Southeast Asia after 1948 (working title)

• Email: 642375@soas.ac.uk

Hoang Huong Duyen Nguyen

Issues in the curation of Champa art in Vietnam: On stylistic chronology, museum identity and object authenticity

• Email: 615371@soas.ac.uk

Agneta Niklasson

Tracing Visual Evidence of Esoteric Buddhism in the Sculptures of Swat, Gilgit and Kashmir in the mid-6th to the mid-9th century

• Email: 605990@soas.ac.uk

Maeve Nolan

Early Silk Road photography: A case study of how and why Dr. Maynard Owen Williams, Litt. D. (1888-1963) photographed the Silk Road during the Citroen-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition (1931-1932)

• Email: 253519@soas.ac.uk

Alexandre Claude Ouairy

Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Art Practices of Resistance in China, 2007-2018.

• Email: 676233@soas.ac.uk

A Ram Park

A Comparative Study of Women's Buddhist Patronage in Joseon Korea and Edo Japan

• Email: 657195@soas.ac.uk

Kasia Ploskonka

Contesting convention: Contemporary art within the political landscape of post-Soviet Central Asia

• Email: Kasia_Ploskonka@soas.ac.uk

Elizabeth Reid

An investigation into the meaning and significance of the exhibitions of Chinese art at the Whitechapel Art Gallery between 1901 and 1934

• Email: 622349@soas.ac.uk

Katy Shahandeh

Rising from the Ashes: The Semiotics of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Women Artists of the "Burnt Generation" (working title).

• Email: 657214@soas.ac.uk

Jess SON

Visual Representations of the Korean Nation State in the 1880s-1910s

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Sonetra Seng

Beyond the Masterpiece: Function and Design of Divine Adornment in Angkorian Cambodia (9th-14th c.).

• Email: 664859@soas.ac.uk

Saw Tun Lin

The significance of glazed ceramics in the economic life and trade networks of the Buddhist kingdoms of Myanmar in the 14th to 18th century

• Email: 615596@soas.ac.uk

Nicole Valentova

Art as a Tool: Comparative Study of the Centralisation and Manipulation of the Art Scene in Japan in the 1900s and in Korea in the 1920s

• Email: 565757@soas.ac.uk

Mark Womersley

Post Medieval Monastic and Vernacular Architecture within Northern Ethiopia

• Email: 676969@soas.ac.uk

Yuet Heng (Janet) Wong

The Public Disseminations of Chao Shao-an (1905-1998)’s Art and the Construction of Geographical Identities among Cantonese communities across Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s-2010s.

• Email: 655815@soas.ac.uk

Hyesook Yang

Utopia, Nostalgia and Escapism: Art in South Korea during the Korean War, 1950-53

• Email: 655625@soas.ac.uk

Mariana Zegianini

The Global Portrait: Subject, Site and Temporality in Portraiture of the Long Seventeenth Century in China (working title)

• Email: 611154@soas.ac.uk

Kulamitra David Zukas

Revealing the Religious Landscape at Bhaja, Bedsa and Karle, Buddhist Rock-cut Monasteries

• Email: 100975@soas.ac.uk

Gromyko Dumuje

Fragmented Memory In an Invented Land: The Absence of History in the Abacha Dictatorship of Nigeria

• Email: 645704@soas.ac.uk

Sana Goyal

“Awarding Africa” from the Caine to the Commonwealth: First Books, First Prizes, & Women Writers

• Email: 633321@soas.ac.uk

Katarzyna Kubin

Affects of Shame: Questions of Authorial Ethics in Contemporary Postcolonial Writing and Film

• Email: k_kubin@soas.ac.uk

Matteo Giordano

Capital flows and financial integration in a monetary union for a (semi)peripheral member: European capital in Italy from 1980s. A Dependency Approach to Monetary Integration (working title)

• Email: 638454@soas.ac.uk

Olayinka Babalola

Structural Transformation in the Technology Service Sector in Nigeria

• Email: y_babalola@soas.ac.uk

Julian Boys

Industrialisation through regionalism? Policy space, industrial policy and upgrading in the East African Community textiles and apparel sector

• Email: j_boys@soas.ac.uk

Julia Brouillard

How have liberalization reforms in Egypt shaped the determinants of private investment since the 1990s?

• Email: 677400@soas.ac.uk

Julia Ngozi Chukwuma

The Political Economy of Social Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria

• Email: j_chukwuma@soas.ac.uk

Sabina Ciorasteanu

• Email: sc116@soas.ac.uk

Jonathan Clyne

The relationship between plan and market in Chinese industry since 1978, and its role in growth.

• Email: 608323@soas.ac.uk

Feifei Dai

Haigui and Local Entrepreneurs: Do study abroad experiences lead a better perform of Haigui?

• Email: 618298@soas.ac.uk

Heresh Doski

The Oil sectorial strategy of the KRG

• Email: 607154@soas.ac.uk

Di Fang

China as a late developer: its systematic change in the global context of the long cycles of capitalism

• Email: 677091@soas.ac.uk

Julian Manuel Goetz

The Impact of Informal and Rural Labour Markets on Poverty Reduction: A Mixed Methods Study of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Northwest Tanzania (working title)

• Email: j_goetz@soas.ac.uk

Young Joon Hann

Financialisation Transformation of Australian Household Economy: Credit Card Debt Defaulters Research

• Email: 667679@soas.ac.uk

Sebastian Heinen

Distinct Industrial Policy in an Adverse-Context State: Coffee, Construction and Tourism in Rwanda

• Email: 657732@soas.ac.uk

Christiane Heisse

The political economy of natural capital accounting - the case of the World Bank's WAVES partnership

• Email: 656029@soas.ac.uk

Alkim Kiziltug

The Political Economy of World Money

• Email: 583097@soas.ac.uk

Christina Laskaridis

Towards a History of Debt Sustainability: Theory, Policy and Measurement (working title)

• Email: 217924@soas.ac.uk

Christopher Littleboy

Customary tenure and tenure reform in Nigeria

• Email: 618302@soas.ac.uk

Fatemeh Noorbakhsh

Roots of Banking Problems in Iranian Banking System; Considering Oil Price Shock and Islamic Banking Law

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James Naughton

Reform Without Change- Is the 2009 Reform of Concessional Lending Facilities by the IMF illusionary?

• Email: 634955@soas.ac.uk

Shehryar Qazi

Sources and Levels of Urban Rent : The Case of U.S. Commercial Real Estate

• Email: sq3@soas.a.cuk

Pauline Ravillard

The Role of Labour Unions in Explaining the Productivity-Wage Gap in Chile

• Email: 634788@soas.ac.uk

María José Romero

Re-examining public-private partnerships (PPPs) across health and education - How global policy making processes articulate with the domestic policy sphere in Peru and Uganda (working title)

• Email: 667446@soas.ac.uk

Hongseok Ryu

Finanalisation of housing in South Korea

• Email: 616021@soas.ac.uk

Joel Sam

• Email: 222181@soas.ac.uk

HuangNan Shen

The Dynamics Of Reforms Of Large State-Owned Enterprises In China-A Theoretical And Political Economy Analysis

• Email: hs63@soas.ac.uk

Yuning Shi

Financialisation of Chinese Economy (working title)

• Email: 666043@soas.ac.uk

Sofia Torreggiani

Essays in International Economics and Industrial Dynamics

• Email: s_torreggiani@soas.ac.uk

Adam Willman

Farmer's decision-making process: lessons learnt from rural farming communities in Ethiopia & Kenya

• Email: 665772@soas.ac.uk

Xinwen Zhang

Industrialization and Urban-rural Divide in China (Working Title)

• Email: 665171@soas.ac.uk

Longcan Zou

Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative and China's New Normal (working title)

• Email: 656610@soas.ac.uk