Yong Woo Cho

Apartment of Korea and Japan : urban history and political aspects
- Email: 644001@soas.ac.uk
Apartment of Korea and Japan : urban history and political aspects
The dissolution of a Cold-War alignment: Korea-Japan relations, 1969-1979
The effect of the genre-based approach on KFL advanced learner's writing and reading
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)
A noisy engagement: an analysis on the conscious awareness in Japanese noise music
Unto Myself Reborn: Self-Translation in Modern Chinese Literature
The Community, Voice and Contributions of the Other Tang (618–907) Women Poets in the Early Modern (16th–18th c.) Anthologies of Poetry.
Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory:Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Puranic Literature and (Temple) Art
Evolution of Śaivism in the Deccan in the 12th to 14th centuries CE
Stories of Creative Destruction in post-2003 Iraqi Fiction
The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)
The Conclusion of the Ritual: a Critical Edition of Y. 62-72, with Translation, Commentary and Ritual Notices
Study of the training of priests in the Zoroastrian tradition; and a text-critical edition of Yasna chapters 12-13
Becoming the Goddess: Study of a Contemporary South Indian Tantric Tradition and its Implications for Concepts of Personhood, Gender Relations and Everyday Life
"Conceptualising Reality" in the Theology of Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī (d. 792AH / 1390CE)
The Sanskrit-Gujarati Versions of the Yasna
The UK’s PREVENT Strategy and state relations with Muslim communities.
Research on visa policies
Global Elite Networks in World Politics
The Role of the Executive Head in Intergovernmental Organizations
Rebel governance in Myanmar: the comparison study between Wa and Kokang (working title)
Diagnosing Ideological Influence: Unpuzzling Social Strain in the Modern Diaspora
Britain and the United Nations, 1945-1951
Queer Diversity and Inclusion Policy and Practice: an Ethnographic Study of Queer Politics in India’s Information City
‘The Protectors of Our Nation’: Discourses of Protection and the Construction of Masculinities in the Qatari and Emirati Militaries
Gendered Citizenship in Jordan: Imagining, Claiming, Resisting Belonging
Discourses of the Domestic: journalists, activists and academics creating the climate for an Indonesian Domestic Workers' Bill.
Between Law and Peace: a Critical Study of the Relationship between Peace Agreements, Law and Socio-political Change
Black Women’s Experiences of Prison in the UK: Towards a Post Slavery Analysis
To what extent are Muslim women's organisations in the UK influenced by Islamic feminism and impacted by organisational stigma? (working title)
Everyday state violence: a queer historical analysis of Anglo/Egyptian counter-terrorism and emergency law
New forms of political inclusion or mere tokenism? Reading political representation from a gender and minority perspective in British and French government (working title)
Gender, Class and Reproduction in Post-Socialist Rural China (working title)
Engaging with (dis)embodiment: Brazilian women and sexual harassment in public spaces.
Women's political life in post-genocide Rwanda (working title)
Feminist Cyborgs and Gods: International Law, Humanism and the limits of the Global Order
An analysis of the gender-based violence in Iraqi Kurdistan – state, society and family violence [working title]
Queer Muslim Subjecthoods: Mapping London's Contested Landscape
Gendering Notions of Belonging: Complicating the conceptualisation of the belonging of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) bodies in London (working title)
Motherhood Across Borders (working title)
Negotiating Space on the 'Right': The everyday politics of Hindu Nationalist and Zionist settler women in India and Israel-Palestine
The Intersection of Corporate Accountability and Environmental Liability: Towards Promoting Sustainable Transnational Environmental Protection in the Extractive Industry
Masculinity in Refugee Diaspora: (Re)presentations of Syrian refugee men who have experienced conflict-related sexual violence
Women's Citizenship in Jordan
Masculinity and Secularism in Historical and Contemporary Frame
Queer Moments, Queer Imaginings: The everyday activism of queer women in India
Intra-household Gender Relations and Modern Marriage Ideal in urban China
Queer Subjectivity and Sexual Governance
Thesis (Working) Title: On Feminist Approaches to Self-Determination in Mandatory Palestine
Defying 'the plan': intimate politics among Palestinian women in Israel
Locating Politics in the Global: A Practice-Based Analysis of Tamil Diaspora Engagement
Dunam after Dunam: Transitions in Farming across the Jordan Valley
The Transnational Practices of Second Generation Ghanaians: A Comparative Study (Working Title)
Motherhood Across Borders (working title)
Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities
Fragmented Memory In an Invented Land: The Absence of History in the Abacha Dictatorship of Nigeria
“Awarding Africa” from the Caine to the Commonwealth: First Books, First Prizes, & Women Writers
Nyerere and Post-Colonial Swahili Literature (working title)
Aesthetics of African Literature: The fiction of Thomas Mofolo, and Sesotho novelists who came after him.
The evolution of communications in HIV / AIDS prevention – Research in South-East Tanzania
Precarious Lives in the Postcolony – The Concept of the Human in Contemporary African Genre Fiction in English
The Taste of Home: Identity and Resistance in Haitian-American Food
Expressing Politeness in Old Tibetan: Investigation based on three Dunhuang Tibetan texts
[working title] The Idea of Beauty. Subjectivity, writing and aesthetic experience in Contemporary Chinese literature
Occult Verse: Poetry and Divination in Early China
Negotiating with Ambiguity: The Reconstruction of Ecological Consciousness in post-2000 Chinese Science Fictions
The Construction of Feminist Utopia in Chinese Internet Literature
The Community, Voice and Contributions of the Other Tang (618–907) Women Poets in the Early Modern (16th–18th c.) Anthologies of Poetry.
The Beautiful Other: What Lies Behind the Image of Russian Fashion Models in Contemporary Japan. (working title)
Impact of Crisis as a Condition on Individual and Intergenerational Aspirations (working title)
Golf Course Culture in China: An Exploration of Gender, Class, and Social Stratification (working title)
The politics and ethics of climate change adaptation in Sri Lanka's Dry Zone (working title)
Identification in Contemporary Hong Kong: Ethnographic Exploration on the Politics of Cantopop and Its Lyrics
Crossing Borders; The Evolution of Food Traditions in Post-Ottoman Thrace
Food and tourism in Istria: Local specialities and the construction of a region (working title)
Riding The Seoul Train: An Ethnographic Exploration Of The British K-Pop Fandom (working title)
'Each Life Has Its Place': Transgender Experiences in Contemporary Japan
Caste Genealogies: Myths and Histories of Dalit Communities from Saurashtra, India
Tea, Taste and Traders: Cultural Mediators and the Reinvention of the Chinese ‘Traditional’ Beverage (working title)
Jews Becoming Public: Emergent Practices Within Casa Adret, a Jewish Cultural Centre in Barcelona
Being Muslim in Dhaka: Dhormo, Ethics and Ambiguity in the Everyday
Power, Identity, and Audiences in Indigenous Tourism: Ainu Entanglements in Hokkaido and Beyond (working title)
'Embrace me as I am’: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan community Surrounding Male Pornstars
Social Space and the Sex Worker: Family, Networks and Collectivisation in the Indian Sex Workers' Movement (Working Title)
Food, care and the digital sphere: Community group buying (shequ tuangou) in urban China
Around the Monastic Table: The Experience of Monastic Food for Retreat Participants in France (working title)
Mango TV as Youths’ CCTV - An Ethnography of Youths, Media and Nation
Perceptions of cultural preservation, race, gender, hierarchy, nationhood, and immigration in London pub culture
Blurred Imaginaries: Future-making and digital health in Delhi
Chinese Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Seoul: Body Politics, Transnationalism and Decentralised Centralism
High Fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among queer men in urban India (working title)
Tradition, to preserve or innovate?: The Many Adaptations and Interpretations of Cambodian Shadow Puppets
Cosmopolitan Creatives: Asian Self-Making and Consumption in London (working title)
A World of Our Own: The Negotiation of Cosmology in Contemporary Japanese Animation
Queer Feminist Kinship: An Intersectional Approach to Activism and Community in Chengdu, China (working title)
India’s Democratic Revolution: The Right to Information and the Anti-Corruption Discourse
Between secularity and religiosity: a Buddhism-oriented town in Mainland China (working title)
Innovation in Psychiatric Crisis Care: An Ethnographic Investigation into Peer-Supported Open Dialogue (POD) in Inner London (working title)
Architecture and Aspirations: An Ethnographic Exploration of Hospital Infrastructure in Myanmar
An Island of Peace in an ocean of turbulence: Understanding the sources of Ghana’s stability and limited economic progress
Trade Union Responses to Neoliberalism in Ghana
Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan
The Role of UN Special Political Missions in Conflict
How Does Diaspora Finance Shape Infrastructure Development in Nigeria?
Water and development in a variegated capitalism. Dutch water aid & trade development reproducing and transforming water access in Mozambique
The Dynamics of Chinese Private OFDI in Ethiopia: A Comparison of Light Manufacturing Industry and Construction Materials Industry
Governance capabilities, industrialisation and the state: the case of the cotton and textile sectors in Ethiopia
Financialisation of the housing sector and urban transformation in Istanbul and Sao Paulo
The Value of the Global Value Chains: Fragmentation of Production, Vertically-Specialized Industrialization, and Uneven Capitalist Development (working title)
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
Agrarian Capitalism in Neoliberal Indonesia: Class, Production and Reproduction
Lakeview: An Alternative History of Nile Basin Water Politics
Dunam after Dunam: Transitions in Farming across the Jordan Valley
“The Role of the Oil & Gas Sector in Late Industrialisation: Lessons from Malaysia” (Working Title)
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)
Taxation and state-building in Afghanistan, a political economy framework
Humanitarian Activist Citizens: Desplazado Protests and State Humanitarianism in Bogotá, Colombia
Economic zones as spatial strategy in Egypt and Tunisia (working title)
Sociology of work in conflict-affected communities: Labour, gender and violence in El-Rahad, Sudan
Democratisation in the midst of war: Elections and Electoral politics in Afghanistan
The Transnational Practices of Second Generation Ghanaians: A Comparative Study (Working Title)
Experiencing the Digital Governance Immigration: a Qualitative Comparison of London and Seoul
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)
Talibés who beg in urban Senegal: how does global child rights discourse influence policy and practice?
Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities
The Chinese Agribusiness in the Global Soybean Commodity Chain
Land-pooling for the ‘smart city’ of Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh: Inclusive development or land dispossession in a different guise?
Transition from informality to more formality of small and medium enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria
Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy
The Agrarian Question in West Punjab since 1885: The Politics of the Formation of a New Peasantry
Rethinking the Local–international Dichotomy in Relation to Refugee Protection and Assistance: The Politics of Practice in Managing South Sudanese Displacement (working title)
Documenting resistance movements in the DRC: sites, forms and explanations (working title)
The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title)
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).
Selling modernity - An ethnography of the everyday practice of supermarket chains in Mumbai
Capitalist Transformation in Transition: Exploring business political elite linkage in post-war Angola (working title)
Human trafficking in the wake of natural disaster: the case of Typhoon Haiyan
Questioning BRTs: A win-win solution to public transport problems in developing countries? (ESRC-ITF collaborative studentship)
Shaping Room for Manoeuvre: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation as a Forest Policy Choice in Indonesia (working title)
The Rise and Phenomena of African Philanthropy (working title)
GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY IN AFRICAN CITIES: Structures and Practices in Northern Nigeria for Sustainable Development; A Case Study of Kaduna Metropolis.
Neoliberalism in a Small Country: Social Structures, Property Ownership and Class Structure in Northern Cyprus
Cultural Propaganda in Britain’s Informal Empire: The British Council in the Persian Gulf c. 1939 - 1971.
The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)
The Poro: Society, Community and Perception in Liberian and Sierra Leone during the 19th Century
War and Postal Communication in Republican China, 1916-1949
The Conclusion of the Ritual: a Critical Edition of Y. 62-72, with Translation, Commentary and Ritual Notices
Study of the training of priests in the Zoroastrian tradition; and a text-critical edition of Yasna chapters 12-13
19th Century Protestant Missionary Perceptions of Chinese Islam
Makings of a Warrior Race in Iraq: The Case of the Assyrians
Religion and Economy: Zoroastrian Priests and Fire Temples in the Economy of Sasanian Iran
Ilm-e-Khshnoom, an occult Zoroastrian movement: History and Beliefs.
Domestic Work in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, A Focus on Durban and Ixopo From 1920-1960
Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: the case of Cyprus under Ottoman and British rules, late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries
The Idea of the Refugee in the Discourse and Practices of NGOs in the Ottoman Empire (1915-1926): The Near East Relief
The Treatment of Deportees and Prisoners-of-War in Hittite Texts
The Qing Perspective of ‘Europeans’, 1644-1858
"Conceptualising Reality" in the Theology of Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī (d. 792AH / 1390CE)
Cultures of Consumption: Popular Responses to Intoxicants in Colonial Bengal
Looking like a state: Materiality and Aesthetics in British Mandate Palestine
A Social History of Food and Cooking in Ghana in the 19th Century
Environment, Commerce and Imperial Politics in South-Eastern Mongolia (1644–1912)
History of Disaster, Recovery, and Humanitarianism: The Japanese Red Cross Society in the Modern World, 1877-1945
Mutsu Munemitsu and British Influence on Japanese Modern Nation Building in the Nineteenth Century
The Military Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Siam: Changes and Continuities
Japan in the Establishment of Public Health in China, 1901-1937
Developing intercultural competence through Korean language education: Conceptualisation, transformation and adaptation
Chosŏn Korean’s perspectives and emotions toward the West, 1876-1902
A Comparative Study on Representations of "Comfort Women" in Korean and Korean American Literature
The effect of the genre-based approach on KFL advanced learner's writing and reading
The supernatural in pre-modern Japanese illustrated fiction
A Study on Sino-Korean Poetry of the Enlightenment Era
Overcoming the Constraints to On-Grid Renewable Energy Investments in Nigeria
Climate Change and Vulnerable Coastal Communities in Ghana (working title)
Sovereign Wealth Funds in Oil-Rich States: A Blessing in Disguise in Overcoming the Resource Curse
Social Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
Consumer disposition towards foreign and domestically produced products and the impact of Country of Origin
Mechanisms of land tenure and gendered access to land within complex households in rural Burkina Faso.
Studies on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and merger waves : Evidence from USA, Europe and Asia. (Working title).
Emerging Market Debt and Liquidity Risk
Determinants of Chinese Indonesian Entrepreneurship in the Oil Palm Industry
The Role of State-Owned Enterprises in Chinese Cross -Border Mergers and Acquisitions: An Institutional Perspective
The Impact of Audit Quality on the CSR Disclosure and Performance
Impact of financial technology on financial inclusion and economic growth in Africa
Governance and Leadership of International Organisations: The United Nations in the context of the 2030 Agenda
The Sino-Japanese Cooperation on Clean Coal Technologies in the Post-ODA Period: A Local Policy-Making Interplay
Employment Relations in Japan
Firm Level Catch-up from a Dynamic Capabilities Perspective: High- and Medium-tech Firms in Egypt
Fellowship amongst peers: A network analysis of interbank lending markets
FX Option Pricing Model: A New Approach
Agriculture and Public Policy: Dissecting the Role of Public Policy in Kenyan Agricultural Development
Toward a Theory of Cultural Untranslatability with Application to Japan, UK and USA Cross-cultural Business Management and Beyond
China-Africa Interactions: Infrastructure investment
Promoting Sustainability in China and Consumer Psychology
Exploring power dynamics represented through trust between patients, medical staff and the Chinese healthcare system
Growth strategies and Rural Transformations in Bhutan (provisional)
Entry mode of emerging market firms
Business Resilience in Libya. Resilience, Network and institutional Theory
Financial inclusion and Economic growth
Energy Market Implications for Emerging Market Debt Markets
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in The Middle East
"Monitoring the effects of changing food prices on food security and nutrition – the Minimum Calorie Expenditure Share (MCES)"
Palm oil and the demise of swidden agriculture: The effects of agrarian change on food security and nutrition in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
The Vote with the Wallet
Limits to Arbitrage in Oil Markets
Peer-to-peer lending platforms and SME financing in China
The impact of Chinese infrastructure OFDI on host country economy and domestic firm performance
Mind the gap, the impact of financial literacy on saving and payment methods: is there any gender gap?
The impact of social media marketing on consumer buying behaviour – A case of Kuwaiti’s fashion retail market
International Activities of Chinese Banks
The impact of Chinese investment loans on the development of Africa: Case Studies of Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, and Senegal.
Influence of FDI on regional inequality in post-reform China
Agriculture and Health in Low Income Countries - Investigating Farm Household and Wider Interactions in sub Saharan Africa (working title)
The role of timing in sensemaking in the psychological contract and trust reciprocity process of foreign and British babysitters in the UK
Consumer Need for Uniqueness as Antecedents to Self-Identification in the Experiential Market
The (in)effectiveness of corporate disclosure in reducing corporate scandals
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.
Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences
Information Structure in Muwé-ke, Nepal
Náhuat-Pipil: The Encoding of Ecological Knowledge in Semantic and Lexical Categorisation Systems
Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu
Choice of languages and scripts in the Japanese linguistic landscape (tentative title)
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
A Comparison of the Portuguese Creoles of Malacca and Macau
Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese
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
Ethnobiological inventories of a multilingual community in Cameroon
A Documentation and Description of Disappearing Predicates in Southern Amami-Ōshima
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)
Multilingualism in Tower Hamlets: Sylheti practices, places, connections and ideologies
Negation, Prediction and Thought-ascription — A Study of Quasi-logical Terms in Mandarin Chinese
A case study of Master-Apprentice initiative with new speakers of Ryukyuan languages (Working Title)
Physical Pain and Mother-daughter Relationships in Post-1990 Chinese Literature
Hegemony and Counter-hegemony in Multilingual China: A case study of language policy and campaigns in Shanghai [WORKING TITLE]
History of Hanbalite political thought
The Evolution of Arabic Public Oratory in the Early Muslim Period [1st-3rd/7th-9th centuries]
Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences
Transformations in the Attitude of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth School towards the Engagement in Theological Polemics (Al Kalam)
Militarism in Israeli and Palestinian Cinemas
Epistemological Congruence of Modernist Thought: a Case Study of Minority Fiqh and Other Related Matters
Istanbul through Moroccan Travellers’ Eyes from 16th to 18th Century: a Comparative Study of Moroccan-Ottoman Travel Writing
Gender Relations in the Qur'ān
Muslim women mystics: The faith stories of contemporary British Muslim women in the transnational Bani Alawiyya Tarīqa of Hadhramawt
Riḥla: Interpreting the Islamic city through Muslim Travellers by revisiting the meaning of travel from the medieval period to early modern times.
Assessing the Impact of Greco-Roman Texts on British and German Writers’ Perception of Iran in the Qajar Period
Zionism and its Discourse in Indian Muslim Politics from 1917 to 1947
Individuality and identity in cuneiform: personalising economic documentation from the 21st and 20th centuries BCE
Tocando Tumbao: performance perspectives on Cuban pianism
Dyslexia, Sensory Ethnomusicology, and Chopi timbila Xylophone Music in Mozambique
The Reception History of Bob Dylan in Indian Popular Music
Growing Through Music: Developing Teaching For Personal and Social Outcomes within Instrumental Music Teaching in UK
Paiziluo Shawm and Percussion Bands in Hubei Province (China) and Social Changes
The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity and Processes of "Improvisation" in Mande Kora Music
Metal Music and its Relationship to Folk Music and National Identity in the Middle East
Listening to New Raï: Algerian identities in the 21st century.
A Reflexive Study of Music Practice in a UK Paediatric Hospital Setting
Singing Sufis in Text: Indo-Persian Music and Sufi Poetics ca. 1250-1600
Evaluate Takemitsu Approaches for Integrating World Music's - Portable Music & Non-Portable Music
Music as a Method for Sustaining and Revitalising the Ainu Language and Identity
Archives of Sri Lanka's Vocal Arts: The Lyrical Genres of the Nevill Collection as Refractions of Sri Lanka, Past and Present
Activism and Urbanism in Contemporary Indigenous Music-Making in Australia.
Listening, Khaleeji-Style
Indian Rhythm and Life Writing in Cross-Sensory Composition (Practice Research)
The Return of Indonesian Exile Writing: A Literary Analysis of the Works of Exiled Indonesian Authors
Narrative, memory and belonging: Constructing a ‘Hazara identity’ abroad
'Restructuring Nepal' (working title)
Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory:Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Puranic Literature and (Temple) Art
An Archaeology of Screenwriting in Early Indian Cinema (1930s-1950s)
Sayyid Bahodine Majrouh: an intellectual biography
Evolution of Śaivism in the Deccan in the 12th to 14th centuries CE
Upstart Punches: Humour and Satire in Urdu Literature
Gendered constructs in Haṭha Yoga
'Nepal-China relations' (working title)
The Reception History of Bob Dylan in Indian Popular Music
Portraits of Objects: Emperor Yongzheng's 'Guwan tu' and the Agency of Artefacts across Media
Indian Rhythm and Life Writing in Cross-Sensory Composition (Practice Research)
Transnational Law and Financial Governance: the impact and effectiveness of Public International Law on the enforcement of financial regulation.
Undertaking Islamophobia will improve human rights for the Muslims in the UK
The Legal Standing, Autonomy and Equivocal Personhood of Enslaved Black People In 17th-19th Century Britain and Jamaica
The regional protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A comparative analysis of the position in Europe, the America's and Africa
Law, politics and legal theory - A historical and socio-political exploration of the right to liberty in Pakistan
The Effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on contractual obligations under the Kuwaiti Civil Code 1980
Right to Freedom of Religion and Belief in Sudan
Development of the Waqf in Hanafi legal discourse
Islamic Marriages solemnised in the UK among Swahili speakers: A case study of Zanzibari women
Critique of Economic Sanctions and connection with the general state of international law. The absence of examination of material circumstances, postcolonialism and socioeconomic rights.
Working title: Nationality and International, Mixed, and Minority Marriages in Qatar and select GCC Jurisdictions: A Sociolegal and Comparative Analysis
(Working title) The Development of the Maqasid Model in the Modern Era and its utility to the application of Islamic law today
The Human-Nature-Animal Nexus: Analysing the Impact of Ecocentric Theories in an Anthropocentric World
Nothing Secedes Like Succession: Why Self-Determination Movements Fail to Achieve State Sovereignty and International Recognition
Between Law and Peace: a Critical Study of the Relationship between Peace Agreements, Law and Socio-political Change
An Assessment of Boko Haram's War from Islamic Law of War Perspective
The Costs, Myths and Realities of International Investment Treaty Arbitration in the Extractives Sectors and West African States.
The impact of Legal Pluralism on the Role and Status of Afghanistan’s Judiciary (2001-2020)
A Critical Assessment of the Legal Framework of International Commercial Arbitration in the Onshore UAE (Towards Certainty and Modernity for an Arbitration- Friendly Jurisdiction)
Working Title: The Responsibility to Protect: A critical look at the international community’s response to Sudan’s conflicts
External self-determination under international law.
The Islamic Sacred Months as a contemporary peace agreement
Colonial Law in Minangkabau. Legal Discourses and the Enframing of West Sumatran Social Worlds
Asylum Seeking and Responsibility of States in Refugee Law: The Case of Turkish Asylum System
Working Title: Resilient Professionalism under Authoritarianism: Building Professional Legal Culture and the Rule of Law in Post-colonial Hong Kong
Indian Farmers and Rights over Biogenetic Resources towards Greater Food Sovereignty
Beyond Judicial Veto: Public Trust Doctrine, Administrative Decision Making and Implementation of Mining Related Laws
Islamic financial law: a review of sustainability considerations and its impact
The Suicide Bombing Girls of Boko Haram; Between State and Structural Violence
International Justice: Solution or Obstacles to Peace in Housing, Land and Property Conflicts
The British Labour Party's post-war commitment to Human Rights
The Co-production of Nuclear Technology and Global Political Order
Water-related Subsidies and Groundwater Regulation in India: Social and Environmental Dimensions
Fatāwā and the Development of a Political Justice in Islam: Between Contemporary Institutionalised Iftāʾ and Independent Scholars’ Organization
The Intersection of Corporate Accountability and Environmental Liability: Towards Promoting Sustainable Transnational Environmental Protection in the Extractive Industry
Integrating Environmental Rule of Law into the domestic environmental law framework: Challenges and Opportunities for Bangladesh
Gender parity in inheritance law in the United Arab Emirates
Hungry Ghosts of Empire: Reimagining Postcolonial Narrative and Law
Efficacy of Legal Mechanisms to Recognise the Rights of Climate Change Displaced Persons (CCDPs): A Case Study in Bangladesh
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
The Emerging Normative Framework of the African Union on Constitutionalism – The Legal Process and the Contribution to Peace, Security and Democratic State Building
Transnationalism and the Tamils – Eelam Tamil politics in the post-LTTE context
The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)
"Unpacking Patterns & Concepts of hedging strategies in Indonesia, Asean with the wider Asia Pacific Powers
National self-perception and international aid conditionality: A case study of Ethiopia
Making Cars, Remaking People: the Italian State and the Rescaling of Class Relations in the Fiat-Chrysler Case
A Claim to Space: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry as Geopolitical Imaginary in Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran
"Building postcolonial narratives of emancipation: Envisioning “struggle” as a constructive process"
Extraversion strategies and aid negotiations: How African hybrid regimes manage donor demands
National Identity construction in Taiwan's political advertising
Party interactions between Hong Kong and Taiwan in post-handover years
Denominational Diversity and Religious Populism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Locating Politics in the Global: A Practice-Based Analysis of Tamil Diaspora Engagement
Walking the Boundaries: Paths to Islamic Politics in Morocco
New forms of political inclusion or mere tokenism? Reading political representation from a gender and minority perspective in British and French government (working title)
Saving' Myanmar One Day at a Time: the Everyday Lives of NGO Workers in Yangon (Working title)
‘Making Somaliland: Sovereignty and the Social Covenant, 1991- 2019’
“Petro-Culture: Cultural Infrastructure and Liberal Power in the Arab Gulf States”
An In-Depth Study in Taiwan's Gender Mainstreaming in the Legislative Politics
The Recent Aftermath of "Unsuccessful" Contemporary East Asian Urban Student Protests?
Hezbollah and Hamas: A chequered alliance
Space, Time and Narrative: Mapping Mediated, Experiential and Imaginary Constructs
Emigration State in Transition: Myanmar and the utilisation of emigration as a foreign policy instrument
Centre-Periphery Relations: Politics and Informalities in Indonesia's Intergovernmental Budget Allocation
Parliamentary Committees and Good Governance in Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Zimbabwe
Thesis title: Deliberative Democracy in Social Movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The Transformation and Continuation of South Korean Foreign Policy towards Japan 1965-2015
Fail to Re-connect: The Alienated Relationship Between Democratic Progressive Party and the Sunflower Movement
Geoeconomics and State-Firm Dynamics in China
Digital Labour Inequality in the Age of Industry 4.0: A Neo-colonial Perspective from Bangladesh
Experiencing the Digital Governance Immigration: a Qualitative Comparison of London and Seoul
Making Money: Remodelling Europe The causes and consequences of the European sovereign debt crisis narrative
Cultural Persuasion, Power and Foreign Policy: South Korea and Turkey
State and Society in Zambia: 1990 - 2010
Decentralisation reforms and the implications for power and authority relations in a centralised unitary state. A study of decentralisation reforms in Liberia
Revolutionary Politics in Aden and the Protectorates of South Arabia under British Colonial Rule (1937–67)
Breaking the silence: women’s access to transitional justice
Intra-Ethnic Fragmentation and the Politics of De-centralising Constitutional Change in Pakistan: A Comparative Study
The Engaging Politics of Refusal: Transition and Resistance in Tunisia since the Arab Uprisings
The US-China Trade War and the Politics of Rhetoric
Women's Citizenship in Jordan
The International Politics of Heritage and their Impact on Conflict Transformation (working title)
Shi’a Brothers, Shi’a Rivals; Competition and Cooperation between Iran and Post-Saddam Iraq
The role of development in the production and contestation of international order
Legitimacy in China’s foreign policy: Reception of the "Belt and Road Initiative" in the European Union, 2013-2020 (working title)
The Status of Ideology in Post-Cold War China-North Korea Relations
Populism, Representational Crisis, and Party Organisational Development in Thailand: The Persistence of Pro-Thaksin Parties since 2001
Bring African Bureaucracies back in: Negotiations and Implementation of Chinese Development Engagement in Uganda
The politics of transformation: everyday negotiations in Uganda's roads sector
Interdependent Self and Engaged Citizenship: A Buddhist Approach to the Contemporary Philosophical Debate on Civic Virtue
The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)
Religious and Ascetic Influences on Modern Yoga (Working title)
Ilm-e-Khshnoom, an occult Zoroastrian movement: History and Beliefs.
The Sacramental Character of the Cross in the Assyrian Church of the East
Becoming the Goddess: Study of a Contemporary South Indian Tantric Tradition and its Implications for Concepts of Personhood, Gender Relations and Everyday Life
[working title] Led By the Spirit: Navigating the fragments of ‘Oneness’ Pentecostalism in London’s migrant Caribbean congregations
Intra-Christian Dialogue After the Arab Conquest: Accusation and Polemic Engendered by Islam
Mastering Life: Discipline of the Body and Transcendence of Death in the Zhuangzi 莊子
Korean New Religions and the Construction of Nationalism
"The Kinpusen Himitsuden: Space, Myth and Ritual in a Medieval Cultic Site."
The Sanskrit-Gujarati Versions of the Yasna
SUB-STORIES IN THE MAHĀBHĀRATA: SIGNIFICANCE AND NARRATIVE FUNCTIONS
The Concept of Samudghāta in Jaina Philosophy
The post fifth-century trajectory of the Syriac Diatessaron and perspectives on the origins of the Diatessaron
‘The Qualities of the Purified’: attitudes towards asceticism in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya
Kānjī Svāmī: History, Teachings, and Community (working title)
Hermeneutical Strategies of Japanese Medieval Religions: The Yōtenki (working title)
God, Time, and the World: Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Theory of Divine Temporality
Yoga, Power and Gender: An Investigation into the Abuse of Power by Modern Gurus (working title)
Heritage as accumulated meaning: Transactions, appropriation and biographies of Hindu-Buddhist materials in pre-modern Indonesia (working title)
Exhibiting Australian Aboriginal Contemporary art in Britain: the case of two galleries in London
(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)
Decolonising the Visual Archive of Salvatore Fiume (1915-1997): Italian Encounters with Postcolonial Africa
Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong during the 20th Century: Appropriation and Location
Intertextual Presentation of Individuality in Qing Biography Landscape: A Reinvention of Ming Wu School Sobriquet Painting (working title)
The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe L’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China
Artists and Cultural spaces in Kyŏngsŏng (Seoul) during the 1930s
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
Dressing up the Manchu Way: Visual Representations of Women’s hair and dress in China and Beyond, 1850s-1940s
On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects
A Different Type of Tea? British Collecting of Ceramics for Tea gatherings from Meiji Japan: the British Museum and Maidstone Museum Collections
Collecting in Public and Private: The Ionides Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain, 1920-1970
Onari: Art, Ritual and Power in Early Modern Japan
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
A Study of the Zoomorphic Incense Burners of Medieval Khurasan
Art for the people and democracy: Socio-political Art Movements in Japan from the 1920s to the early 1930s
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
Revisiting the 'Prakhon Chai' Hoard, an enigmatic group of ‘bronzes' that came to light in current-day Northeast Thailand since mid-1960s
Portraits of Objects: Emperor Yongzheng's 'Guwan tu' and the Agency of Artefacts across Media
Signs of a region: in search of the aesthetic imagination of Southeast Asia after 1948 (working title)
Issues in the curation of Champa art in Vietnam: On stylistic chronology, museum identity and object authenticity
Tracing Visual Evidence of Esoteric Buddhism in the Sculptures of Swat, Gilgit and Kashmir in the mid-6th to the mid-9th century
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)
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Art Practices of Resistance in China, 2007-2018.
A Comparative Study of Women's Buddhist Patronage in Joseon Korea and Edo Japan
Contesting convention: Contemporary art within the political landscape of post-Soviet Central Asia
An investigation into the meaning and significance of the exhibitions of Chinese art at the Whitechapel Art Gallery between 1901 and 1934
Rising from the Ashes: The Semiotics of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Women Artists of the "Burnt Generation" (working title).
Visual Representations of the Korean Nation State in the 1880s-1910s
Beyond the Masterpiece: Function and Design of Divine Adornment in Angkorian Cambodia (9th-14th c.).
The significance of glazed ceramics in the economic life and trade networks of the Buddhist kingdoms of Myanmar in the 14th to 18th century
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
Post Medieval Monastic and Vernacular Architecture within Northern Ethiopia
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.
Utopia, Nostalgia and Escapism: Art in South Korea during the Korean War, 1950-53
The Global Portrait: Subject, Site and Temporality in Portraiture of the Long Seventeenth Century in China (working title)
Revealing the Religious Landscape at Bhaja, Bedsa and Karle, Buddhist Rock-cut Monasteries
Fragmented Memory In an Invented Land: The Absence of History in the Abacha Dictatorship of Nigeria
“Awarding Africa” from the Caine to the Commonwealth: First Books, First Prizes, & Women Writers
Affects of Shame: Questions of Authorial Ethics in Contemporary Postcolonial Writing and Film
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)
Structural Transformation in the Technology Service Sector in Nigeria
Industrialisation through regionalism? Policy space, industrial policy and upgrading in the East African Community textiles and apparel sector
How have liberalization reforms in Egypt shaped the determinants of private investment since the 1990s?
The Political Economy of Social Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria
The relationship between plan and market in Chinese industry since 1978, and its role in growth.
Haigui and Local Entrepreneurs: Do study abroad experiences lead a better perform of Haigui?
The Oil sectorial strategy of the KRG
China as a late developer: its systematic change in the global context of the long cycles of capitalism
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)
Financialisation Transformation of Australian Household Economy: Credit Card Debt Defaulters Research
Distinct Industrial Policy in an Adverse-Context State: Coffee, Construction and Tourism in Rwanda
The political economy of natural capital accounting - the case of the World Bank's WAVES partnership
The Political Economy of World Money
Towards a History of Debt Sustainability: Theory, Policy and Measurement (working title)
Customary tenure and tenure reform in Nigeria
Roots of Banking Problems in Iranian Banking System; Considering Oil Price Shock and Islamic Banking Law
Reform Without Change- Is the 2009 Reform of Concessional Lending Facilities by the IMF illusionary?
Sources and Levels of Urban Rent : The Case of U.S. Commercial Real Estate
The Role of Labour Unions in Explaining the Productivity-Wage Gap in Chile
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)
Finanalisation of housing in South Korea
The Dynamics Of Reforms Of Large State-Owned Enterprises In China-A Theoretical And Political Economy Analysis
Financialisation of Chinese Economy (working title)
Essays in International Economics and Industrial Dynamics
Farmer's decision-making process: lessons learnt from rural farming communities in Ethiopia & Kenya
Industrialization and Urban-rural Divide in China (Working Title)
Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative and China's New Normal (working title)