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Thomas Summers is a PhD candidate in African Studies in the department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. His PhD thesis, titled "Digital Swahili: Tracking Language Innovations in Tanzanian Swahili from 2013 to 2023 on X", analyses a corpus of circa 11,000 X posts (circa 120,000 individual lexical units) to find patterns in use and spread of linguistic innovations. His research interests include: African languages in digital spaces, Swahili language and culture, Tanzanian minority languages and the wider East African community.

Ilyas Khan, School of Arts, Doctoral Student studying Music and interested in investigating whether Music has meaning. He will examine this by looking at the music of two prominent 20th century artists and composers, John Coltrane (Jazz) and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Sufi/Qawwali) and link this back to the work of 19th century Music critic and philosopher Eduard Hanslick

David is a PhD researcher in Development Studies focused on regional models for refugee protection in East Africa

Miki Hosaka-Green is a doctoral researcher in Japanese Studies focusing on Japan inspired Western theatre performances, as well as working full time as a game localisation project manager.

Gwawr is a doctoral researcher in the Centre for Human Rights Law at SOAS. She is also an experienced barrister, with a practice spanning research, legal advice and advocacy in both domestic and international human rights contexts.

Raydolph Renault is a Doctoral Researcher at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, specialising in the sources for reconstructing pre-Islamic Arabian religion within the broader context of Late Antiquity and Near Eastern mythologies.

Zixuan Wang is an MPhil/PhD candidate in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. Her research focuses on young Chinese urbanites who abandon white-collar jobs to engage in coffee production in rural Pu’er, Yunnan.

Dina Varpahovsky is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology.

Hongliang is a PhD candidate in Politics and International Studies, his research interests are ASEAN studies, IR in Southeast Asia, and Social Network Analysis in International politics of Asia-Pacific