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John Gittings was foreign leader-writer and East Asia editor at The Guardian for many years, retiring in 2003, and covered major events in the area from the late 1970s onwards.

SE Asia, in particular Borneo; environmental anthropology; food, particularly rice, and the use of food as an ‘ethnic marker’ in the context of migration; kinship and ‘relatedness’ through food.

Professor Haim Bresheeth is a filmmaker, photographer and a film studies scholar.

History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history

Buddhist Studies; philosophical and religious doctrines; literature; iconography Buddhist iconography; Buddhist rituals; Buddhist doctrines; Buddhist history

Luca Proietti, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, PhD Japanese Studies. Research interests: Performing Arts, Media, and Literature; Communities and Subcultures; Popular Culture; Traditional Folklore; Transnationalism and Transculturalism; Internet Culture and Social Media

Craig Ryder is a researcher at the Anthropology department. His research is about social media and activism in Sri Lanka. Craig is an expert in digital-approaches to ethnography.

Victoria Allen Stainsby is a doctoral researcher in the department of law focusing on the possibilities of colonial justice within international human rights. She employs plural and feminist methodologies with specific reference to postcolonial Southeast Asia.