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Luisa is a PhD Arts researcher with a interests focus on Critical Museology, politics of representation, contested ownership, decolonisation in museums, and Afro-Brazilian culture, religion and arts

Cross-cultural artistic exchanges within Eighteenth-century Europe, exploring the semiotic value of East Asian decorative motifs in western royal palaces.

Mega Trends in Global Finance; Inclusive Finance; Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments; Financial Modelling & Forecasting

Anthropology of religion, religious reform (Islam and Pentecostalism), transnational religious networks (Tabligh Jamaʻat), faith-based development, urban anthropology, popular culture, gender, youth, West Africa (the Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria)

Dr Satona Suzuki is currently a senior lecturer in Japanese and Modern Japanese History at SOAS University of London.

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.

Doctoral candidate researching artists of Hong Kong descent living and working in Britain. Other research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese art, diaspora art in Britain, and phenomenology as a tool for art historical research.

Dr Maria Gloria Polimeno is Research Fellow at the SOAS Middle East Institute, University of London.

Muhammad Nabil currently researches contemporary institutional praxis of British Muslim charities in a multicultural and cosmopolitan society (i.e., the UK), and the similitudes and innovativeness of charitable endeavours in contrast to canons and generations of Islamic traditions.