Dr Innocent Batsani-Ncube Innocent is a Usawa Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Politics Department’s political economy and infrastructure thematic cluster.
Dr Michael Reinsborough History and Sociology of the Sciences; Digital Skills and Technology; Responsible Research and Innovation; Social Movements.
Dr Nazneen Engineer Nazneen Engineer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies.
Professor Jairus Banaji Agrarian history; Late Antiquity and early Islam; historical materialism; and, contemporary India, with a special interest in issues like the critique of minimalist stereotypes of the ancient economy; Marx’s method in Capital; modes of production; the fate of the peasantry under capitalism; and, labour and capital in India’s economy.
Professor Laurence Smith Research: Natural resource management, water resources, rural development and poverty reduction.