Alessandra Francone Alessandra Francone is a doctoral researcher in the LCL department. Her thesis "The effects of sociohistorical context on lexical borrowing: a re-evaluation of "basic vocabulary"" straddles historical linguistics and contact linguistics, and focuses on lexical borrowing in languages spoken in the Baltic region and the central Mediterranean.
Dr Colin Heywood Honorary Research Fellow at the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull
Stella Dixon Stella is an anthropology PhD student. Her thesis explores the effects of climate change on everyday experiences of seasonality and the making of seasonal cultures in central Tokyo.
Labiba Rukhsana Labiba is a Bloomsbury PhD scholar at the School of Law, Gender and Media at SOAS, collaborating with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Professor Mahinda Deegalle Mahinda Deegalle is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, and Professor Emeritus in the Study of Religions, Philosophies, and Ethics at Bath Spa University. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.