Dr Alexej Ulbricht Contemporary Political Theory, Liberalism, Civil Society, Biopower, Climate Crisis, Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Saranpat Boonhok Saranpat Boonhok has been a PhD student at the Centre for Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies since 2020.
Thomas Summers 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.
Zhang Hanxiang Hanxiang Zhang is a London-based filmmaker currently pursuing a PhD in Film Studies at SOAS, University of London. His current practice-based project, Diasporic Chinese Identities in Southeast Asian Tropical Space – A Visual Representation, is related to his previous research on the Chinese diaspora, and continues to explore the identities of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia through documentary filmmaking. Their current PhD research u
Jennifer Fleming 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.
Mireille Marcia Karman Mireille is a PhD researcher at the Department of Politics and International Studies.