Danushka Medawatte Danushka Medawatte is an Associate Lecturer in International Law at SOAS, University of London. She joined SOAS in September 2025.
Iona Summerson Iona Summerson is an ESRC-funded doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London. Their interdisciplinary research – across settler colonial studies, political theory and geology – is broadly concerned with resistance to and the reproduction of settler colonialism/capitalism, as articulated through its relations to geological nature.
Professor Joanna Newman Joanna Newman MBE, FRSA, is Provost at SOAS, University of London, and was previously the first female Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), an international network of 500 universities.
Dr Mohamad El-Merheb Visiting Lecturer and Research Fellow working on the history of premodern political thought, professional mobility in Islamic societies & the Crusades.
Dr Yuka Kobayashi Yuka Kobayashi is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in China and International Politics.
Surbhi Jain Surbhi Jain is an MPhil/PhD researcher in the Department of Philosophy at SOAS, University of London, specialising in Jaina hermeneutics with a focus on the evolution of the Anuyoga theory. Her interests span wider Jaina philosophy, comparative philosophical traditions, and the study of classical languages relevant to her research.
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