Laya Meriyanda Laya is a first year MPhil/PhD candidate in the Law department. Her study focuses on discrimination within digitisation in India.
Chihiro Toya Chihiro Toya is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS. Her research focuses on feminist discourses on sex work, the politics of knowledge production, and the role of counter-media.
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
Carwyn Morris Carwyn Morris is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography in the Department of Media and a Research Fellow in the SOAS China Institute.
Dr Sophie van Huellen Commodity markets; commodity dependency; financialisation; global commodity chains; macro-financial linkages; international finance, machine learning for applied econometrics.
Min Young Choi Min Young Choi is a PhD candidate in the History of Art, School of Arts at SOAS. Her research explores the cultural spaces of Kyŏngsŏng in the 1930s, examining how Korean artists engaged with the socio-political and spatial conditions of colonial rule through visual culture.
Nafiseh Ansari Nafiseh Ansari is a PhD researcher in the Department of History, Religions and Philosophies, working on a critical edition and interdisciplinary study of the Middle Persian text Draxt ī Asūrīg. Her research interests include Pahlavi literature, Zoroastrianism, the visual culture of ancient Iran, and the philosophy of history particularly questions about how meaning, memory, and identity are constructed through historical texts.
Nareeka Ahir Nareeka is a doctoral researcher at SOAS specialising in natural resource politics in Southeast Asia. She is a Bloomsbury scholar and member of the SOAS Environment Cluster.