Jerry Li Haolin Li is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London. His research explores Chinese tea merchants, gastrodiplomacy, and the transnational cultural and economic networks surrounding Chinese tea.
Kelly Anne Hagen Kelly Hagen, Centre for Global Media and Communications. Diaspora as the Front Line: Online Activism and Transnational Solidarity Amongst the Palestinian Diaspora in the West. Palestinian diaspora in the West, Palestine, online activism, social movements, transnational solidarity
Xinyang Zhao Xinyang Zhao is an MPhil/PhD student in China and Inner Asia Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her current research focuses on modern Chinese literature.
Wu Liqi Liqi Wu, a PhD student in law, focuses on the intersections of climate change, human mobility, state obligations, and the capability approach to explore how legal frameworks can better protect displaced populations.
Johanna Von Kietzell Johanna is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, supervised by Prof. Fiona B Adamson, Dr. Nathaniel George and Dr. Nicholas Westcott.
Hossein Bastani Hossein Bastani is an academic researcher and investigative journalist with BBC Persian, specialising in Iranian political affairs. Over the past two decades, he has produced dozens of investigative television programmes and authored more than two thousand in-depth reports and analytical articles on Iran’s domestic and foreign policy.
Mayukh Chakrabarty Mayukh is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at SOAS, University of London. His doctoral research focuses on the institutional history of life insurance in India, with broader interests in financial governance, colonial legacies, and science and technology studies.
Bonosree Rani Bonosree Rani, a Commonwealth Scholar, is currently serving as a Doctoral Researcher on environment and outer space law at SOAS University of London.