Yan-Ho (Eric) Lai Law and Politics, Law and Society, Law and Social Movement, Human Rights, Hong Kong Politics
Professor Lucy Durán Music in the Mande world; Music of Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau; gender and music in West Africa; popular musics of Atlantic Africa; childhood music learning in West Africa; Cuban music, especially son and rumba; radio as a medium; and the world music industry.
Dr Reem Abou-El-Fadl Reem Abou-El-Fadl is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East at SOAS University of London, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Jaruwan Teanmahasatid Jaruwan Teanmahasatid, History Department, Chinese commercial Communities in Thailand and Southeast Asian Countries. Research interest in Commerce, Ethnic Immigrants Entrepreneurs, Socio-Political Economy, Family Businesses, Education and 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.
Dr Akanksha Awal Akanksha Awal is a Social Anthropologist working on the anthropology of gender, education, and freedom in peri-urban spaces of Uttar Pradesh, India, and more recently in China.
Ilyas Tariq Khan Ilyas Khan, School of Arts, Doctoral Student studying Music and interested in investigating whether Music has meaning. He will examine this by looking at the music of two prominent 20th century artists and composers, John Coltrane (Jazz) and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Sufi/Qawwali) and link this back to the work of 19th century Music critic and philosopher Eduard Hanslick