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.
Daniela Masini Daniela is a medical doctor and psychologist trained in Brazil, whose PhD project is situated in the field of environmental humanities and subjectivity studies.
Fanqi Lin Institution and economic development, Political economy of industrial policy, Green transition and technological change, China.
Mayukh Chakrabarty Mayukh is a Felix Scholar and doctoral researcher at SOAS, University of London, exploring how life insurance transformed Indian society from 1800 to 2000. His PhD project, titled "Cashing Lives: A History of Indian Life Insurance (1800–2000)," offers a comprehensive institutional history of life insurance in India, tracing its evolution from a colonial financial instrument to a post-independence state monopoly.
Julie Emilie Sharon Hoffmann Julie Hoffmann is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at SOAS, researching the structural limits of technical and financial responses to price volatility in global agricultural markets, with a focus on risk, resilience, and the political economy of agriculture.