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Tat Yan Kong is Professor of Comparative Politics and Development Studies at SOAS, and Co-director of the London Asia Pacific Centre for Social Science.

Hanee Kang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London, with research interests encompassing international development aid, aid philosophy, development discourse, postcolonialism, post-colonialism, colonial modernity, postcolonial donors, aid programs utilising national development experiences, and South Korean aid.

Dr Kang is an economic sociologist working in the field of political economy of development.

Matt Birkinshaw is Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS.

Doctoral candidate researching artists of Hong Kong descent living and working in Britain. Other research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese art, diaspora art in Britain, and phenomenology as a tool for art historical research.

Samuel Lai is a PhD candidate whose research project examines the multiple facades of Caacaanteng ('Tea Restaurant'): from licensing and popular history, ingredients and cuisines, server-customer relationship, skill acquisition, to sociability especially in the locally narrated form of Jancingmei ('Flavour of Human Warmth').

From March 2025 until March 2026 Dr Vevaina acts as research associate for the project Funerals, Faith, and Finance in the Parsi Zoroastrian Diaspora