Pamoda Jayasundara Pamoda is a doctoral researcher at the College of Law at SOAS and is a Commonwealth and Fulbright Scholar. Her research primarily focuses on the theory and philosophy of Global Animal Law.
Borinot Taychamekiatchai Borinot is a MPhil/PhD student at the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London
Sophie Joseph Murray Sophie Joseph Murray is a doctoral researcher in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology. Her research examines modernism in the Arab world, focusing on gender dynamics, transnational networks, and institutional structures.
Kai-Hsiang Lin Kai-Hsiang Lin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London, researching Khön Vajrakīlaya practice of the Sakya tradition. His work focuses on Tibetan Buddhism, ritual performance, and textual traditions.
William Upson William Upson is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of History, Religions and Philosophies, examining the Jāmiʿ al-Saʿādāt by Muḥammad Mahdī Naraqī (d. 1795), an Islamic philosophical ethical work. His primary research interest lies in the History of Philosophy, with a focus on Islamicate philosophy.
Yu-Syuan Syu Yu-Syuan Syu (Ipiq Matay) is currently an MPhil student in Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS. Her research focuses on the Truku weaving culture revitalisation movement among the Truku weaving practitioners within the broader context of global heritalisation of Indigenous culture and Taiwan’s Indigenous recognition.
Issa Diro Issa Diro is a PhD candidate in the Department of Finance and Management at SOAS University of London. He serves as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PTA) at SOAS. He also delivers workshops and training sessions for students both locally and internationally. His research focuses on fiscal policy, fiscal federalism, taxation, and public finance in fragile and post-conflict states, with a particular emphasis on East Africa.
Dongzhu Xu Dongzhu Xu is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. His research examines the political economy of mineral wealth and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with broader interests in critical minerals, new institutional economics, conflict dynamics, the resource curse and development in the Global South.