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.
Johanna Von Kietzell Johanna is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS.
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 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.