Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini Islam and feminism; Islamic family law, politics of gender and family law in Iran and Morocco
Dr Atef Alshaer Linguistics, Arabic Literature and history and Politics of the Arab World. Lecturer in Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Westminster.
Dr Gus Casely-Hayford Dr Gus Casely-Hayford is the inaugural Director of V&A East, appointed in March 2020. He is a curator and cultural historian who writes, lectures and broadcasts widely on culture, having presented a number of series for Sky, BBC radio and television and other channels.
Dr Melanie Green Descriptive grammar and syntactic theory, information structure, syntactic typology, West African languages, especially Hausa and Kenyang.
Dr Vino Kanapathipillai International security, multinational enterprises, international public policy, international political economy, global governance.