Dr Xu Peng Dr. Xu Peng is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Illicit Economies, Violence, and Development (CIVAD) at SOAS University of London.
Luca Proietti Luca Proietti, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, PhD Japanese Studies. Research interests: Performing Arts, Media, and Literature; Communities and Subcultures; Popular Culture; Traditional Folklore; Transnationalism and Transculturalism; Internet Culture and Social Media
Mr Craig Ryder Craig Ryder is a researcher at the Anthropology department. His research is about social media and activism in Sri Lanka. Craig is an expert in digital-approaches to ethnography.
Victoria Allen Stainsby Victoria Allen Stainsby is a doctoral researcher in the department of law focusing on the possibilities of colonial justice within international human rights. She employs plural and feminist methodologies with specific reference to postcolonial Southeast Asia.
Amir Massoumian Amir Massoumian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS University of London.
Dr Vidya Venkat Vidya Venkat has worked in India for over a decade as a journalist in a reputed English newspaper and as a communications consultant in the international development sector.
Miho Zlazli Miho is originally from Okinawa Island in the Ryukyus, Japan. She is in the writing up stage of their PhD thesis, which sheds light on unspoken voices of new speakers and other people in the context of language revitalization of Ryukyuan languages through (collaborative) autoethnography and ethnography. Miho changed the original action research plan of Master/Mentor-Apprentice language learning initiative (MAI-Ryukyus.com) to autoethnography due to the COVID-19 pandemic.