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Edward Said Award 2025 winner at ISA: Ruoyu Li’s paper on nuclear free activism
Congratulations to Ruoyu Li for winning the Edward Said Award for the 2025 best graduate student paper awarded by the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association (ISA), sponsored by Third World Quarterly. The award highlights outstanding scholarship in global development studies, and includes a certificate presentation at the ISA Annual Convention and a…
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From Colonialism to COVID-19: Why Global Health Remains Unequal
Kividi Koralage, an independent researcher in international development and geopolitics examines how colonial legacies, economic models, and global health governance shape healthcare disparities.This blog post stems from Kividi’s research on global health inequalities as part of the global health politics session presented at the British International Studies Association’s (BISA) virtual conference in January 2025. She…
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Juggling Motherhood, Mental Health, and my PhD
Read our latest blog post by Zarnigor Khayat, a devoted mother, scientist, and lecturer at Webster University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Based on her personal experiences dealing with postpartum mental health, cultural expectations, and academic pressures, Zarnigor offers an open and honest insight into the delicate balance between family life, motherhood and pursuing her doctoral research.…
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Translating African Realities with Indigenous Perspectives and Digital Archives
By Bethlehem Attfield Bethlehem Attfield discusses her PhD research on Amharic literature, the silencing of African knowledge, and the potential of AI in preserving and promoting African languages and culture. In March 2024, I came across the call for papers for the African Studies Association of UK (ASAUK) conference which was to be held at…
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Navigating Adinkra’s Evolution in the Digital Age: A PhD’s Perspective
Nancy Owusuaa, a PhD candidate at the University of Ghana is researching the digital renaissance of Akan Adinkra Symbols. Her study explores how these traditional Ghanaian symbols are being reimagined and repurposed for modern media. She tells us how she gained a fresh perspective presenting her work to an international audience at the African Studies…
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Health Communication Insights from Egypt: Why doctor-influencers avoid academic citations
Noha Atef is a journalism lecturer, scholar, and trainer from Egypt, specialising in digital media and emerging forms of journalism. Her research focuses on digital communities and social media. In this short blog post, Noha discusses her recent work into Egyptian doctor-influencers vlogs and how to make health content more accessible. Noha is currently a…
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Digital Activism and Memory at ECREA 2024
Hear from Silas Udenze, a scholar activist from Enugu State, Nigeria and an interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher at the Open University of Catalunya. In this piece, Silas shares his research and insights from the 10th European Communication Research and Education Association. Which conference did you attend? I attended the 10th European Communication Research and Education Association…
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Understanding the Everyday Experiences of the Ahmadi Community
Umtul Aleem Kokab, a final year doctoral candidate at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, recently attended the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) annual conference. Here, she blogs about her experience at the conference and why it has been valuable to her work. I recently attended…
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No Country for Old Men: Digital Development and Accessibility in the Global South
In this blog post, Rajashri Kamat, a fourth-year undergraduate law student from Mumbai in India, discusses the digital divide in India and in other regions in the Global South. Unified Payment Interface (UPI) is an Indian smartphone technology, which allows individuals to make payments digitally within seconds. It is something that would have been inconceivable…
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Mirlan Bektursunov wins 2024’s Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize
Every year, Central Asian Survey awards The Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize to a junior scholar, who has published an outstanding article in the journal volume from the preceding calendar year. This year’s award recipient is Dr Mirlan Bektursunov, for his article ‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–24.…
