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Gulzat Botoeva and Sofya du Boulay
Gulzat Botoeva is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Swansea.
Sofya du Boula is a Political Scientist and a Senior Lecturer at the International Alatoo University.
Read their article: ‘USTA Mentorship Programme: Empowering Central Asian Researchers’
Saba Khan
Saba Khan is a visual artist whose multimedia works traffic in the language of memorial, monument and expeditions around water bodies. She founded an artist-run-space Murree Museum Artist Residency, the collective Pak Khawateen Painting Club, taught at the National College of Arts, Lahore and is now an Associate Lecturer at Associate Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art.
Read her article: ‘End of the Indus: An Artistic Exploration of a Decaying Delta’
Noha Atef
Noha Atef is a media scholar, educator, and consultant from Egypt. After a journalism career, she transitioned to research, focusing on digital humanities and media studies. Noha is currently a Lecturer at the University of Galway in Ireland.
Silas Udenze
Silas Udenze is a scholar activist from Enugu State, Nigeria and an interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher at the Open University of Catalunya. His research interests cut across social movements, digital activism and memory, digital ethnography, African studies, and qualitative methods.
Read his article: ‘Digital Activism and Memory at ECREA 2024’
Umtul Aleem Kokab
Umtul Aleem Kokab is a final year doctoral candidate at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, Her research project engages with the conceptual framework of performance by placing it in the everyday register of the Ahmadi community (a Muslim minority sect excommunicated by the global Islamic community for their religious beliefs) in India.
Read her article: ‘Understanding the Everyday Experiences of the Ahmadi Community‘
Rajashri Kamat
Rajashri Kamat is a fourth-year undergraduate law student from Mumbai in India. Her research interests lie in bridging the gap between the Global South and the various realms of customary international law as well as understanding how imperialism and colonialism of the past and present have destabilised areas of the Global South.
Read her article: ‘Understanding the Everyday Experiences of the Ahmadi Community‘
Laila Sumpton
Poet, editor, performer and educator, Laila Sumpton, works on creative writing projects that explore human rights issues. She co-founded the arts and education organisation Poetry Vs Colonialism and is an associate artist with intergenerational charity Magic Me.
Read her article: ‘Living in Limbo – Platforming Refugee Stories‘
Bélén Villegas Plá
Bélén did her PhD at the University of York (UK) analysing distributive policies in Latin America from a dependent development perspective. She is currently a researcher and lecturer at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Read her article: ‘How does Dependency Theory intersect with Feminist Economics?‘
Ching-Chang Chen and Astrid H.M. Nordin
Ching-Chang Chen is Professor of the Department of Global Studies and Director of the Global Affairs Research Centre, both at Ryukoku University, Japan. He is a co-author of China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships (Routledge, 2019).
Astrid H. M. Nordin holds the Lau Chair of Chinese International Relations at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK. She is the author of the monograph China’s International Relations and Harmonious World (Routledge, 2016).
Read their article: ‘Political healing in East Asian International Relations: A TWQ Special Issue’
Ginbert Permejo Cuaton
Ginbert Permejo Cuaton examines social policy issues on disasters, displacements, and climate actions in Southeast Asia, specialising in the Philippines. He is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at Lingnan University of Hong Kong.
Read his article: ‘Exploring Resettlement in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation’
Tatiana Sanchez Parra and Sanne Weber
Tatiana Sanchez Parra is currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her first book, Born of War in Colombia: Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence, was published by Rutgers University Press in the spring of 2024.
Sanne Weber is Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her book Gender and Citizenship in Transitional Justice: Everyday Experiences of Reparation and Reintegration in Colombia was published in June 2023 with Bristol University Press.
Read their article: ‘New TWQ Special Issue Addresses Gender-based Violence in Latin America’
Li Li
Li Li is an Associate Professor, Global Agriculture (CIDGA)/China Institute for SSC in Agriculture (CISSA) at the China Agricultural University (CAU) and a China-US Fulbright Scholar (2011-2012). Since 2023, Li is also working as a Research Fellow, at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the the U.K.
Read her article: ‘How is China’s South-South Cooperation addressing SDGs? Insights from Li Li‘