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Helena Aida Voorhuis
Helena Aida Voorhuis is a Master’s student in Engineering and Policy Analysis at TU Delft, focusing on just socio-technical transitions and climate governance. She holds an Honours BSc in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University, where she specialised in policy and economics and conducted research on participatory governance in decentralised solar energy transitions in rural Nigeria. Helena serves as Chair of International Affairs at Youth for Climate Netherlands and was a lead organiser of the Dutch Local Conference of Youth (LCOY), as well as a member of the youth constituency of the UNFCCC, YOUNGO. Her work bridges youth governance, energy transitions, and Global South climate policy.
Read her article: When the Smoke Clears: Youth, Justice and Global South Leadership at COP30
Andrew F. Cooper, Emel Parlar Dal and Samiratou Dipama
Andrew F. Cooper is University Research Chair, Department of Political Science, and Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, Canada. From 2004 to 2010 he was Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
Emel Parlar Dal is full professor at Marmara University’s Department of International Relations. She received her BA from Galatasaray University in 2001, her MA degrees respectively from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2002) and Paris 3 Nouvelle Sorbonne Universities (2003)
Samiratou Dipama is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Thomas Sankara Univerdity (Burkina Faso). She holds a PhD student in EU Politics and International Relations at Marmara University’s European Union Institute.
Read their article: A New TWQ Special Issue: Multilateralism and Global Institutions in a Fragmented World
Joshua Sarpong and Bezawit Alamirew Wube
Dr Joshua Sarpong is an Admissions Officer and higher education researcher at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His work explores policy, funding, governance, university autonomy, and university–industry collaboration, with a focus on how these forces shape decision-making and impact equity and access.
Bezawit Alamirew Wube is a professional staff member at the University of Auckland with an academic background in Computer and Electrical Engineering as well as Marketing Management. Her research interests focus on STEM education, particularly how education systems can be strengthened to foster innovation, inclusion and sustainable development in the Global South.
Read their article: Beyond Aid Dependency: Building Scientific Sovereignty in the Global South
Khalil Dahbi and Thiago Prates
Khalil Dahbi is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), contributing to the ‘World Order Narratives of the Global South’ project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). He earned his PhD from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, specialising in political sociology with a regional emphasis on the Maghreb. His research interests encompass social movements, contentious politics, political party dynamics, leftist politics, and the intersection of politics and technology.
Thiago Prates holds a PhD in history from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social History at the University of São Paulo (USP). His research interests encompass the history of the New Left in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Southern Cone; the intellectual history of Leftist movements; and the Cultural Cold War in Latin America and the Third World.
Read their article: Beyond Aid Dependency: Building Scientific Sovereignty in the Global South
Deniz Atama
Deniz Ataman grew up in a small, South-Western, touristic town in Turkey, named Fethiye. He studied Political Science and International Relations in Yeditepe University, and then a Master’s program in Yeditepe University in European Studies. In that program, he focused on various subjects; such as international politics theories, politics of conflicts, identity, socialisation, and diplomacy.
Read his article: Running Towards Peace, as it Seems to be Getting Distant
Kien Dang
Kien Dang is the Programme Coordinator of the Land Use Policy Analysis for Poverty Alleviation (LUPAPA) under Livelihood Sovereignty Alliance (LISO). She focuses on local initiatives in forest governance, empowerment and development for indigenous ethnic minority youths in eco-farming.
Read her article: The Role of Edible Forest Foods in Vietnam’s Food Security
Khalil Dahbi and Thiago Prates
Khalil Dahbi is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), contributing to the ‘World Order Narratives of the Global South’ project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). He earned his PhD from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, specialising in political sociology with a regional emphasis on the Maghreb. His research interests encompass social movements, contentious politics, political party dynamics, leftist politics, and the intersection of politics and technology.
Thiago Prates holds a PhD in history from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social History at the University of São Paulo (USP). His research interests encompass the history of the New Left in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Southern Cone; the intellectual history of Leftist movements; and the Cultural Cold War in Latin America and the Third World.
Read their article: Third World Radicals: A New SI from TWQ
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of California Irvine. He earned his Bachelor’s in International Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and a MA in Political Science at UC Irvine. Mohammad aspires to place himself at the crossroads of academia, journalism, and policy. His research interests include migration and citizenship studies, nationalism and populism, social movements, and social media, with regional foci on South Asia and the Gulf.
Read his article: Researching Extremism & Counterterrorism: A PhD Scholar’s Reflections on Self-Care
George Tsitati
George Tsitati is a climate researcher, storyteller, and photographer whose work sits at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge, weather and climate information services, climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and anticipatory action. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where his research investigates how pastoralist and agropastoralist communities in Kenya’s drylands anticipate and respond to climate-accelerated shocks.
Read his article: When the Intestines Speak: Indigenous Climate Forecasting in the Horn of Africa
Saba Naomi Attfield
Saba is a postgraduate in Global Environment and Climate Change Law from the University of Edinburgh Law School, and an undergraduate in Politics, Philosophy, and Law from the University of Warwick. Saba was a student climate activist at the University of Edinburgh with the People & Planet network, and also developed research materials for Pro Public (Friends of the Earth Nepal) a forum for the protection of public interest in Kathmandu, Nepal. Learn more about her on LinkedIn, and contact her for further details on her research through her email.
Read her article: The Decolonisation of Niger Delta Oil Pollution Cases
Queenie Agdalipe
Queenie Agdalipe (she/her) is an early-career ocean professional from the Philippines. A fisheries graduate of the University of the Philippines, she founded CurrentShift — a youth-led nonprofit that bridges traditional knowledge and scientific data to uplift coastal and fisherfolk communities and shift their current realities into a more sustainable, and better future where fisheries is more empowered alongside its community. She co-convenes People Against False Solutions and Green Empowered Movement which are local initiatives that fight against waste-to-energy incineration in the country. She is currently the Partnerships and Grants Officer of Mangrove Matters PH and a member of the East Asian- Australasian Flyway Partnership – Youth Task Force.
Read her article: Our Ocean, Our Future: A Wave of Reflections from the East Asian Seas Congress 2024
Celestina Atom
Celestina Atom is a Doctoral Researcher in Politics and International Relations at Teesside University in the UK. Her work focuses on conflict management, peacebuilding, and the reintegration of ex-combatants in Nigeria. She specialises in interpretative phenomenological analysis, drawing on extensive fieldwork in high-risk areas. Celestina holds an MA in Diplomacy, Law, and Global Change from Coventry University and a First Class BSc in International Relations from Landmark University. Her teaching experience includes courses on diplomacy, peacekeeping, and armed conflict. She has presented at academic conferences and has forthcoming publications on reintegration strategies in Africa.
Read her article: Rebuilding After Conflict: Highlights from BISA 2025
Jhader Cerqueira do Carmo and Vinícius Venancio
Jhader Cerqueira do Carmo is a PhD candidate in International Relations at Universidade de Brasília (Brazil). He holds an MSc in International Relations (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil) and a Bachelor degree in Foreign Languages Applied to International Negotiations (Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Brazil).
Vinícius Venancio holds a PhD (2024) in Social Anthropology from the University of Brasília. He is currently a substitute professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Federal University of Goiás (FCS/UFG). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in 2024. His current research focuses on racial vernaculars and female migration between Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau.
Read their article: Life Experience of Translation as an Antiracist Collective Policy
Marcos Scauso
Marcos Scauso is a scholar-activist whose work focuses on decolonial thought, particularly in relation to Latin America. His academic and activist work is rooted in collaboration with Indigenous movements, examining the intersections of race, patriarchy, sexuality, and colonial legacies—especially as they shape U.S. foreign policy. Recently appointed as an Academic Editor at Third World Quarterly, Marcos is championing a new Research Notes format to amplify Global South scholarship. In this short Q&A, he shares the vision behind these transformative short-form pieces.
Read his article: Introducing TWQ Research Notes: Sparking New Conversations in Global South Studies
Abel Polese and Joseph P. Helou
Abel Polese is a researcher, trainer, writer, manager and fundraiser. He is the author of “The SCOPUS Diaries and the (il)logics of Academic Survival: A Short Guide to Design Your Own Strategy and Survive Bibliometrics, Conferences, and Unreal Expectations in Academia”, a reflection on academic life, research careers and the choices and obstacles young scholars face at the beginning of their career. He also writes blogs on science management such as “The unsustainability of the “pay-as-you-go” publishing model”. Abel is an Associate Professor of informality in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. His main research focus is on informal governance, with regional specialisation in Eurasia.
Joseph P. Helou is assistant professor of Department of Political and International Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU). He has previously held lecturer positions at LAU and other academic institutions where he taught globalization, international political economy, the politics of the global south and Middle East politics, among others. Helou’s research focuses on several political-economic and governance related fields. He is interested in governance matters, broadly construed. His research investigates state governance and informal governance in developing countries.
Read their Special Issue: The Informality of Crisis Situations – a TWQ Special Issue
Gustavo de Carvalho
Gustavo de Carvalho is a Senior Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand. His research examines the Global South agency in contemporary international politics. His participation at ISA 2025 was made possible through institutional support from SAIIA and a conference grant from the Global Souths Colloquium Fund.
Read his article: Global IR’s Unfinished Revolution: Empire of Theory, Periphery of Practice
Saltanat Kydyralieva Kaplan
Dr. Saltanat Kydyralieva Kaplan is a postdoctoral researcher specialising in history and political psychology, as well as a final-year clinical psychology student at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis. Her research interests span multiple disciplines, including the psychology of political behaviour, the psychoanalytic analysis of posters, mental health literacy, and psychological barriers to seeking professional help. As an intern psychologist, Saltanat adopts a psychoanalytic approach while incorporating cognitive-behavioural therapy and eclectic therapy techniques into her practice. She is also a columnist for Manas TV in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and a guest contributor to various magazines in Istanbul, Türkiye.
Read her article: Experienced by Many: Mental Health Struggles During my PhD
Camila Andrade
Dr. Camila Andrade is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg. She is conducting postdoctoral research in Political Science and International Relations at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB – Brazil). Camila earned her PhD in Political Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS – Brazil), with part of the Doctorate at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR – Argentina); an MS in International Relations at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC – Brazil), with field research in Rwanda. She created @camilaafrika (Instagram, YouTube) a community for democratising of African Studies. Her main research interests are African International Politics, Global South Studies and Black Feminisms.
Read her article: Navigating Academia from the Margins: An Afro-Latin Brazilian Woman’s Journey
Yue Zhou (Joe) Lin
Dr Yue Zhou (Joe) Lin is a Higher Education Academy Fellow (FHEA) and a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol. Lin has led the Political Economy of China (BSc unit) and China’s International Relations (MSc unit). Before Bristol, Lin lectured across the Departments of European & International Studies (EIS) and Political Economy (PE) at King’s College London. In February 2019, Lin passed his PhD in International Political Economy (IPE) with no correction. During his PhD, Lin delivered seminars on qualitative research methods (case study and ethnography) at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Read his article: Does China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI) Provide the Conditions for Solidarity and Delinking?
Frank Okyere Osei
Frank Okyere Osei is a researcher, educator, and peacebuilding practitioner with nearly two decades of experience in atrocity prevention and peacebuilding in fragile contexts. A doctoral student at Binghamton University and Senior Fellow at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Ghana, his work focuses on bridging global norms like the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) with local implementation strategies, particularly in Africa.
Read her article: 20 Years of R2P: Moral Responsibility through an African Lens
Kividi Koralage
Kividi Koralage is a graduate of Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Sri Lanka, specialising in International Business. She is currently pursuing an LLB and an International Relations programme at Aberystwyth University in the UK. A CIMA passed finalist and an alumna of the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS), her academic and professional journey is driven by a deep interest in development, law, and global economic systems.
Read her article: From Colonialism to COVID-19: Why Global Health Remains Unequal
Eve Kanram
Eve is the journals manager at Pluto Journals, working to publish our variety of social science journals and manage their promotion. Eve also coordinates projects at the Pluto Educational Trust.
Read her article: Exploring the Pluto Journals Collection with Eve Kanram
Dr. Zarnigor Khayat
Dr. Zarnigor Khayat is a postdoctoral researcher in Computational Linguistics and an adjunct associate professor at Webster University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She is passionate about self-identity of marginalised groups, education, cultural studies, and empowering women through academic and professional development.
Zarnigor is an alumni of U.S. Embassy-sponsored self-defence camp for women and girls in Tashkent and a mentee in the USTA mentorship program.
Read her article: Juggling Motherhood, Mental Health, and my PhD
Mohammad Yaghi, Hanaa Almoaibed and Silvia Colombo
Mohammad Yaghi is a researcher with expertise in Middle East politics and the internal and foreign relations of the Gulf States. His research covers Palestinian political institutions, social and Islamic movements, sectarianism in Arab media, and the politics of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East.
Hanaa Almoaibed is a scholar specialising in education, youth and women’s issues in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, with research interests in work, education/skills and sustainability. She is active in the think tank sector as Consulting Fellow at Chatham House in London and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Silvia Colombo is a researcher and Faculty Advisor in the Research Division of the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome. She is also Associate Fellow at the International Affairs Institute (IAI), where she formerly led the Mediterranean and Middle East Programme. Her research focuses on contemporary politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), EU and US foreign policies, and NATO’s role in the region’s conflicts.
Read their article: Foreign Aid of Gulf States – Continuity and Change: a TWQ Special Issue
Bethlehem Attfield
Bethlehem is a PhD candidate at Birmingham University in the Department of Modern Languages, researching the translation of African-language literature. Her translation of an Amharic novel written by Yismake Worku; The Lost Spell, was published by Henningham Family Press in March 2022, and was shortlisted for 2022 TA First Translation Prize by Society of Authors.
Read her article: Translating African Realities with Indigenous Perspectives and Digital Archives
Nancy Owusuaa
Nancy Owusuaa is a final-year PhD candidate at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Her research investigates the reimagining and utilisation of Akan Adinkra symbols in digital spaces within contemporary Ghana and beyond, with a focus on how young people integrate these symbols into their daily communication through technology.
Read her article: ‘Navigating Adinkra’s Evolution in the Digital Age: A PhD’s Perspective‘
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 U.K.
Read her article: ‘How is China’s South-South Cooperation addressing SDGs? Insights from Li Li‘