Taichi Imanishi Taichi is researching compositional approaches that integrate Japanese musical aesthetics into western music.
PhD researcher Georgette Nummelin Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Minority Languages, Rock and Metal, Widening Participation, Ableism in Music.
Tom Peterson Tom Peterson, School of Arts, Department of Music, Ethnomusicology. The Lyric in Lanka: Alternative Histories of Music through the Hugh Nevill Collection. Research interests: Ethnomusicology, Global Music History, Colonialism, South Asia, Sri Lanka.
Research Student Charlotte Schuitenmaker Charlotte Schuitenmaker, School of Arts (Music), Sounding First Nations Storytelling in Sydney, Australia. (Ethno)musicology, Indigenous Studies, Postcolonialism, Critical Race Theory
PhD researcher Panggah Ardiyansyah Southeast Asian art, history of archaeology, knowledge production, colonial collecting, restitution, historiography of Indonesia.
Yingbai Fu Yingbai is a doctoral researcher at SOAS in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology. Yingbai Fu, Is currently completing a thesis titled, Dressing up the Manchu Way: Visual Representations of Women’s Hair and Dress in China and Beyond, 1850s-1940s
Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr Shiori Hiraki History of art, history, visual and material culture in early modern Japan.
PhD researcher Vera Mey Art history, Southeast Asian studies, Curatorial studies, Postcolonial studies
PhD researcher Kasia Ploskonka Dr Ploskonka’s research interests over the last 15 years have developed between the intersection of power relations of contemporary art practitioners and the state specifically within the Central Asian region.
Elizabeth Reid The investigation focuses on change in the knowledge, representation and reception of Chinese art and the motivations of the British and Chinese people involved, including as lenders, dealers and collectors
Mr Kulamitra David Zukas I’m interested in what material remains reveal of the life of early Buddhists. I'm revealing networks of smaller hermitages and monastic rock-shelters in-between three major early rock-cut Buddhist monasteries.
Elaine Chung Prior to coming to SOAS, I have completed my undergraduate studies in Hong Kong and obtained a Master of Communications in South Korea.
Akiko Nagata I completed both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan). I have a degree in BA for Policy Studies, and MA for Sociology.
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.