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Taichi is researching compositional approaches that integrate Japanese musical aesthetics into western music.

Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Minority Languages, Rock and Metal, Widening Participation, Ableism in Music.

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.

Helen is a PhD student at the School of Arts at SOAS.

Southeast Asian art, history of archaeology, knowledge production, colonial collecting, restitution, historiography of Indonesia.

Dr Ivy Yi Yan Chan is the co-convenor of the Arts of China module at the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art.

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

Phyllis Lau-Casson is a co-convenor of the Arts of Southeast Asia module of the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art.

Kexin Ma is a PhD candidate from the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS.

Art history, Southeast Asian studies, Curatorial studies, Postcolonial studies

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.

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

Katayoun Shahandeh is a lecturer in Museum Studies and co-convenor of the PG Diploma module “Analysing and Exploring the Museum”.

Mariana’s research is focused on the relationship between portraiture and notions of reality or zhen which circulated during this period. It also addresses issues of gender in relation to the portrayal and self-portrayal of women during early modern China.

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.

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.

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.