Senior Research Fellows

Senior Research Fellow 
Research keywords: Asia, media, news analyses

Research keywords: Colonial Office records; displaced archives; regulation of free labour.

Research keywords: Civil Rights, Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Culture, Globalization & Development, Human rights, International Law

Research keywords: Transnational Education in the Commonwealth; Commonwealth values; interdisciplinary learning and teaching in higher education.

Research keywords: Nationalism; religion and politics; contemporary history; electoral politics; development; international relations

Research keywords: Indigenous Caribbean musical traditions; Carnivals (and carnivalesque) in the West Indies, and their association with Africa, Europe and the

Research keywords: Media policy and law in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Research keywords: Migration, commerce and cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean; the Malay and Portuguese diasporas; the history of African migration eastwards

Research keywords: Black British history; Africans in Britain; slavery and the slave trade

Research keywords:Social and political history of the Caribbean; migration; intellectual history of the Caribbean

Research keywords: Human Rights and climate change; law in the context of society, with particular focus on areas such as human rights

Research keywords: Social policy in Barbados; sustainable development

Research keywords: Sri Lanka; media and broadcasting; media freedom

Research keywords: Financial services; livelihoods; migration; education.

Research keywords: History of imperialism; Christian missionary activity; the Black diaspora, decolonisation and post-colonial relationships; the United Kingdom

Research keywords: Politics, development and state-society relations in less developed countries; contemporary South Asia (especially India); decentralisation;

Research keywords: Black British history; history of black people in Early Modern Britain; the life of John Blanke

Civil Rights, Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Globalization & Development, History, Human rights, International

Research interests: post-war Commonwealth, apartheid in South Africa, democracy, elections and the Commonwealth’s fundamental values.

Research keywords: Southern Africa, migration, defence

Research keywords: Skills gap, Post Covid skills, digitization.

Research keywords: migration issues, gender, environmental justice, drones, genocide, enforced disappearances, music and human rights.

Research keywords: The history of peoples of African origins in the UK since the Roman period; Black political activism from the late 19th century

Research keywords: Southern Africa; Economic Development challenges

Research keywords: Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan; security, development and human rights; governance; Sri Lankan domestic politics

Research keywords: Politics of conservation; human-wildlife conflict and coexistence; radio propaganda in apartheid South Africa.

Research keywords: Global communication; Media.
Recent publication as editor: BRICS Media: Reshaping the Global Communication Order?

Research keywords: British and French foreign policy in Africa; the contemporary Commonwealth and multilateral diplomacy

Research keywords: The Commonwealth and museology; Commonwealth and imperial history; sustainable fisheries; Commonwealth blue economy

Research keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; espionage and intelligence

Research interests: Democracy, Public Sector Decentralisation & Good Governance

Research keywords: postcolonial security; Britain and France in West Africa; decolonisation and the Cold War; colonial power transfer