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Senior Research Fellows

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Syed Badrul Ahsan

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

Dr Mandy Banton

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

Dr Sofia Chanda-Gool

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Civil Rights, Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration

Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan

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

Dr James Chiriyankandath

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

Dr John Cowley

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

Dr William Crawley

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

Professor Shihan de Silva

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

Ms Oku Ekpenyon

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

Dr Farah Faizal

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Small Island Developing States - democracy, sustainability and human rights, Climate Education, Feminist Foreign Policy and SIDS, Women

Dr Peter Fraser

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

Professor Paul Havemann

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

Mr Guy Hewitt

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Social policy in Barbados; sustainable development

Ms Frederica Jansz

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

Dr Howard Jones

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

Dr Miranda Kaufmann

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Black British History, History of Enslavement, Caribbean History, African History, Women's History, Colonial History

Professor David Killingray

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

Professor James Manor

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

Mr Michael Ohajuru

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

Professor Henning Melber

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Civil Rights, Colonies & Colonisation, emigration & immigration, Classes, Races, Globalisation & Development, History, Human rights

Dr Stuart Mole

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

Mr Martin Plaut

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Southern Africa, migration, defence

Dr Robert Robertson

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

Professor Dr Jeremy Julian Sarkin

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

Dr Mark Simpson

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Southern Africa; Economic Development challenges

Professor Chris Smith

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

Dr Donald L Sparks

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: blue economy, regional economic development, sub-Saharan Africa, western Indian Ocean, globalisation

Professor Daya Thussu

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Global communication; Media.

Dr Melanie Torrent

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

Dr Nicholas Watts

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

Dr Susan Williams

Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; espionage and intelligence

Dr Carl Wright

Senior Research Fellow
Research interests: Democracy, Public Sector Decentralisation & Good Governance

Professor Marco Wyss

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