
Dr Mandy Banton
Research keywords: Colonial Office records; displaced archives; regulation of free labour.
Research keywords: Colonial Office records; displaced archives; regulation of free labour.
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 Indigenous peoples' rights, human righ
Research keywords: Social policy in Barbados; sustainable development
Research keywords: British Empire, especially the end of empire; the Eastern Mediterranean; Cyprus; the role of the Mediterranean in British culture and society
Research keywords: Black British History; Africa; Africans; Tudor, Stuart and Georgian history; Slavery; Early Modern; Social History; Caribbean; Atlantic
Research keywords: History of imperialism; Christian missionary activity; the Black diaspora, decolonisation and post-colonial relationships; the United Kingdom
Research keywords: The Westminster System in the UK and Commonwealth countries; decolonisation; constitutional politics and history; monarchy
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
Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Media policy and law in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Senior Research Fellow
Research keywords: Southern Africa, migration, defence
Recent publication: Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s Most Repressiive
Research keywords: The Commonwealth; the politics of small states; small states and international institutions
Research keywords: critical theory (especially postcolonialism); contemporary Arab and South Asia literatures; concepts of exile and diaspora
Research keywords: The history of peoples of African origins in the UK since the Roman period; Black political activism from the late 19th century; Pan-Africani
Research keywords: British colonial policing; internationalisation of UK policing systems; postcolonial policing encounters in fragile and conflict-affected sta
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: Historical records; information management, especially of national evidence bases; development; anti-corruption and transparency
Research keywords: Contemporary Canada; Arctic politics; Inuit communities; indigenous-settler relations; feminism in Canada; multiculturalism in Canada
Research keywords: British and French foreign policy in Africa; the contemporary Commonwealth and multilateral diplomacy; connected history of the ends of empir
Research keywords: British intelligence; the end of the British empire in Africa; the British secret state in Africa.
Research keywords: The Commonwealth and museology; Commonwealth and imperial history; sustainable fisheries; Commonwealth blue economy
Research keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; espionage and intelligence; the history of the United Nations; British, French and Lusophone colonialism and neocoloniali
Research keywords: African politics and history; working-class struggle and revolutionary movements; African political thinkers and activists; the growth of dec