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Our people are the most important thing about our subject area. It takes a team of academics, professional services colleagues and PhD students working together to deliver our teaching, carry out our research and keep the department running. Together, they form a supportive community covering a range of professional expertise. You can search by name or role here, or browse below.

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Dr Francisca A. Adom-Opare

Research Fellow

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Data & Digital
  • Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
  • Global health policy
  • Health & Well-being
  • Health inequalities, disability and older people
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Methods
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Mr Soehail Ali

Doctoral Candidate in International Development

  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Governance & Democracy
  • International development
  • Work & Economy
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Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar

Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

  • Cities
  • Data & Digital
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • International Political Economy Research Group
  • Not just energy futures
  • Science, technology and innovation
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Studies of information and communication technology
  • Work & Economy
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Dr Gerhard Anders

Senior Lecturer in African Studies & International Development

  • Criminal justice
  • Governance & Democracy
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Public anthropology
  • Transitional Justice
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Professor Barbara Bompani

CAS Honorary Fellow

  • International development
  • Religion and public action
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Myriam S. Bousbia

Subject Academic Support Officer - Centre of African Studies
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Dr Andrew Bowman

Senior Lecturer, Africa & International Development

  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Work & Economy
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Molly Brooks

PhD Title: Regenerating Mental Health: Exploring the impact of the urban environment on the mental health of young people in Glasgow, UK

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Health & Well-being
  • Health inequalities, disability and older people
  • International development
  • Mental health and wellbeing
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Professor Deborah Bryceson

Honorary Professor

  • International development
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
  • Work & Economy
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Jay Bharat Choudhari

PhD Researcher

  • Digital sociology
  • International development
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • South Asian studies
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Dr Kathy Dodworth

Honorary Fellow

  • Global health policy
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International Development Cluster
  • Methods
  • Politics and political violence
  • Social studies of biology and medicine
  • Work & Economy
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Kevin Donovan

Senior Lecturer, African Studies & International Development

  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
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Dr Tosin Durodola

Tutor and Guest Lecturer

  • Culture
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
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Dr Maggie Dwyer

Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

  • Governance & Democracy
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Politics and political violence
  • Transitional Justice
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Esther Egele-Godswill

Tutor and PhD student

  • Environment and energy
  • Methods
  • Politics and political violence
  • Technology and material culture
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Jean-Benoit Falisse

Co-Director, Centre of African Studies. Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

  • Criminal justice
  • Global health policy
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
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Hazel Gray

Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
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Dr Akin Iwilade

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in African Studies

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Cities
  • Criminal justice
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • Kinship, bodies and relatedness
  • Politics and political violence
  • Public anthropology
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George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane

Co-Director, Centre of African Studies. Senior Lecturer in African Studies
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Amer Khushman

PhD Student

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • Middle East Research Group
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
  • Work & Economy
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Professor Emeritus Kenneth King

Professor Emeritus
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Dr Simeon Koroma

Lecturer in African Studies and International Development
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Francesco S. Longo

PhD Student
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Albert Mkony

Senior Tutor and Researcher
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Professor Sonwabile Mnwana

Honorary Fellow

  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Governance & Democracy
  • International development
  • Methods
  • Politics and political violence
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Dr Thomas Molony

Senior Lecturer in African Studies

  • Data & Digital
  • Elections, public opinion and parties
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Health & Well-being
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • International Political Economy Research Group
  • Methods
  • Politics and political violence
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Francesco Moze

PhD Student
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Jose-Maria Munoz

Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Public anthropology
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Thabani Mutambasere

Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • Religion and public action
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Professor Paul Nugent

Professor of Comparative African History (History, Classics and Archaeology/Centre of African Studies)

  • Cities
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Culture
  • Elections, public opinion and parties
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
  • Science, technology and innovation
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Grace O'Donovan

PhD student

  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • International Political Economy Research Group
  • Political Theory Research Group
  • Politics and political violence
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • Work & Economy
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Dr Cyril Obi

Honorary Fellow

  • Migration and experiences of displacement
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Dr Nelson Oppong

Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

  • Energy & Sustainability
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Governance & Democracy
  • International development
  • International Political Economy Research Group
  • International Relations Research Group
  • Not just energy futures
  • Politics and political violence
  • Work & Economy
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Dr Silvia Pergetti

Research Associate

  • Data & Digital
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • Not just energy futures
  • Science, technology and innovation
  • Technology and material culture
  • Work & Economy
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Lorraine Porteous

Honorary Fellow
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One Pusumane

PhD student

  • Cities
  • Criminal justice
  • Culture
  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Governance & Democracy
  • International development
  • International Political Economy Research Group
  • International Relations Research Group
  • Intimacy
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
  • Nationalism and political action
  • Politics and political violence
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • Work & Economy
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Dr Ian Russell

Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Methods
  • Politics and political violence
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • Science, knowledge and policy
Albert Sharra

Dr Albert E Sharra

Honorary Fellow

  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Governance of welfare states
  • International development
  • Methods
  • Politics and political violence
  • Science, technology and innovation
  • Technology and material culture
  • Transitional Justice
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Professor Sam Spiegel

Professor and Chair of Global Studies and International Development
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Jo Vearey

Associate Professor at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand
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Ruizhe Wang

PhD Student

  • International development
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Professor Emeritus Marc Wuyts

Honorary Professor

  • International development
  • International Political Economy Research Group
  • Methods