People
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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Francisca Anita Adom-Opare
PhD Candidate
- Data & Digital
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Methods

Soehail Ali
Doctoral Candidate in International Development (PhD Student)
- Governance & Democracy
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- International Political Economy Research Group
- Transitional Justice
- Work & Economy

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
Dr Gerhard Anders
Senior Lecturer in African Studies & International Development
- Criminal justice
- Governance & Democracy
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Public anthropology
- Transitional Justice

Professor Barbara Bompani
CAS Honorary Fellow
- International development
- Religion and public action

Myriam S. Bousbia
Subject Academic Support Officer - Centre of African Studies

Dr Andrew Bowman
Senior Lecturer, Africa & International Development
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Work & Economy
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

Professor Deborah Bryceson
Honorary Professor
- International development
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Work & Economy

Kevin Donovan
Senior Lecturer, African Studies & International Development
- International development
- International Development Cluster

Tosin Durodola
Tutor and PhD Candidate
- Culture
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Migration and experiences of displacement

Dr Maggie Dwyer
Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development
- Governance & Democracy
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Politics and political violence
- Transitional Justice

Esther Egele-Godswill
Tutor and PhD student
- Environment and energy
- Methods
- Politics and political violence
- Technology and material culture

Jean-Benoit Falisse
Co-Director, Centre of African Studies. Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development
- Criminal justice
- Data & Digital
- Global health policy
- Governance & Democracy
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19

Hazel Gray
Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development
- International development
- International Development Cluster

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

George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane
Co-Director, Centre of African Studies. Senior Lecturer in African Studies
Amer Khushman
PhD Student
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Middle East Research Group
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Work & Economy

Professor Emeritus Kenneth King
Professor Emeritus

Dr Simeon Koroma
Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

Albert Mkony
Senior Tutor and Researcher

Professor Sonwabile Mnwana
Honorary Fellow
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Governance & Democracy
- International development
- Methods
- Politics and political violence

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

Francesco Moze
PhD Student

Jose-Maria Munoz
Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Public anthropology

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

Professor Paul Nugent
Professor of Comparative African History (History, Classics and Archaeology); Research Director in History
- Cities
- Cultural Heritage
- Culture
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Governance & Democracy
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Identities & Inequalities
- Science, technology and innovation

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

Dr Cyril Obi
Honorary Fellow
- Migration and experiences of displacement

Dr Nelson Oppong
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

Lorraine Porteous
Honorary Fellow

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
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

Dr Albert Sharra
Research Fellow
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Governance & Democracy
- Governance of welfare states
- Identities & Inequalities
- Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- Methods
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence

Sam Spiegel
Senior Lecturer in International Development

Jo Vearey
Associate Professor at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand

Ruizhe Wang
PhD Student
- International development

Professor Emeritus Marc Wuyts
Honorary Professor
- International development
- International Political Economy Research Group
- Methods