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PGR students

Name	School	Areas of expertise
Rehab Alotaibi	School of Sociology and Social Policy	social media and its impact on social change on women's rights in Saudi society
Gabriela Arriagada Bruneau	School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science	decolonisation, feminism, and racism
Kheira Arrouche	School of Sociology and Social Policy	reflexive migration studies, im-mobility processes, migration facilitation, trans-nationalism, irregular migration, race and migration
Iman Awi	School of Sociology and Social Policy	race and ethnicity, access to Higher Education, inclusive education, intersectionality, critical race theory
Shirley Barrett	School of Sociology and Social Policy	ethnic minorities in Britain, breaking down stereotypes, equality and diversity, strategies of engagement; Gypsy, Traveller, Romany and Roma communities and positive relationship development with sedentary community
Sreya Datta	School of English	African literature, Indian Ocean studies, critical theory, race and decolonisation
Enze He	School of Sociology and Social Policy	Chinese studies, national identity, ethnicity and migration
Sylvia Ikomi	School of Education	the educational attainment of children in local authority care, adultification, misogynoir
Huang Jinru	School of Politics and International Studies	ethnic assimilation, national identification, Islamophobia, Muslim, Muslim in China
Dorota Kordecka	School of Sociology and Social Policy	globalisation, transnationalism, cohesion, integration, social identity, cooperation, autonomy and self-organised systems
Ayse Rumeysa Kotan	School of Sociology and Social Policy	Critical Muslim Studies, education, decoloniality, colonialism, philosophy of education, pragmatism
Evie Lewis	School of English	migration, borders, refugees and asylum, postcolonial literature; decolonisation, multilingualism and translation
Johanna Loock	School of Sociology and Social Policy	paradoxes of citizenship, German integration politics, Islam politics, processes of racialisation, Islamophobia, Islam in Europe, secularism, (re)construction of national identity, subtle nationalism
Sameerah Mahmood	School of Politics and International Relations	forced migration of Iraqi Kurds, postcolonial theories, gender, politics of migration, refugee studies, asylum law
Mona Makinejad	School of Sociology and Social Policy	refugee studies, decoloniality, racism and ethnicity, migrant integration
Isla Paterson	School of Languages, Cultures and Societies	francophone literature and studies, transnationalism, gender
Sangeeta Rani	School of Education	intersections between gender, race, and belonging, culture, identity, and community
Ehsan Shahwahid	School of Sociology and Social Policy	Islam, Islamisation, Muslimness, Malaysia, Critical Muslim Studies
Zeraslasie Shiker	School of Geography	forced migration and diaspora transnational political activism
Ayesha Siddika	School of Sociology and Social Policy	refugee crisis, forced migration, humanitarian crisis
Aureja Stirbyte	School of Sociology and Social Policy and School of History	race, class, racialisation, migration, nationalism, fascism, white genocide, great replacement, Marxism, critiques of capitalism
Joyce Tsopo	School of Sociology and Social Policy	belonging, migration, diaspora, Zimbabwean diaspora in the UK
Tamanda Walker	School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science	intersection of race and religion, faith, spirituality, belief and theology and social life from decolonial perspective