2025

Curriculum

• 2 June - Welcome

• 9 June - Research Design

• 16 June - Research Question

• 23 June - Using Research Tools

•  30 June - Annotated Bibliography

• 7 July - Academic Writing

• 14 July - Literature Review

• 21 July - Research Methods

• 28 July - Academia as a Field

• 4 August - Publication

Speakers:

• Princess Banda PhD, University of Oxford

• Avery Benton, Founder, Access Academia

• Faria Bibi, BSc Economics and Politics, Lahore University of Management Sciences

• Lesley Cheung, Director of Outreach and Marketing, Access Academia

• Meera Chopra, Medicine, University of Toronto

• Nik Dryden-Diaz, History, University of Cambridge

• Ash Fowkes-Gajan, History, University of Warwick

• Aisha Remtulla, BA History, King's College London

• Parvathy Salil PhD, Teesside University 

• Mariam Tadevosyan, Social Sciences Scholar, King's College London / University of Edinburgh

🎓 Senior Fellows

• Max Ferrer, PhD History, King's College London

• Adaiah Hudgins-Lopez, PhD Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

• Seblewongel Kassa, PhD Law, Swansea University

• Hannah King, Professional Doctorate in Health, University of Central Lancashire

• Karolin Rippich, PhD Human Development, Law and Government, Dublin City University

• Saira Grace Saju, PhD International Relations, St Aloysius

• Swakshadip Sarkar, PhD Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington

• Insha Qayoom Shah, PhD English Literature, University of Kashmir

• Kunal Nath Shahdeo, PhD Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

📚 Fellows

💡 Projects

Faria Bibi, BSc Economics and Politics, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Aesthetics of Authority: Discipline and the Sensory Regimes of Bureaucracy in Postcolonial Pakistan

Meera Chopra, Medicine, University of Toronto

A scoping review of barriers to dementia care among South Asians living in Western countries

Nik Dryden-Diaz, History, University of Cambridge

Mediated Witness: Examining Community Memory Practices and Tourism in Post-Genocide Guatemala

Ash Fowkes-Gajan, History, University of Warwick

Integration or Isolation: Maghreb communities in France and the incompatible nature of multiculturalism and assimilation in the twenty-first century

Scheherazade Gul, Anthropology and Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

How is the "spectacle of liberation" marketed through neoliberal feminist narratives around online sex work, empowerment, and digital entrepreneurship?

Vincent Ebuka Kosisochukwu, BSc Cooperative Economics and Management, Nnamdi Azikiwe University

The Role of Post-Conflict Initiatives on Women's Economic Development Outcomes

Manam Mahmood, MBChB Medicine, University of Manchester

The Impact of Colonialism on Global Health in South Asia

Josefina Azucena de Jesús Fuentes Monsalve, International Studies, Universidad de Chile

Human Rights Discourses as Instruments of Soft Power Diplomacy: A Comparative Study of Liberal Democracies in the Global South

Makgethwa Phala, BCom Business Management, University of Johannesburg

Economic and Social Impacts of Apartheid Spatial Planning on Youth in Soweto

Aisha Remtulla, BA History, King's College London

After Kampala: Intersectional Inequalities and the Uneven Assimilation of Ugandan-Asians in Britain

Sihan Yang, BA Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science

The Quiet Politics of Belonging: Horizon of Activism in Illiberal Democratic Hungary