Manami Goto
PhD Candidate, The University of Exeter
April 2016
Research interests: Women in the Gulf/ material culture and history of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf.
Manami is a PhD candidate in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, and her main areas of interest are oral history, material culture, and rituals of women in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf. Her Masters thesis focused on the generational changes in traditional attire of Qatari women, which she explored from an anthropological perspective. She is currently writing her PhD research on the female face mask in the coastal cities of western Iran and the eastern Arabian Peninsula.
Wei Song
PhD Candidate, The University of Nottiingham
March 2016- April 2016
Research interests: Cultural studies of sport; gender studies; qualitative research methodologies.
Wei SONG is currently a PhD candidate at the School of International Communications, the University of Nottingham. Her research is on gender, class and sport. Her research spans interests in social theory, sports culture, cultural studies, and qualitative methodologies. She has lectured and tutored in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, Cultural Studies at the UAE University and the English Language in Heilongjiang Foreign Languages University and Harbin Normal University.
Zhenning Wang
PhD Candidate, The University of Nottingham
March 2016-April 2016
Research Interest: Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions-Patterns of Government's Intervention, Circumventions to Chinese Government's Regulations by FDI-Design of Transaction Structure, Trading Behaviours of Stock Market Makers, High Frequency Trading, and Content Analysis.
Her research covers transfer economics, corporate finance, asset pricing, with a more recent focus on content analysis on asset prices and trading strategies. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she was an lecturer and an assistant professor of international trade and finance at the university of Shanghai International Studies university and Yunnan University.Besides, she also has a lot of experience in giving lectures of Chinese economy and capital market for foreign MBAs, like UAB.
Erhan Akkas
PhD candidate, Durham University
January-December 2016
Research Interest: Economics, Islamic Economics and Finance, Political Economy, Political Economy of Development, Knowledge-based Economy, Financial Development, GCC Region.
Erhan has MA Degree in Global Political Economy from the Sussex University, UK; is currently pursuing his PhD in Islamic Economics and Finance at Durham University, UK
Kristin Eggeling
PhD candidate, University of St. Andrews
October 2015-February 2015.
Research Interests: Identity, Symbolism, Discourses and Power in International Relations; The Arab Gulf States, Central Asia.
Kristin’s research focuses on the nexus between state-identity construction, political legitimation and the pursuit of international recognition. Specifically, I am interested in how emerging states engage in different types of big events and projects to put their name 'onto the map' of international relations.
Martin Lestra
Phd candidate, European University Institute
January-February 2016
Research interests : Political Economy, Epistemic Communities, Arab Gulf States, Foreign Aid, Climate Change
Martin’s research focuses on understanding what conditions rentier states are more likely to engage in multilateral fora. In so doing, He develops a comparative study of the states of Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates and of their international cooperation on climate change and foreign aid.
Laura Frances Goffman
PhD Candidate, Georgetown University, Department of History
September 2015-May 2016
Research interest: Laura’s dissertation research focuses on the social and cultural history of medicine and public health in the twentieth-century Arabian Peninsula. Laura is interested in how different methods of caring for the residents of the region were institutionalized in tandem with the emergence of hospitals, clinics, and dispensaries as mandated spaces of public health, the points of intersection between “traditional” and “modern” medicine and practice, and the role of medical institutions and research in the modernization of the Arabian Peninsula.
F. Esra Cavusoglu
PhD candidate, Marmara University, Middle East Studies Institute
September 2015-May 2016
Research interest: International relations of the Middle East and particularly the Gulf
Esra is working on the UK and the Gulf States Relations
Erick Viramontes
PhD candidate, Australian National University
September-December 2015
Research interest: Critical approaches to International Relations and Middle East politics
Erick Conducts research on the topic of his Ph.D. dissertation, which revolves around middle-power theory and Qatar's foreign relations