Scholars and Fellows Network
The Stuart Hall Foundation is committed to providing opportunities for students and academics, pursuing themes resonant with the work of Professor Stuart Hall and that of the Foundation.
Acutely aware of the obstacles to achievement in higher education faced by young people from culturally diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds – evidenced by admissions data and the lack of diversity among academic staff – we are working in partnership with universities in the UK and internationally to continue Professor Stuart Hall’s life-long commitment to teaching.
Our network of current and past fellows and scholars have been developing research at the following institutions: Birkbeck, University of London; Ruhr-University Bochum; University of Cape Town; University of Central Lancashire; the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE); Technical University of Dortmund; University of East London; the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh; Goldsmiths, University of London; the Hutchins Centre of African and African American Research, Harvard University; University of Manchester; Merton College, Oxford University/TORCH, The Oxford Research Centre in Humanities; Queen Mary University London; Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust; University of Sussex; CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media), University of Westminster; and the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP). Recipients of the SHF x Cultural Studies Award and artists who have participated in the Stuart Hall Library Artist Residency are also invited to join the SHF Scholars and Fellows Network.
All scholarships are awarded by our partner institutions, and we are unfortunately not able to offer funding to students pursuing research outside these institutions. Please contact us at info@stuarthallfoundation.org with any inquiries.
All scholars and fellows associated with the Stuart Hall Foundation are mentioned below. Any universities or other institutions not named above, which offer awards or other positions in Stuart Hall’s name, do so without any formal connection to the Stuart Hall Foundation.
FELLOW | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2023
Erin James
Erin James is a Brighton-based multi-disciplinary artist, with a focus on the merging of art and activism through her practices. She is the founder of the socially engaged zine Tough Cookie,…
MA Scholar | TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 2021 – 2022
Emma Abboh
Emma started out as an English Teacher, teaching GCSE and A-level English in a number of further education colleges in inner city London and surrounding counties. Part of that role included…
M7 SCHOLAR | TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 2020 – 2022
Tamara Stuiver
I currently work within targeted youth services for young disabled people aged 11-25 as a team leader. I oversee several projects that support disabled young people to access accessible and…
PhD Scholar | University of Manchester | 2022 – 2025
Balqis Mohammed
I am an Education Studies (BA) and Social Research (MA) graduate and currently a 1st year PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University in the school of Childhood, Youth and Education…
MA Scholar | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | 2021 – 2023
Aruna Wittmann
Aruna Wittmann is in her second year of the Working with Children, Young People and Families: A Psychoanalytic Observational Approach Masters course at the Tavistock. She currently works at…
MA Scholar | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | 2021 – 2023
Shine Sibanda
I am currently working as a team manager in children care and Care Leavers Team in Devon. My role is quite vast in that I manage a team of social workers and personal advisors and also train…
PhD Scholar | Queen Mary University London | 2022 – 2025
Mohamed Ejjbair
Mohamed Ejjbair is a PhD student in the Comparative Literature department at Queen Mary, University of London. His PhD research concerns the use of prophecy in the online conspiracy theory…
PHD SCHOLAR | WHITE ROSE DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP (WRDTP) | 2022 – 2025
Sylvia Ikomi
Sylvia Ikomi is a recipient of a 2022 University of Leeds Stuart Hall Foundation/Economic and Social Research Council MA Social Research and PhD in Education studentship. She is an early…
MA SCHOLAR | TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 2019 – 2023
Natalie Barnett
Natalie Barnett currently works as a teaching assistant in a special educational needs college in London. A provision specialising in Autism and complex behaviours in young adults, Natalie…
PHD SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2022 – 2025
Fezile Sibanda
Brighton-based Fezile Sibanda joined the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholar and Fellow network in September 2022. She is a Doctoral researcher in Education Based at the University of Sussex and…
PHD SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER | 2022 – 2025
Trishauna Stewart
Trishauna Stewart is a British-Jamaican researcher, writer, educator and activist.
Inspired by her early/formulative reflections, Trishauna philosophises on, what she calls…
PHD SCHOLAR | BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2022 – 2025
Marisa K Henderson
Marisa is a practice-based PhD student in the department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck University, London.
She was awarded the CHASE Stuart Hall Foundation ARHC studentship…
PHD SCHOLAR | University of East Anglia | 2022 – 2025
Enzo Hamel
Enzo Hamel is a PhD student at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UK). His current PhD project is…
SHF x CULTURAL STUDIES AWARD WINNER | 2021
Aria S. Halliday
Aria S. Halliday, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr….
FELLOW | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2021 – 2022
Susuana Amoah
Susuana Amoah is the University of Sussex Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow (2021/2022). She is a Brighton-based cultural activist, artist-curator, and PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University…
MA SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2021 – 2022
Meha Dedhia
Meha Dedhia is an independent documentary filmmaker from Mumbai, currently studying an MA in Media Practice for Development and Social Change at the University of Sussex. After completing…
RESIDENT ARTIST | STUART HALL LIBRARY | 2021
Rohan Ayinde
Rohan Ayinde is an interdisciplinary poet based between London and Chicago. His work is centred around creating “otherwise” potentials (Ashon Crawley), and in so doing breaking down and…
MA Scholar | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | 2021 – 2023
Amalia Khemet
Amalia began her career in sport, training as a Sports Therapist. She has worked with both professional and semi-professional football teams, maintaining a passion for the development of…
MA Scholar | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | 2021 – 2023
Cheyenne Samuel
Cheyenne is deeply passionate about widening participation and encouraging representation of African-Caribbean communities within workforces. And supporting the wellbeing and welfare of all…
MA Scholar | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | 2021 – 2023
Hannah-Praise Israel
Hannah-Praise Israel has completed the post-graduate diploma in Working with Children, Young People and Families: A Psychoanalytic Observational Approach at the Tavistock Centre….
MA Scholar | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | 2021 – 2023
Rohima Bibi
I am an MA student at the Tavistock Centre, where I have completed the post-graduate diploma in Working with Children, Young People and Families: A Psychoanalytic Observational Approach at…
PHD Scholar | University of Manchester | 2021 – 2024
Gabriel Marques Camargo
Gabriel Marques Camargo is a Brazilian PhD student of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His passionate pursuit for knowledge and social justice awoke the scientific…
PHD Scholar | White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) | 2021 – 2024
Joyce Tsopo
Joyce Tsopo is a Ph.D. scholar in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She holds a BA (Hons) in International Development from the University of…
PHD Scholar | White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) | 2021 – 2024
Melissa Williams
I am a Law (LLB), Applied Human Rights (MA) graduate and incoming ESRC and Stuart Hall Foundation Scholar (MRes and PhD) at the University of York. I was raised in Merseyside by White…
PHD Scholar | White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) | 2021 – 2024
Shania Boom
Shania Boom is a WRDTP 3+1 student at the University of Bradford, currently starting her MSc in Social Sciences Research in Healthcare. Her current research focus has been towards Physically…
Fellow | Hutchins Centre, Harvard University | Autumn 2021
James Smethurst
James Smethurst is a Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry,…
Fellow | Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, Harvard University | 2020
Bill Schwarz
Bill Schwarz teaches in the School of English & Drama at Queen Mary University of London. He’s writing a three volume history, Memories of Empire, and with Catherine Hall is co-editor of…
SHF x Cultural Studies Award Winner | 2020
Jamie Hakim
Jamie Hakim is a lecturer in media studies at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He researches (mostly queer) men’s digital cultures of intimacy, embodiment and care. He is…
MA SCHOLAR | THE TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 2019-2021
Batseba Asefaw
Batseba Asefaw is an MA student at the Tavistock Centre where she is in the process of completing the course Working with Children, Young People and Families: A Psychoanalytic Observational…
RESIDENT ARTIST | STUART HALL LIBRARY | 2020
Rosa-Johan Uddoh
Rosa-Johan Uddoh (b.1993, Croydon) is an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing. Through performance, installation,…
MA SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2019–2020
Adey Abebe Balcha
Adey Abebe Balcha is a Digital Documentary MA Scholar at the University of Sussex (2019/2020). She was awarded the Silverstone Award for her dissertation documentary following her personal…
MA SCHOLAR | THE TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 2020-2022
Kairo Maynard
Kairo Maynard joined the SHF Scholars and Fellows network as a qualified Dramatherapist and MA student at the Tavistock Centre, where she has now completed the post-graduate diploma in…
PHD SCHOLAR | TECHNĒ AHRC COLLABORATIVE DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIP | 2020-23
Lola Olufemi
Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer, organiser and researcher from London. She holds an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Gender…
PHD SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER | 2020 – 2023
Lucija Duda
Lucija’s doctoral research project, A Call For An Analytic Feminist Model Of Argumentation, proposes how a long history of male dominance and antagonistic style of argument has led…
PHD SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF CAPETOWN | 2019-22
Alfred Kunutsor
Alfred Elikem Kunutsor is a Ghanaian born, South African resident who holds an MA and BA in Dramatic Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg-South Africa. Majoring in…
FELLOW | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2019 – 20
Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi
Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi is an independent investigative journalist. Her work has been twice shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for political…
SHF x Cultural Studies Award Winner | 2019
Eduardo Restrepo
Colombian anthropologist Eduardo Restrepo graduated from the University of Antioquia (Medellín, 1996), with a Masters and Doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill….
MA SCHOLAR | THE TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 2018–2020
Sagal Adam Hassan
Sagal Adam Hassan is currently undergoing Doctoral Training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Sagal was awarded the SHF / Tavistock…
DPHIL SCHOLAR | MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY | 2019–2022
Caetano Maschio Santos
Caetano Maschio Santos is a Brazilian musician and ethnomusicologist, and will be a Stuart Hall DPhil Scholar in the Faculty of Music at The University of Oxford between 2019–22….
ASSOCIATE FELLOW | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2018
Ingrid Pollard
Dr Ingrid Pollard was the inaugural Stuart Hall Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex in 2018. Ingrid has played an important role in photography since the early 1980s,…
MA SCHOLAR | THE TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 2018–2020
Vanessa Easy
Vanessa has a strong desire to work with black and ethnic minority young people particularly young adult males who have experienced significant traumas in early childhood such as…
RESIDENT ARTIST | STUART HALL LIBRARY | 2019
Alicja Rogalska
Alicja Rogalska is an artist living in London and working internationally. Her practice is research-led, interdisciplinary and focuses on social structures and the political subtext of the…
SHF x Cultural Studies Award Winner | 2018
Bohyeong Kim
Bohyeong Kim won the 2018 Cultural Studies and Stuart Hall Foundation Award for Early Career Researchers. Bohyeong received a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018 and is…
FELLOW | HUTCHINS CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESEARCH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY | 2018 – 2019
Derron Wallace
Derron Wallace was a Stuart Hall Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University in 2019. He is Assistant Professor of Education and…
FELLOW | HUTCHINS CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESEARCH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY | 2019–2020
Danielle Boaz
Danielle is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies in the area of social justice, human rights, and the law at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Danielle has a Ph.D. in…
FELLOW | HUTCHINS CENTER OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY | 2018
Peter Hulme
Peter Hulme was a Stuart Hall Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University in 2018. Peter is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the…
PHD SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON | 2018–2021
Erica Masserano
Erica Masserano is a PhD student of Creative Writing and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is from the first generation in her family to graduate from university. Her…
PHD SCHOLAR | GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2018-2024
Yassmin V. Foster
Yassmin V. Foster is a Stuart Hall PhD Scholar in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, at Goldsmiths University of London 2018–2024. She holds a BA (Hons)…
MA SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2018–2019
Luiza Paiva
Luiza Paiva was an MA Scholar in Media Practice for Development and Social Change at the University of Sussex between 2018–19. Born in Brazil, Luiza is a Creative Producer and holds a BA in…
RESIDENT ARTIST | STUART HALL LIBRARY | 2018
Bianca A. Manu
Bianca A. Manu is a Ghanaian British curator, producer and writer invested in art and photography. Her experience ranges from consultation, curation and production for Serpentine Gallery,…
RESIDENT ARTIST | STUART HALL LIBRARY | 2018
Erinma Ochu
Erinma is a neuroscientist and storyteller, experimenting with emerging technologies to re-imagine how to live equitably in a warming world. As co-director of Squirrel Nation they are an…
RESIDENT ARTIST | STUART HALL LIBRARY | 2018
Caroline Ward
Through a research-oriented arts practice spanning film and design, Caroline critically addresses the tensions and intersections across the cultural and geopolitical effects of climate…
SHF x Cultural Studies Award Winner | 2017
Laura Junka-Aikio
Laura Junka-Aikio Laura won the 2017 Cultural Studies and Stuart Hall Foundation Award for Early Career Researchers. Laura is a researcher at the Tromsø University Museum, University of…
PHD SCHOLAR | GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2017–2020
Priya Sharma
Priya Sharma is a film maker and researcher, and has been a Stuart Hall PhD Scholar in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London between…
PHD SCHOLAR | GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2017–2020
June Melody
June Melody has been a Stuart Hall PhD Scholar at the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London between 2017–20. Her research interests…
DPHIL SCHOLAR | MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY / TORCH | 2017–2020
Ruth Ramsden-Karelse
Ruth Ramsden-Karelse is founder and co-convener of the Oxford Queer Studies Network and a DPhil candidate in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. The inaugural Stuart Hall…
PHD SCHOLAR | BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2017–2020
Matt Martin
Dr. Matt Martin was Stuart Hall PhD Scholar in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London between 2017–20. The Stuart Hall Foundation’s funding…
PHD SCHOLAR | THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE | 2017–2020
Jade Montserrat
Jade Montserrat has been a Stuart Hall PhD Scholar in the School of Art, Design and Performance at the University of Central Lancashire between 2017–20. Jade studied at Courtauld Institute…
FELLOW | HUTCHINS CENTER OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY | 2017–2018
Jenny Sharpe
Jenny Sharpe was a Stuart Hall Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University between 2017–18. Jenny had the good fortune to study with Stuart…
PHD SCHOLAR | GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2016–2023
Chantal Meng
Chantal Meng is a researcher, creative director, artist and a Stuart Hall PhD Scholar at Goldsmiths, University of London (2016–23). Chantal holds a Master’s degree in Photography and Urban…
PHD SCHOLAR | GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2016–2017
Grace Tillyard
Grace Tillyard is a researcher and writer who recently completed her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies. Grace’s research…
BA SCHOLAR | GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2017–2018
Maya Mackay
Maya Mackay was awarded the Professor Stuart Hall BA Bursary to study the Integrated Degree in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London between 2017–18. Maya is…
MA SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2017–2018
Marie Hasselberg
Marie Hasselberg was an MA Scholar in Media Practice for Development and Social Change at the University of Sussex between 2017–18. Her studies focused on the production of…
RESIDENT ARTIST | STUART HALL LIBRARY | 2017
Ting-Ting Cheng
Ting-Ting Cheng was born in 1985, Taipei. After graduating from BA Advertisement and PR at Fu-Jen University, Cheng moved to London and received her first MA in Photographic Studies from the…
FELLOW | HUTCHINS CENTER OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY | 2016–2017
Petrina Dacres
Petrina Dacres was a Stuart Hall Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University between 2016–17. Petrina is the Head of the Art History…
BA SCHOLAR | GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2016–2020
Christopher Boyle
Christopher Boyle was awarded the Professor Stuart Hall BA Bursary to study the Integrated Degree in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London between…
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW | TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DORTMUND | 2016–2019
Mark Schmitt
Mark Schmitt is assistant professor for British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University (Germany) and has been a postdoctoral Stuart Hall Fellow between 2016–19. He previously worked at…
PHD FELLOW | RUHR-UNIVERSITY BOCHUM | 2016–2019
Anna Lienen
Anna Lienen has been a Stuart Hall Fellow at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany between 2016–19. Anna currently teaches in the field of British Cultural Studies at Ruhr-University. She…
BA SCHOLAR | GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 2015–2019
Martin Smith
Martin Smith was awarded the Professor Stuart Hall BA Bursary to study the Integrated Degree in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London between 2015–16. Martin continued…
MA SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2016–2017
Andrew O’Connor
Andrew O’Connor is a first-generation scholar who was awarded a Stuart Hall MA Scholarship to complete an MA in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex between…
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