CJ Reynolds is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem researching accountability, policing, and user-generated content on…

Dharma Taylor is a multidisciplinary designer and maker with a background specialising in menswear and textiles. She graduated from Rochester University for the creative arts with a BA in…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Trishauna Stewart is a British-Jamaican researcher, writer, educator and activist.

Inspired by her early/formulative reflections, Trishauna philosophises on, what she calls…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

Cheyenne is deeply passionate about widening participation and encouraging representation of African-Caribbean communities within workforces. And supporting the wellbeing and welfare of all…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi is an independent investigative journalist. Her work has been twice shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for political…

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….

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…

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….

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Annie is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Media and Communications. She was awarded a Stuart Hall PhD scholarship in 2015–16 and was funded by CHASE/AHRC…

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…

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…