Charlie Dominic

Charlie Dominic (she/her) is an Anthropologist of the material cultures of sex at University College London.

Her current PhD work focusses on the material culture practices of LGBTQIA+ sex workers in London. Her more broader research interests lie in the material culture of sexual practices, the formation of sexuality through material culture, and the relationship between sex and capitalism.

Charlie is the founder of the Materialities of Sex Research Group, which invites cross-disciplinary academics, artists and interested persons to explore themes of identity politics, material cultures, ethics, social morality and the legal frameworks of sexual practice.

Most importantly, Charlie seeks to produce research that is accessible and available to the communities she works with, joining together Anthropology and activism. She is on the Editorial Board of Math Magazine, part of the Editorial Collective of an upcoming RAI Special Edition anthology on Diversity, and is always looking for further collaborations (paid gigs, to the front).

Emilie Glazer

Emilie Glazer (she/her) is a PhD researcher based at UCL anthropology, with a project which explores how water infrastructure becomes important for health, healing and care in Jerusalem and beyond. Her interests span the implications and ethics of emerging science and technology, care, climate justice, and multiple imaginaries of the future, past and present. Her PhD is supported through a Doctoral Studentship from the Wellcome Trust.

Alongside academia, Emilie collaborates with a range of organisations and community groups on initiatives which involve participatory design, trans-disciplinarity, citizen science, digital health, and youth development. What runs throughout are interventions which, in their own small ways, serve to redraw lines of power – whether in the production of scientific knowledge, the development of new technologies or the provision of care.

Victoria Tecca

Victoria Tecca (she/her) is a PhD candidate in anthropology at UCL. Her research examines the intersections of violence and affect in a makeshift tent settlement built by undocumented Kurdish migrants on the northern French coast.

She is particularly interested in questions surrounding everyday expressions of power, border deaths as a mechanism of nation-building, and the role of joy and laughter in what are deemed 'crises'.

In addition to conducting research, Victoria is a migrants' rights activist who specializes in gathering testimony for legal challenges to and evaluations of state policy on immigration and asylum. Her work has contributed to key judicial rulings on access to shelter, information, and drinking water for street homeless migrants in France and has been examined as evidence by the UK Home Affairs Committee in their investigations of Home Office practice.

Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou

Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou (she/her) is a PhD candidate at UCL Anthropology, awarded a Sigrid Rausing Trust scholarship to study formal and informal networks of care provision for refugees in ‘post-emergency’ Greece, through the lens of human rights. 

Her research interests involve care and affect, historicity, mutual aid, humanitarianism(s), the border regime, human rights, politics and the social production of urban space. Previous research includes collective action and affect of Civil War historicities in the Greek Crisis (UCL), interconnections of cultural memory and built heritage in post-partition Punjab (British Council/AHRC) and public engagement with socialist monuments and identity politics in Tirana (European Cultural Foundation). She often uses participatory filmmaking methodologies in research and public engagement and has collaborated with numerous charities and NGOs in the production of audiovisual work on disability, mental health and experiences of incarceration.

She is actively engaged in networks of mutual aid, and occasionally writes articles on issues of social justice. She is currently co-running an online reading group on Care literature, Care Matters. Her biggest achievement to date, has been her inclusion in Wikipedia’s entry on Athens Refugee Squats.

Alice Riddell

Alice Riddell is a first year PhD candidate in Digital Anthropology at UCL. Alice’s research explores a live-streaming street crime app called Citizen, and its impact on neighbourhood relations in New York City. She is particularly interested in questions surrounding the impact of urban peer-to-peer surveillance, the complexities of citizen journalism and the emergence of the digital Panopticon.

In addition to conducting research, Alice produces teaching and homework resources for AnthroSchools, an initiative working towards decolonising the A-level curriculum, improving the accessibility of anthropology as a discipline, and introducing younger students to the social sciences through free and open-source materials.