5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ

Chi Eziefula

Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Infection (Brighton and Sussex Medical School)

Hayley Macgregor

Research Fellow (Institute of Development Studies)

Elizabeth Mills

Senior Lecturer in International Development (School of Global Studies)

Members Focus

Find out about our members and the amazing work they are doing!

Dr. Shalini Nair has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project on decolonial justice for marital rape survivors in India. She will begin the fellowship in September 2025 at the 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Glasgow, where she is currently a Lecturer in Criminology and a member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR), a collaboration among several Scottish universities. Shalini completed her PhD in Gender Studies (Sociology) at the 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ in October 2023. Her Leverhulme-funded research seeks to make a significant intervention in the ongoing policy discourse on the criminalisation of marital rape in India. Drawing on her background as an Indian policy journalist and her academic work on gender-based violence and abolition feminism, the project will contribute original scholarship on justice for marital rape survivors. The research adopts a sociological lens on a criminological issue, grounded in decolonial and intersectional feminist methodologies.

 (Above: Dr. Shalini Nair)

Dr. Sophie Zadeh is a Reader in Family Psychology at the School of Psychology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ. She joined CORTH at the same time she joined Sussex, in March 2024. Sophie first completed a doctorate in social psychology at the Centre for Family Research, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Cambridge. She remains interested in the intersection of social and developmental psychology in the study of non-normative families, including families formed through assisted reproduction. Sophie has conducted some of the first psychological studies of children and young people's perspectives and experiences in families headed by single mothers by sperm donation; two-parent families via sperm donation, egg donation, and surrogacy; and trans parent families. Most recently, she led the Young Adults Study: www.youngadultsstudy.co.uk

 (Above: Dr. Sophie Zadeh)

Adriana Myland is a first year doctoral student in Social Anthropology based in the School of Global Studies. Her research focuses on Hausa Muslim women's experience of divorce in the context of Islamic Law in Abuja, Nigeria. She is working with two supervisors: Prof. Pamela Kea, an expert on West Africa and Prof. Maya Unnithan, specialist in the anthropology of reproduction and human rights. From being part of CORTH her highlight this year was attending the 10th anniversary and being inspired by impactful research taking place globally.

 (Above: Adriana Myland)

Centre associates and advisors

Associated Sussex faculty

Kwame Akyeampong Janet Boddy Paul Boyce Philip Bremner Rachel Burr Angelica Cabezas Pino Tam Cane Jackie Cassell Andrea Cornwall Vinita Damodaran Bethany Davies Mark Davies Priya Deshingkar Mairead Dunne Stefan Elbe Bobbie Farsides Anne Gatuguta Lyndsay McLean Hilker Tamsin Hinton-Smith Ben Hunter Collins Iwuji Pamela Kea Carrie Llewellyn Gitau Mburu JoAnn McGregor Daniel Michelson

Jo Moran-Ellis Maria Moscatti Melanie Newport David Orr Dimitra Petrakaki Alison Phipps Rebecca Prentice Anne Roemer-Mahler Anke Schwittay Arianne Shahvisi Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner Tanja Staehler Paul Statham Ruth Stirton Rachel Thomson Sue Thornham Charles Watters Catherine Will Shahaduz Zaman

Senior research associates and advisors

 (Centre for Social Research in Health, The 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of New South Wales, Australia)

(King's College Hospital; and Department of Global Health, King's College London, UK)

Prof Gillian Bendelow (Sociology of Health & Medicine, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Brighton, UK

(International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion)

(Complex Obstetrics, Kings College London, UK)

 (Department of Anthropology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Hawaii, USA)

(Zubann Books)

 (Centre for Health and Social Justice, New Delhi, India; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Global Health, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Washington, USA)

(Coordinator SAHAYOG Lucknow, India)

 (Department of Anthropology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Manchester, UK) 

 (Department of Anthropology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Copenhagen, Denmark)

(Professor, Director of the Centre on Law & Social Transformation, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Bergen)

(Prayas, Chittorgarh, India)

 (School of Law, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Essex, UK)

 (Department of Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology, Yale 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, USA)

(Co-director, Action Research and training in Health, Udaipur, India)

(Institute for International Health and Development, Queen Margaret 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, Scotland)

(Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore)

 (School of Health Sciences, City, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of London, UK)

(Department of Global Health and Infection, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK)

 (Department of Anthropology, Cambridge 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, UK)

(Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of York)

 (Chair of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, USA)

 (School of Anthropology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Arizona, USA)

  (School of Global Affairs, King's College, London))

 (Department of Sociology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Delhi, India)

 (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, Canada)

(Deputy Director, South Asia Institute, SOAS, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of London, UK)

 (Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawahar Lal 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, Delhi, India)

Prof Shobhita Rajagopal (Director, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India)

 (Rector, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria; Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland)

(School of Education & Lifelong Learning, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of East Anglia, UK)

 (Department of Women’s Health, King's College, London, UK)

Parry Scott (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)

(Kent Law School, UK)

(Social Anthropology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Cambridge, UK)

(Gender and Health Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK)

 (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality Research Group (FRSG), Oxford 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, UK and ISCA and Journal of Middle East Women's Studies)

(Professor and Principal, Birth Place Lab, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of British Columbia) 

  (Rector and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of SPMVV, the Women’s 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ in Tirupati)

 (Department of Anthropology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Copenhagen, Denmark)

(Director, Health and Rights of Women and Children, FXB Harvard School of Public Health; Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ Law Center)

External members and visitors

  (European 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ Institute)

 (Queen Mary, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of London)

 (Department of Microbiology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Cape Coast, Ghana)

Dr Gunjan Arora (Post Doc Fellow, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, New Delhi).  'My doctorate from 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Delhi has been on Body, Gender and Health with a focus on motherhood and Reproductive Choice. For my Post Doc Research work (at JNU), I am furthering my work and looking at Body Politics and use of assisted reproductive technologies in Urban areas especially Delhi with a focus on middle class women.'

Dr Daniela Attalogliu (Post doc, Finland)

(Education Officer, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet)

Miranda Bain (John Hopkins 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, School of Public Health)

(5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Roehampton)

(Researcher, British Pregnancy Advisory Service)

 (Nuffield Department of Population Health, Medical Sciences Division, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Oxford, UK)

Elena Caruso (Kent Law School. Research Interests: abortion law; Italian abortion law)

 (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Minho, Lisbon, Portugal)

Ms Alice Charwudze (Univ of Cape Coast, Ghana)

(Department of Health Sciences, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of York, UK)

(Associate Professor at the Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity and Social Determinants of Health at the Public Health Foundation of India, Bangalore)

Jane Cleary (Consultant Midwife. Research interests: Choice and personalisation in maternity and Birth Trauma)

Katie Parker-Conway (Brighton and Sussex 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ Hospitals) 

Dr Amaran Cumarasamy (CORBIS) 

(Royal Holloway, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of London)

Dr Jenny Diggins (Oxford Brookes, UK)

(Universidad de Buenos Aires)

 (Department of Geography and Environmental Science, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Reading, UK)

Dr Deirdre Niamh Duffy (Manchester Metropolitan 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ)

(BRAC 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, Bangladesh)

（Department of Anthropology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Brasilia, Brazil)

  (Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM))

Dr Bronwen Gillespie  (Independent Researcher (Spain), Online Tutor (Queen Mary 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of London))

  (Law School, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Exeter)

 (Department of Anthropology, Durham 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, UK)

Will Hood (Creative director of the Academic Podcast Agency)

  (Goldsmiths, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of London)

 (Department of Sociology, De Montfort 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, UK)

 (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Cambridge)

Dr Sultana Khanum (Lecturer, Bangladesh)

(5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

（Geography and Environmental Science, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Reading, UK）

( 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Nottingham)

(Unisciences, Université de Lausanne)

(5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Cape Coast, Ghana)

(Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad) 

Prof Claudia Mattalucci (Univ of Milan)

Dr Gitau Mburu, Senior researcher/ visitor Global Health Policy, Sussex

 (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Bristol Law School, UK)

(Department of Social Anthropology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Cambridge, UK)

Dr Anand Mohan (Gynaecologist, Sevana Hospital pvt ltd, Kerala India. Director of Susrutha Fertility Centre, current Phd student in Psychology, Santhosh 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ)

 (Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Bergen, Norway)

 (Department of Anthropology, Durham 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, UK）

Dr Lucilia Newell

  (LAMC, Brussels)

(5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Oxford, UK)

(School of Law, Trinity College Dublin)

Dr Rachel Olson (The Firelight Group, UK)

 (Prayas, Rajasthan, India)

 (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK)

  (Reader in Development Studies, Liverpool John Moores 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ)

(Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France)

 (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, UK)

Dr Kirat Randhawa 

(JNU, Dehli, India)

 (Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Heidelberg) 

 (Department of Sociology, Essex, UK)

  (Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers, UK)

  (School of Law, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Warwick, UK)

Mariana Simões (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Brasília)

Ruchika Wason Singh (Visiting Faculty, Ashoka 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, Sonepat, India). 'I am an artist, an art educator and a researcher based in Delhi. In 2016, I started a self-funded project called A.M.M.A.A.- The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia.'

(Cynefin Centre for Applied Complexity, Bangor 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ) 

(5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Oslo, Norway)

Dr Yeyang Su

  (Australian National 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ)

  (Brandon 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ)

  (African Centre for Migration & Society, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

(Women's 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ in Tirupati, India)

Elizabeth Wright Ventimilla (Interim Programme Associate for Latin America & the Caribbean at Mama Cash, an international feminist fund based in the Netherlands)

(Centre for Medical Anthropology, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Edinburgh)

Dr Silvia De Zordo (Departamento de Antropología Cultural y de Historia de América y África, Universitat de Barcelona)

Sussex postdoctoral fellows and researchers

Dr Caroline Ackley (BSMS)

Jean Paul Bikorimana (BSMS & 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Rwanda)

Dr Natalie Edelman (BSMS)

Hasarali Fernando (BSMS)

Dr Ben Kasstan (Global Studies)

Dr Gillian Love (LPS)

Dr Mary Frances Lukera (LPS)

Dr Ulla McKnight  (Sociology)

Dr Papreen Nahar (BSMS)

Sunisha Neupane (IDS)

Graduate associates

Internal graduates (IDS) Zula Afawork (Sussex MA graduate, Jhpiego, Ethiopia. Research interests: Most effective ANC and PNC interventions in Ethiopia) Neemah Ahamed (LPS) Nathali Arias Rebecca Ashley (Global studies) (IDS) Zuhra Bahman (Global Studies) Lavinia Bertini (Global Studies) Laura Del Duca (IDS, SEI) Ebru Demir (LPS) Patti Gonsalves (Psychology) Diana Grimaldi (IDS)  Fiona Hill (Undergraduate student, Sussex) (IDS) Annabelle Inman (Global Studies) Eleanor Kashouris (LPS) Po-Han Lee (LPS) Fernanda Meira (Visiting Fellow, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) Larissa Mulka (BSMS) (IDS) Anyesha Nandi (IDS) Keith Rodway (Global Studies) (IDS) Amanda Scott Raphaëlle Vanden Bemden (Global Studies) Lourdes Akello Walusala (School of Media, Film and Music) Maria Wardale (MA Migration and Global Development, Sussex) Florence Waruguru Wanjiku (LPS) Cassandra Anna Mary Wiener (LPS) Elaney Youssef (BSMS)

External graduates Kate Austin (Florence Nightingale Faulty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College, UK) (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Edinburgh) (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ at Albany, USA) Thea de Gruchy (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) (Centre for International Health, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Bergen) (Western 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, Canada) Verena Kozmann (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Vienna) Ms Essi Kpegba (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Ghana, Legon)  Linn Lövgren (MA student in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ) (ISCA, Oxford, UK) Tackson Makandwa (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Goitse Manthata (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Miranda Marks (Universität Leipzig, Germany) (Centre for International Health, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Bergen) (Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany) (London School of Economics and Political Science) Emiliomo Ogbe (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Ghent, Belgium) (European 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ Institute, Italy) Elsa Oliveira (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Zuzana PešÅ¥anská (Comenius 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, Slovakia) Gauri Pillai (Nuffield Department of Population Health, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Oxford) (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of South Florida, Tampa) (DeMontfort 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, UK) Rosie Wigmore (Development Reimagined) Lenka Zahradkova (Charles 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ, Czech Republic)

Contact

corth@sussex.ac.uk