Mark Johnson is Professor of Anthropology, and Dean of the Graduate School at Goldsmiths, University of London.  He is Principal Investigator and co-director of the UKRI GCRF GlobalGRACE project and previously  of the AHRC funded Curating Development project and of the British Academy project investigating migrant experiences of surveillance in Hong Kong. He has long term research interest on the Philippines including migrant and diasporan Filipinos living and working in different parts of the world.   His research interests are shaped by his own personal history having grown up in Sulu and Zamboanga in the southern Philippines. Read more >

Dr Deirdre McKay (Keele University) researches indigenous peoples, development and migration. She is the author of Global Filipinos (Indiana, 2012) and An Archipelago of Care(Indiana, 2016). She has worked with CIDA and AusAID-funded projects in the Philippines and with Filipino migrant communities in Canada, Hong Kong, London and online. She is interested in personal stories of development, migration strategies, and people’s sense of self, and how these phenomena are being reshaped by social media. She’s interested in development, media and creative approaches more broadly - her other projects explore upcycled plastic arts and crafts and ‘private aid’ after natural disasters. Read more >

Maggy Lee is Professor of Criminology at the University of Hong Kong.  She has published widely in sociology and criminology especially in the field of migration and human trafficking and is Co-Investigator on the AHRC Curating Development project and on the British Academy project investigating migrant experiences of surveillance in Hong Kong. Read more >

Gabriela Nicolescu is Associate Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London and postdoctoral researcher in the AHRC funded Curating Development project. Gabriela’s primary research interests are with material culture, visual anthropology and present museums and exhibitions engaging with debates in medical anthropology, politics, economics and social change. Read more >

Nathalie Dagmang is a Filipino artist who works in collaboration with Curating Development and a lecturer at Ateneo de Manila University. Her recent art projects make use of ethnographic practices and involve a riverine community in her hometown Marikina City, Philippines, communities of Overseas Filipino Workers in the UK and most recently, food vendors and homeless women residing along a heritage street in Manila. She has exhibited her works in various galleries and community spaces in the Philippines, Hongkong, Singapore, Taiwan and the U.K.  Read more >