Dr Muhammad Isa Waley Curator for Persian & Turkish, Asian and African Studies at British Library Expertise: Persian, Turkish and Arabic manuscripts: palaeography, codicology, illumination, illustration, cataloguing etc. Dr Waley is a Member of the Islamic Manuscript Association. Dr Waley co-authored a recent (2014) publication The Mughals: Life, Art and Culture: Mughal Manuscripts and [...]
Dr Marios Hadjianastasis Historian of the Ottoman Empire, the early modern Mediterranean and global history and an academic practice advisor at the Centre for Learning and Academic Development (CLAD) at the University of Birmingham Dr Hadjianastasis has PhD in Ottoman History from University of Birmingham (Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies). [...]
Dr Jan Fidrmuc Senior Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics and Finance, School of Social Sciences and Centre for Economic Development and Institutions (CEDI), Brunel University, London, UK Dr Jan Fidrmuc is a Senior Lecturer in Economics,Department of Economics and Finance, School of Social Sciences and Centre for Economic Development and Institutions (CEDI),Brunel University, London, [...]
Tony Osborne London Bureau Chief, Aviation Week After working for four years in regional newspapers in his hometown of Swindon, Tony Osborne followed his passion for aviation landing a job with Shephard Media a small defence publishing house acting as deputy editor on two helicopter magazines, before joining Aviation Week as the U.S. [...]
Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay Associate Professor in Islamic Art and Architecture at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and a Fellow of Wolfson College Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay is currently an Associate Professor in Islamic Art and Architecture at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and a Fellow of Wolfson College. Her research interests include the late [...]
Dr Nur Sobers-Khan British Library, Lead Curator for South Asia Dr Nur Sobers-Khan completed a PhD in Islamic History in 2012 at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University Cambridge, having previous completing a BA in Oriental Studies (Arabic and Persian) at the same institution in 2006. Her PhD [...]
Dr Dinah Manisty Librarian-in-Charge at Oxford University Oriental Institute Library
Alasdair Watson Bahari Curator at the Bodleian Libraries with responsibility for Middle Eastern and Islamic manuscripts at University of Oxford Alasdair Watson is Bahari Curator at the Bodleian Libraries with responsibility for Middle Eastern and Islamic manuscripts. He is also a Welcome Research Fellow for the History of Medicine at the Oriental Institute, Oxford. Alasdair’s current research [...]
Dr Juliette Desplat Head, Modern Overseas Records, Advice & Records Knowledge Department, The National Archives Juliette Desplat has a PhD in British Studies/History of ideas (2011) from the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and joined The National Archives in June 2013 after having worked as a research analyst in the private sector. She [...]
Prof Lisa Webley Professor of Empirical Legal Studies, University of Westminster Lisa Webley is Professor of Empirical Legal Studies and holds a Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies University of London. She has extensively researched gender and diversity in the legal profession, which has included major collaborative research projects [...]
