PhD Supervision
I'm happy to consider proposals that fall in my area of expertise - political economy of Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore | politics of financial development | international political economy of Islamic economies. Please note that I currently don't have the capacity to support any new projects for 2026 entry if you haven't yet approached me.
If you are considering to approach me about PhD supervision, please take into account that I'm based in a Department of Politics and International Studies and therefore can only consider proposals that engage relevant analytical frameworks.
For more information about studying for a PhD in PAIS, please see: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/prospectivestudents/postgraduate/researchcourses.
On PAIS funding opportunities, please see here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/prospectivestudents/postgraduate/researchcourses/funding/
Together with my colleague Juanita Elias, I wrote a piece about applying for a PhD in the UK. You can find it here: https://www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/writing-phd-application-or-proposal. Please note that this is for the UK only - the admissions process in other countries (and even within the UK, some disciplines) can be quite different.
Current Projects
- The Everyday Political Economy of Labour Migration in Malaysia and Indonesia
Completed Projects
- Relative Predictability: The International Political Economy of Passive Investment
- The Everyday Political Economy of Raced Capitalism in Malaysia: Reinscribing Malay Women’s Lives, Labour, and Households
- Make/Hack the Bank! The Political Economy of FinTech
- Capital markets with Chinese characteristics: Exchanges, state capitalism & China’s integration into the global financial order
- Impact Bonds and the Ambiguous Politics of Market Ethics
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Interpreting Global Norms in Southeast Asia: the Case of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)
- A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Asian Financial Regionalism: A Case Study of the Making of Japan’s Regional Financial Cooperation Policies, 1997-2017
- Contested Foreign Policy. Understanding Indonesia’s Regional and Global Roles
- Issuing Fatwas in the Name of the State: Reshaping Co-optation through Religious Decrees in Singapore
- Ordinary Democracy. Reading Resistances to Debt After the Global Financial Crisis With Stanley Cavell’s Ordinary Language Philosophy - WINNER OF THE 2018 ECPR JEAN BLONDEL THESIS PRIZE
- The Condition of Market Emergence in Indonesia: Coloniality as Exclusion and Translation
- Cross-Strait Relations in the Process of Economic Integration: Same Game, But Different Logic
- Understanding and Explaining Deviant Autocracies: The Cases of Hong Kong and Singapore
- Financial Stability and Central Bank Power: A Comparative Perspective