PhD Supervision
*** Please note that I currently don't have the capacity to support any new projects. Please check back in late September/early October 2026.***
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.
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