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Elspeth Van Veeren (Coordinator)

War on Terror, United States, security, secrecy cultures, visual politics

Clare Stevens (SPIN Labs Lead, Steering Group)

Cybersecurity, Technology

Brian Rappert (Steering Group)

Technology, ignorance, revelation and writing

Owen Thomas (Steering Group)

Security, Accountability, Governance

Ellie Fox

Strategic ignorance; environmental governance; mining; remote sensing

Khadijah Na’eem

Grenfell, neoliberalism, politically constructed ignorance

Daisy Moynagh

Secrecy, intimacy, family, technology and everyday life

Steph Codsi

surveillance, espionage, secret writing, coded language

Ziyun Fan

Secrecy, Climate Change, Organisations, Non-Western

Aidah Aljuran

concealment, secrecy, gender, Ismaʿili epistemology

Zara Bain (SPIN Research Fellow 2026)

White Ignorance; Epistemologies of Ignorance; Epistemic Injustice/Epistemic Oppression

Susannah Lee (SPIN Intern 2025)

Community Building, Gender, Power and Resistance, Stealth and Obfuscation

Yi Wang (SPIN Fellow 2025)

Feminist Counterpublics; Authoritarianism; Power Relations; Secret activism

Vera Zurbrügg

hidden history, financial complicity, institutional authority, gold trade

Tim Aistrope

Conspiracy, security, popular culture, visual politics

Edmund Clark

state secrecy, systems of power, conflict, control

Susan Maret

Secrecy, bureaucracy, US politics, FOI, censorship

Jeffrey Whyte

Critical Military Studies, Politics of Truth, Knowledge and Ignorance, Foucault, Political Geography

Luca Trenta

secrecy, covert action, state-sponsored assassination

William Walters

secrecy, governmentality, migration, citizenship

Chloe Peacock

riots, criminal justice, ignorance

Jamie M. Johnson

Scandal, Revelation, Accountability, Violence

Clare Birchall

conspiracy theory, dataveillance, aesthetics of secrecy, transparency

Hannah Wright

Gender, national security, white ignorance, counter-terrorism

Natalie Ferris

gender, secrecy, sensory overload, histories of women's labour, intelligence work

Ana Flamind

scandals, secrecy, transgression, sociology of critique

Claudia Hillebrand

Intelligence, counter-terrorism, legitimacy

Thomas Leahy

Intelligence, Ireland, Britain

Oliver Kearns

Violence, the state, sound, secrecy

Natalie Jester

Social media, security, arms, gender

Lisa Stampnitzky

secrecy, speakability, human rights, war on terror

Sam Forsythe

Secrecy, deception, intelligence, disinformation

Lydia Morgan

state secrecy; law; liberal democratic secrecy; transparency

Robert Luzar

Trace, erasure, secrecy, event

Natasha Mulvihill

Sex, coercion, abuse, power, secrecy

Hannah Richards

Open justice, human rights, transparency, violence

Henrietta Wilson

International Treaty Negotiations, Nuclear Weapons management

Manjeet Ramgotra

Decolonialism, silence, erasure, republicanism, political theory

Martin Parker

Organisation studies, alternative organising, writing practices

Ashutosh Shaktan (SPIN Art Fellow 2024-25)

politics of representation, speculative documentary, decolonisation

Harvey Dryer (SPIN Fellow 2024-2025)

Conspiracy theories, Gender Silences, White Rage

Zoé Samudzi (SPIN Fellow 2021)

white ignorance, white innocence, racial in-group

Louise Pears (SPIN Fellow 2021)

intelligence, social media, security, audiences

Gillian Ang (SPIN Fellow 2020)

decolonisation, gender, queerness, critical security

Isha Vibhakar (SPIN Intern 2021)

Conspiracy, Erasure and Silence.

Lauren Hutfield (SPIN Fellow 2020-2022 )

decolonisation, race, ignorance

Charlotte Fong Clarke (SPIN Fellow 2021)

Decoloniality, Power, Knowledge, Environmentalism

James Mansfield (SPIN Art Fellow 2021)

Art, Fictions, Contemporary Archaeology

Lewis Bush (SPIN Art Fellow 2023-24)

Power, Technology, Organisation, Complex systems, Erasure, Visibility

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