This research group is united by a shared orientation towards critical - including feminist and anti-colonial – scholarship and activism, that perceives social justice not only as a research topic but as a research orientation and goal. As one of the largest research groups in the Department of International Development at King's, our members address an extensive range of research specialities - spanning gender, citizenship, labour, food systems, infrastructure, and urbanisation – through a collective identity and shared intellectual project. Our research examines how injustices come about and are perpetuated, contested, and transformed in a diversity of sites from local grassroots activism to global policy processes.

Our research members have a strong commitment to creative and interdisciplinary approaches, firmly grounded in qualitative, embodied, arts-based, and participatory methods. We are interested in the creativity of contestation and resistance, as well as in the use of creative and reflexive methodologies in collaborative and engaged research. While rooted in social justice, our focus on creative contestations captures our willingness to foster dialogue between theory and practice, cultivating engaged scholarship that bridges research and impact. Through structured and informal exchanges, we aim to build a community of support, creativity, and critique.