Our team
Professor Katherine Brickell
Katherine is Professor of Urban Studies at King’s College London and was Principal Investigator (PI) leading the study. For more than 15 years she has undertaken research in Cambodia on human rights issues from a gendered perspective. Her other projects in Cambodia have focused on domestic violence law and the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on female garment workers.
Dr Sopheak Chann
Sopheak is Lecturer at the Natural Resource Management and Development Department, Royal University of Phnom Penh, and an honorary associate in Geography at the University of Sydney. He specialises on land and resource management and has a PhD on the Cambodian resource frontiers.
Dr Laurie Parsons
Laurie is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at RHUL, and was Co-Investigator (Co-I) on the project. Since 2008 he has explored how inequality structures mobility in Cambodia. Laurie has undertaken research on economic development and inequalities for a range of NGOs in Cambodia including Transparency International, Plan International, Save the Children, CARE International, ActionAid, and the IDRC, among others.
Dr Nithya Natarajan
Nithya is Senior Lecturer of International Development at King’s College London. Her work focuses on South India and Cambodia, and explores agrarian change, rural-urban livelihoods, labour precarity, gender and debt. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher on the Blood Bricks project.
Mr Thomas Cristofoletti
Thomas was the project's photographer. Based in Phnom Penh, he’s also the co-founder of RUOM, a collective of journalists specializing in social reportage throughout Asia. Especially passionate about climate change, Thomas’ long- term project focuses on the effects of development on the Mekong region.
Academic advisory board
Professor Kevin Bales
Kevin is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, UK. He was Co-Founder of Free the Slaves in Washington DC, the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights group founded in 1787.
Dr Priya Deshingkar
Priya is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Global Studies at Sussex University, UK. She is Research Director of the DFID Migrating out of Poverty Research Consortium. She writes on precarious occupations and debt-migration.
Professor Ian Cook
Ian is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter. He is best known for his research on commodity geographies and the spoof shopping website followthethings.com which is central to his research and pedagogic practice.
