Gender studies; Gender and violence; Peace and conflict research; International relations and security policy; regional conflicts (Iraq, Sudan); Theories of international relations; International organizations, postcolonial and feminist theories
Feminist political theory, theories of social reproduction and care work, feminist critique of political economy, materialist-feminist state theory, queer and trans studies, feminist movements
Intersections among gender, family and migration ; International labour migration and subjectification especially among women who stay behind; Exploitation, young men and seafaring labour in the global maritime industry; Social adulthood, intergenerational contract and international labour migration; Youth unemployment, education-to-work transition and seafaring labour; Social memory and authoritarian regimes; Narrative and the politics of remembering/forgetting the Marcos military regime; Writers, ethnicity and collaboration
Citizenship (National Narrative, Marginalisation); Emotions Ethnology (Emotions Regulation; Emotion & Diaspora); Creolized and Political Islam; Revitalisation of Afro-Caribbean Religions; Relatedness (New Forms of Kinship); Sexuality, Gender (Deviance, Normativity, Morals), South East Asia (Indonesia), Anglophone Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago), Germany (Urban Berlin).