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trade. Lloyd is pursuing his Phd in International Law concurrently with his activism which he hopes will
lead him into a career of academia or working for an international charity or research policy unit.
MOHAMMED HANIF KHAN is a 1st year PhD in the School of Social, Political and Global Studies. He studied
BA (Hons) International Politics/Spanish at The Manchester Metropolitan University, where his
dissertation compared the thought of Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli in order to appraise their
understanding of civic liberty. He recently completed an MRes in Philosophy at Keele University, where
his dissertation appraised the phenomenon of philosophical anarchism and political obligation through a
comparative lens using and evaluating the thought of Ibn Khaldun and Hobbes. His proposed Doctoral
research will seek to appraise the theories of communal and individual obligations, and how these themes
appear in the Islamic Mirror for Princes literature; this will involve evaluating the writings of various
theorists, including Ibn Khaldun, Al-Ghazali, and Ibn Al Azraq.
MARIO GARCIA NIETO is an alumnus of Keele’s MA History program. During this period, he studied and
researched the History of Africa along with constructions of Nationalism. His dissertation, from which this
paper is largely taken, dealt with al-Andalus, or what is now categorized as medieval Spain, under Muslim
rule. The region has become historically famous for its ethics of tolerance: nevertheless Mario’s research
problematizes this consensus. His undergraduate studies focused upon both Journalism and Education,
allowing him to graduate with two different BA degrees. Mario is currently volunteering with the Red
Cross in his Spanish hometown, managing the Facebook account and looking to establish links with the
local media to make the Red Cross’s work more visible: he has maintained his links with Keele and is part
of Under Construction’s Peer Reviewer pool.
DAWID KEDRA is an English Literature student at Keele University, currently writing his MA Dissertation
on the topic of the nineteenth-century portrayal of hair as an image in poetry. This article interrogates
some of the ideas of Dawid's research, specifically focusing on Emily Dickinson and her writing of the body
as an image, and how this enables a form of escapism through poetic creativity. He hopes to carry his
interest in the study of the Victorian poet Emily Dickinson to PhD level, Dawid's planned project involves
a comparative literary research study of Dickinson and the Polish poet Narcyza Zmichowska . Dawid is a
member of the Work in Progress committee, running the WIP blog, as well as co-organizer of the
upcoming Keele University HUMSS PG Conference.
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