Nishtha Sood is a journalist and researcher holding a degree in Politics and International Relations from SOAS University of London. Her work primarily focuses on Indian anti-terrorism legislation, linguistic rights, and contemporary issues in Punjab. She has extensively covered and documented grassroots movements in India, most notably the anti-CAA demonstrations and the farmers’ protests.

Jayden Singh is a current Master’s student and politics graduate, who’s research focuses on underexamined political and social issues, with a particular interest in the experiences of diaspora communities. Their work aims to broaden existing academic discussions in issues impacting diaspora populations, including questions of identity, belonging and representation. Through their research, Jayden aims to contribute a fresh perspective, from their own identity, highlighting diverse solutions to wider social and political challenges, whilst exploring diaspora communities, and the structures that shape their experiences.

Dr Kiran Sahota is a military historian exploring military history through a female lens. Kiran has created 3 national exhibitions on Indian servicemen and women in the world wars. Current exhibition ‘Forgotten India at 80: The Stories You Don’t Know’ explores the contributions made by Indian women and during the second world war that have been overlooked when it comes to mainstream war narratives. The research and projects have been exhibited at House of Lords, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, HMS President and The National Archives. Kiran is also the founder of Believe in Me CIC, a community organisation that empowers young people and women from marginalised backgrounds through education and heritage.

Avneet is a resourceful and dedicated penultimate-year undergraduate student with strong analytical, research and organisational skills, complemented by practical legal experience in migration law and a demonstrated commitment to professional development. She is experienced in client-focused legal research, preparing legal and visa documentation, managing supporting evidence and assisting with applications and review processes. Avneet has a proven ability to balance academic commitments with leadership, volunteering, event planning and engagement across university societies and professional organisations. She is a well-rounded and adaptable team player with a strong interest in pursuing a career in law.

Mukhtiar Singh is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers specialising in discrimination and whistleblowing law. He has appeared in a wide range of Employment Tribunal and appellate cases, including representing the successful claimant in Sethi v Elements Personnel Services Ltd, a widely reported religious discrimination case concerning non-recruitment for having a beard. Since 2018, Mukhtiar has partnered with the Sikh Education Council to run the Guru Nanak Social Mobility Scholarships, supporting aspiring professionals through funding, mentoring and work placements.

Ranjeet Singh is a chartered architect with his own practice in Hampshire. He is a researcher and commentator on Sikh faith, culture and heritage, whose first interaction with the Sikh Education Council took place over 20 years ago. He is a regular contributor to the Sikh Education Council’s projects. Recently his research has focused on Guru-period civic and religious architecture and urbanism.

Harwinder Singh is an editor and digital producer who explores identity, citizenship, and how people engage with democracy, especially in relation to social justice. His work stems from a foundation of interpreting Gurbani and its application in everyday life. Alongside his role as editor at naujawani, Harwinder Singh writes and edits for the Sikh Education Council quarterly, Sikh Sunehan, and contributes to the organisation’s range of publications. Having shared ideas and presented at an international level within the Sikh community, he is working on a project of significance researching the concept of time through a Gurmat lens.

Sukhman is a Politics and International Relations student at Royal Holloway, University of London and is passionate about leadership, community development and social impact. She is the President of the Royal Holloway Sikh Society and co-founder of the Nirbhau Nirvair Youth Collective, a youth-led organization empowering young Sikhs through educational programs and community events. Alongside her educational pursuits, she is passionate about organising community initiatives that preserve cultural heritage and unite individuals, as well as Sikh youth engagement and Punjabi language education. These experiences have allowed her to develop her skills in stakeholder engagement, project management and leadership. She is also very interested in organisational development, communications and public affairs.

Joey Belmondo Singh is an Afro-European social anthropologist with a Master’s degree from Stockholm University as well as a musician and racial justice activist. His research explores salvage capitalism, i.e., the conversion of capitalist value into non-capitalist collective value, as a pericapitalist mode of prefigurative politics through which people are able to generate resilience and, hence, liveable precarities in the age of the urban Capitalocene. His academic work has focused particularly on the Sikh langar tradition. In his master’s thesis, based on ethnographic fieldwork in Kuala Lumpur, he examines how the langar acts as a ‘prefigurative urban infrastructure of the commons’, transforming capitalism into ‘salvage capitalism’—a vehicle for sarbat da bhala (universal welfare)—where decommodified access to space, sociality, and food emerge from a system that exists primarily for the creation of private wealth.