Dr Rishika Mukhopadhyay is a human geographer whose interdisciplinary research spans Critical Heritage Studies, Southern Urbanism, and the Craft Economy, grounded in postcolonial and decolonial perspectives. Her work is organized around two key strands: the meaning, production, and politics of living heritage, including craft practices, sacred sites, and sensory heritage ; community-based creative craft economies in postindustrial and postcolonial contexts.

Rishika employs art exhibitions as a mode of public engagement, translating academic research into accessible, experiential formats. She is currently working on two projects on nationalist urbanism and transnational diasporic heritage, supported by the British Academy and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO.

Dr Jen Dickinson is Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. She is a political geographer whose research and writing focuses on diasporic politics and mobilisation, the contributions of diasporas to development, and diasporic civic society. Her current work examines these dynamics in the context of the global Rwandese and Indian diasporas. Her work has received research funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy and the European Union. Policy engagement is central to much of her work, and she has consulted for government, third-sector, international organisations and diaspora organisations on diaspora outreach and engagement.

Dr Saeed Ahmad is a historian and Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India. His work examines the material and social production of Delhi through questions of migration, infrastructure, conflict, and memory. Saeed received his PhD from the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Goettingen, prior to which he was based at the Department of History, University of Delhi.

Saeed is currently preparing a book manuscript based on Delhi's long twentieth century through a historical sociology of a Delhi neighbourhood from c. 1922-2022. It focuses on the shifting caste, class, spatial, and religious conjunctions that affect state legibility, civic, and political access to craft space, community, and belonging in the neighbourhood and the city. Some of this research has appeared in Modern Asian Studies and South Asia.

He is also part of a new collaborative transdisciplinary British Academy funded project with Rishika Mukhopadhyay and Jen Dickinson (University of Southampton), that addresses questions of sacred urbanism, heritage and diaspora worlding.