Aida Hassan is an ESRC-funded PhD student at Queen Mary University of London, currently researching global health governance and the limits of state-centrism in postcolonial societies. Her research and teaching interests include global health politics, postcolonial/anti-colonial thought in international relations, and the securitisation of health. Outside of her academic work, she has written blogs and articles on securitisation and racial politics of belonging in the UK, with writings published in Tribune and The New Arab. She is working on a forthcoming book chapter alongside wonderful colleagues entitled “The Counternarratives of Black Muslim Women in British Academia”.