Our team

  • Black and white portrait of Agnieszka. Sobocinska with shoulder-length hair, wearing a blazer and a patterned top.

    Agnieszka Sobocinska

    PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR
    King’s College London

    Agnieszka has responsibility for Work Package 1: Whole-of-lifecycle histories of Western, international and multilateral development projects in the Global South

  • Close-up black and white photo of Lorna Hards with short dark hair smiling slightly.

    Lorna Hards

    SENIOR PROJECTS MANAGER

    As Senior Project Manager for DEVHIST, I provide strategic and operational support to help the project deliver its research and impact ambitions. Prior to joining King's, I worked across the universities of Oxford, Birmingham, and Sussex, leading major UKRI and Research England-funded programmes, including ESRC Impact Acceleration Accounts and Sussex's institutional Research Culture programme.

    I am particularly motivated by creating the conditions for impactful research and supporting researchers to engage, collaborate, and connect their work with wider societal challenges. My PhD explored the role of public and socially engaged art practice in city development, reflecting a longstanding interest in the relationship between research, policy, communities, and social change.

  • A photo of Chiamaka Uzomba, smiling with a short haircut wearing sunglasses, hoop earrings, a dark blazer, and a white shirt, outdoors with trees and a fence in the background.

    Chiamaka Uzomba

    PHD STUDENT

    Chiamaka Uzomba is a PhD student in the Department of International Development at King's College London, whose research examines how communities and mid-level implementers in Nigeria experienced, understood, and responded to international family planning programming. Before joining King's, she spent over a decade working with pan-African and international development organisations, including Urgent Action Fund-Africa, ICAP at Columbia University, and the Population Council.

  • Black and white photo of Syarifah Aini, wearing a headscarf and traditional embroidered dress, smiling outdoors.

    Syarifah Aini

    PHD STUDENT

    Syarifah Aini is a PhD student in the History Department at King’s College London. She is currently working on a history of family planning project planning, implementation and reception in Indonesia during the New Order period.

  • A Black and white photo of Nono Sumampouw with glasses and wavy hair.

    Nono Sumampouw

    RESEARCH AFFILIATE (Indonesia)

    Nono Sumampouw is an anthropologist with over a decade of experience of research in Indonesia. He is working as a fieldwork partner with the DEVHIST project.