Senel is a final year PhD Researcher at the LSE Department of Gender Studies. His research is interested in understanding how discourses on ‘culture’ and ‘heritage’ are instrumentalised in frameworks that are anti-imperialist, but also nationalist, patriarchal, heteronormative and anti-human rights in the postcolony. Senel is the Research Coordinator for the AHRC Project on Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions. His research has appeared in the Cultural Politics Journal and is set to appear in the upcoming Handbook on Contemporary Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, Senel co-founded an activist organisation called Hashtag Generation which works in the intersections of human rights and technology.

Supervisory team: Prof Clare Hemmings and Dr Sadie Wearing