Senel recently completed his PhD in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research examines how discourses of ‘culture’ and ‘heritage’ are instrumentalised within frameworks that are anti-imperialist, yet simultaneously nationalist, patriarchal, heteronormative, and at times anti-human rights—both in the imperial metropole and the postcolony. His work has been published in a number of  venues, including Cultural Politics and the Handbook on Contemporary Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, Senel co-founded Hashtag Generation, an activist organisation working at the intersection of human rights and technology.