| Henna Aiman | PhD Researcher | World politics and popular culture, gender and security, feminist IR and critical non-traditional security |
| Stanislaus Risadi Apresian | PhD Researcher | Climate Change Adaptation; International Environmental Politics; Climate Governance; The Politics of Palm Oil; Indonesia |
| Alisha Ault | PhD Researcher | Justice & just transitions; Critical minerals & energy transition minerals; Temporality & futures; Participatory approaches & transformative research; Decoloniality |
| Ruth Bookbinder | PhD Researcher | African Politics; South Africa; Rent seeking; Patronage and Whistle-blowing |
| Francesca Chapman | PhD Researcher | (Global) China; The politics of international development, climate change and the environment; Water and energy governance |
| Jekoniya Chitereka | PhD Researcher | African development politics ;Political economy of science, technology, and innovation ; Space science diplomacy, policy, and governance ;Population, health, and development |
| Annabelle Dawson | CGD Ambassador / PhD Researcher | Energy and environmental politics |
| Estefania Dominguez | PhD Researcher | War on drugs; Colombia; Mexico; Human rights violations; Distributive injustice |
| Harriet Green | PhD Researcher | Universal Health Coverage, global financing mechanisms for health |
| Jinru Huang | PhD Researcher | Education Development; Chinese Politics; International Relations |
| Leonie Hyde-Smith | PhD Researcher (in Civil Engineering) | Climate resilient sanitation |
| Mohammad Didarul Islam | PhD Researcher | Countering Violent Extremism Policy, Terrorism, Religion and Politics, Global Development |
| Sara Kaizuka | PhD Researcher | UK Regional Development, European Cohesion Policy, UK Politics, Impacts of Brexit in Regional Development. |
| James Keeton | PhD Researcher | Political Imperatives of Japanese ODA to North Korea: Public-Private Cooperation |
| Keya Khandaker | PhD Researcher | ‘Leaving No Girl Behind’? Interrogating Gender Norms and Adolescent Agency in Pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) |
| Elizabeth McGowan | PhD Researcher | International Development, Climate Change, Water Governance, Pacific Studies, Decolonising and Feminist Methodologies, Deconstructing the State, Gender Studies, International Politics of the Asia-Pacific |
| Vivian Nsiah | PhD Researcher | Beyond the White Western Gaze of the "Poor African Girl": Collaborative Exploration of Water Governance in Northern Ghana |
| Temitayo Isaac Odeyemi | PhD Researcher | Comparative legislatures, Public engagement, Digital governance, Police accountability, Climate governance, Youth and politics |
| Rachel Parker | CGD Ambassador / PGR in International Development | Urban Elite, Informality and Inequality |
| Ramya Sheni | PhD Researcher | Peace Economies; Politics of Peacebuilding and Patronage in Nigeria. |
| Jack Simpson | PhD Researcher | The Role of the City in Expanding and Preserving Political Autonomy: A Capability Theory |
| Shivani Singhal | PhD Researcher (GCRF Water Security Hub) | Political ecology, hydropolitics, India, Water Security |
| Laura Smith | PhD Researcher | Uganda; Oil exploration; Civil society organisations; International oil companies as private governance actors. |
| Ruth Sylvester | PhD Researcher | A decolonial feminist perspective on gender programming in the WASH sector |
| Fatimah Abba Wakilbe | PhD Researcher (with LU Business School) | Peacebuilding, Northern Nigeria, Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation |
| Sabrina White | PhD Researcher | Gender; Peacekeeping; Transitional Justice |
| Dewa Ayu Putu Eva Wishanti | PhD Researcher | Water Governance; Sanitation; Water Privatisation; Indonesia |
| Mel Yan | PhD Researcher | Food sovereignty; food security; neoliberal food system; Philippines |
| Luchao Yao | PhD Researcher | Political Ecology; water governance; water politics; risk; rural water; everyday politics; China |
| Mariam Zaqout | PhD Researcher (in Civil Engineering) | Sanitation, Service characteristics, Bangladesh, Institutional capacity analysis |