Touseef Yousuf Mir is a Faculty at the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is an award-winning political ethnographer, decolonial scholar and public engagement advocate. Building on a decade plus research and activism experience, his work sits at the intersection of comparative politics, conflict and development studies. Touseef remains committed to community engagement and social justice advocacy bridging university and community spaces through North-South and South-South collaborations.  He’s the founder/lead of the online Kashmiri educational platform – Pe’nd Online. He also serves as the trustee and governing council member of Development Studies Association, UK (DSA) as well as task-group member for decolonising knowledge for development initiative of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). Apart from other awards, Touseef recently received the Mary-Tasker Award for Excellence in Teaching (2024) and the Vice-Chancellor’s Outreach Award (2024) from the University of Bath.