• Relations between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries
• Food, agriculture and development
• Regional and international politics of Lusophone Africa
• Visual and sonic politics

• ‘In Poverty We Will Always Stay’: History of Famine and Contemporary Politics of Social In-distinction in Cabo Verde.” Food, Culture & Society 26(1): 63–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2021.1973719
• Island-Raised but Foreign-Made: Lived Experiences, Transnational Relationships, and Expressions of Womanhood among Cape Verdean Migrant Women in Greater Lisbon. Island Studies Journal 16(1): 101–114. https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.71
• Cape Verde: Society, Island Identity and Worldviews. Visual Ethnography 9(1): 170–185.
• Review of Party Systems in Young Democracies: Varieties of Institutionalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Edalina Rodrigues Sanches. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos 35(1):195–197. https://doi.org/10.4000/cea.2595

Kaian Lam is Assistant Professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration. Her field is international relations (relations between China and Portuguese-speaking countries). She has studied African societal and development challenges, with a focus on the insular Sahelian region. In one of her on-going projects, she approaches China-Angola relations from the perspective of young, educated Chinese expatriates, as she problematizes certain aspects of people-to-people engagement on the ground. Exploring the visual and sonic construction of the international, her other project investigates European Union interpretation and the interpreted word. Before joining the University of Macau, Kaian Lam worked for the Civil Service & Public Administration Bureau and taught at the Institute for Tourism Studies. On her other experiences: www.kaianlam.com