Dr Michael Collins is an associate professor of history at UCL. He was awarded his doctorate by the University of Oxford in 2009, after studying for degrees in political science at the London School of Economics and history at Cambridge University. He has published on the political thought of Rabindranath Tagore; on nationalism and decolonisation; on the rise and fall of federations in the British Empire; and on the significance of cricket in terms of imperial culture and post-imperial identity. He has been a permanent member of the UCL History staff since 2010. From 2021-2024 he was a commissioner on the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC).