PAST
Research Fellow
School of Geography
University of Leeds
June 2020 – April 2022
The ESRC funded project examines how financial and digital technologies are transforming refugee governance. Debit cards have radically changed humanitarian aid and post-disaster relief, allowing both providers and recipients greater flexibility in providing for basic needs. Tech start-ups and volunteer cartographers have produced a range of apps, maps and digital information hubs for refugees seeking local information. Financial and digital technologies allow people to move, live and work in new ways and yet there is little research asking how digital technologies and debit cards change relationships between humanitarian organisations, aid workers, refugees and recipients, new private sector actors and government agencies.
Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Helsinki
Honorary Fellow
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)