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- (2024-5) Boarders and Barriers
- (2024-5) Roll for Resettlement: The Game of Chance
- (2022-2023) Aid as a way to govern people in a refugee camp
- (2022-2023) The Road to Resettlement
- (2021-2022) Deconstructing the Refugee: Understanding both the biological and the social lives of refugees
- (2021-2022) Bare Life in relation to child refugees
- (2020-2021) How has the climate crisis affected refugees and asylum seekers?
- (2020-2021) How has Brexit affected family reunification policy in the UK?
- (2019-2020) How does the Hostile Environment prevent refugees and asylum seekers from creating a fully integrated social life in the UK, and how is this resisted?
- (2019-2020) Challenges for Female Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- (2018-9) An anthropological perspective on the variations of refugee suffering that sheds light onto the required multiplicity of humanitarian aid
- (2018-9) Refugee status: The interdependence of production and destruction
- (2017-8) Anthropological perspectives on refugee children
- (2017-8) Why people want refugee status
- (2016-7) Making the familiar unfamiliar
- (2016-7) Beyond the label of ‘refugees’
- Humanitarianism in crisis situations
- (2019-2020) How do anthropological studies on the role of compassion, crisis and kinship in humanitarian work help us to understand the Red Cross family tracing service as a form of governance?
- (2019-2020) How anthropological perspectives can improve family tracing and reunification through broadening our understanding of kinship
- (2018-9) Technologies in crises: Politics of inequality or empowerment?
- (2018-9) To what extent can neutrality prevail in a state of crisis?
- (2017-8) How can an anthropological study of kinship within the context of conflict reveal how different families cope with crisis situations?
- (2017-8) The impact of armed conflict on kinship, identity and family separation
- (2016-7) Disaster capitalism: An investigation of the NHS crisis
- (2016-7) Immediate humanitarian concerns and long-term ethnographies
- Rethinking development
- (2024-5) GovernMENTAL
- (2024-5) Cards Against Humanitarianism
- (2022-2023) How the pervasiveness of the HIV treatment regime has reinforced HIV stigmatisation in African societies
- (2022-2023) Exploring and Rethinking the Housing and Homelessness Crisis in Manchester
- (2021-2022) Rethinking development: intentions, outcomes, and recipient agency
- (2021-2022) Rethinking Development & Female Education Lesson Plan
- (2020-2021) How COVID has affected Sudan’s insecurity
- (2020-2021) Rethinking Chinese Development Projects in Africa
- (2019-2020) Rethinking Philanthropy Within Development
- (2019-2020) Corporate Philanthropy and its ulterior motives
- (2018-9) Can faith-based organisations offer a different way of development?
- (2018-9) Rethinking the semantics of development
- (2017-8) Linking development expertise with local lived experience
- (2017-8) The (failing) promise of CSR to deliver development
- (2016-7) Two contrasting anthropological approaches to development
- (2016-7) Unintended consequences?: Power, politics and cultural relativism
- Beyond the Developing World
- (2024-5) Monopoly for Refugees
- (2024-5) Pink Cards and Papercuts
- (2022-2023) A Crisis of Categorisation: The Evolving Portrayals and Perceptions of Displaced People Over the Course of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis
- (2022-2023) How the treatment of refugees beyond the developing world reduces individuals to a state of liminal bare life
- (2021-2022) ‘Crisis’ and the Unintended Consequences of Aid
- (2021-2022) Compassion Beyond the Developing World
- (2020-2021) Displacement in Lockdown
- (2019-2020) Not Hired, On-Boarded: Precarious Employment and Shaping the Neoliberal Subject
- (2019-2020) How does an anthropological perspective help us to understand the role of development in Moss Side?
- (2018-9) How can anthropological perspectives help us understand the Grenfell Tower fire as a humanitarian issue?
- (2018-9) Responsibility of care: who is responsible for the most vulnerable?
- (2017-8) Beyond the developing world: Anthropological perspectives on foodbanks
- (2017-8) How can we understand poverty beyond the developing world?
- (2016-7) Beyond the binary of ‘developed’ and ‘developing’
- (2016-7) Dialogue through anthropological approaches
- Professions of ‘doing good’
- (2024-5) The Complexities of Being an Aid Worker
- (2024-5) Morally Speaking…
- (2022-2023) Hegemonic Representations and Aid Workers
- (2022-2023) Between a rock and a hard place: the ways in which refugees and aid workers alike navigate agency and identity
- (2021-2022) The Personal Experiences of Aid Work
- (2021-2022) Immaterial labour in ‘Aidland’
- (2020-2021) The Neoliberal discourse driving compassion fatigue in the NHS
- (2020-2021) The consequences of moral and expert authority: obstetric racism
- (2019-2020) ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’: a discussion of the importance of intention in volunteering
- (2019-2020) Negotiating the consequences of ‘Doing Good’: How anthropological perspectives inform Student Development and Community Engagement initiatives at the University of Manchester
- (2018-9) Citizens of aidland: Exploring the subjectivity of aid workers in the field
- (2018-9) Disparities in pay amongst foreign and local aid workers
- (2017-8) Professions of ‘doing good’: The dangers of voluntourism
- (2017-8) To what extent is it useful to explore ‘doing good’ through the lens of performativity?
- (2016-7) Questioning representations
- (2016-7) The moral labour of aid work
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