Our research
Conflict, migration and humanitarian action is a key research area of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) and the Department of Social & Policy Sciences as a whole. This research confronts and seeks principled responses to the violence borne of conflicting interests and competing visions of development. This entails seeking better understanding of the drivers of conflict, but also individual and collective responses to them, paying particular attention to those who are most vulnerable.
Our research contributes to the following key themes:
- the drivers of precarity and marginality
- how marginalised groups experience conflict
- humanitarian response and migration
- the impact of conflict and migration on social and political mobilisation
- the intersections between humanitarian response, conflict prevention and social policy
- the role of civil society in responding to conflict.
Our current projects
- Community responses to COVID-19 in Gaza Strip refugee camps
- Building inclusive civil societies with, and for, young people in five post-conflict countries
- Healthy housing for the displaced
- Social protection and sustainable peace in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Building a new welfare-centered politics
Our past projects
- Tackling the causes for flight? The changing features and effects of German refugee policy in Jordan
- Living on the margins: Using literary comics to understand the role of borderland brokers in post-war transitions
- Borderlands, brokers and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka and Nepal: War to peace transitions viewed from the margins
- States of emergency: Citizenship in times of crisis in Sierra Leone
- Healthy housing for refugees
- Reconceptualising conflict and peacebuilding: new ideas and actors in a changing world
Researchers
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- Dr Alinka Gearon
- Dr Emma Carmel
- Professor Rachel Forrester-Jones
- Dr Jason Hart
- Dr Neil Howard
- Dr Rana Jawad
- Dr Katharina Lenner
- Professor Roy Maconachie
- Dr Pete Manning
- Dr Oliver Walton