This is the section of our site that reports and shares knowledge and resources on the UKRI GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub (MIDEQ), led by Heaven Crawley of Coventry University, of which the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D is a partner. Our interdisciplinary work focuses at the interface between technology, inequality and migration (TIM), and is led by Prof. G. “Hari” Harindranath, supported by Tim Unwin, and Dr. Maria Rosa Lorini (PostDoc)
Updates on our latest work in Nepal and South Africa
For the latest updates on our activities facilitating migrants and tech developers craft interventions together to improve the lives of migrants in Nepal and South Africa do see the following links:
- Working with migrants and migrant organisations in Nepal
- Initial migrant videos from South Africa
- Advanced migrant videos from South Africa
- Migrant perspectives on video training in South Africa
Links about our work
The following links also provide more information about our work:
- Updates on our work will be posted on our blog
- Please see this post for an announcement of the UKRI GCRF award. Our first inception meeting was held in Ghana from 11th-15th February 2019, and our second Executive Group meeting was held in Nairobi on 23-24 September 2019. Following the COVID pandemic that restricted travel, we then also participated in the full MIDEQ meeting in Nepal in September 2022.
- Where and how we are working
- Click on this link to see more about the migration routes that provide the focus for the Hub’s work, and how our work stream fits into these. Based on our first three years of research and the relationships established with the country leads, we subsequently chose to focus our efforts primarily in Nepal and South Africa.
- Access to resources
- See here for a short introduction to some of the more interesting literature in this field.
- For a fuller list of relevant references with links to access them see our page on Interesting literature on digital tech and migration between countries in Africa, South and South-east Asia, and Latin America
- Postgraduate and post-doctoral activities:
- We are eager to encourage applications for PhD research associated with this project, and to support candidates in applying for relevant international grants to cover fees and maintenance (entry requirements). Please use our contact form to get in touch.
- Summary of our work on Royal Holloway, University of London’s News and Events: Get to know…GCRF and Professor G. Hari Harindranath and Professor Tim Unwin
Following our initial inception meeting in Accra in February 2019 (photo above), the Hub held a second major meeting in Nairobi in September-October 2019 which included substantial amounts of training for all of our researchers. Glimpses of some of the activities are shown below:
This work has been funded by the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) [Grant Reference: ES/S007415/1]
Latest update 29 March 2023
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