All of our projects incorporate the Ethical Global Research Toolkit.
FIELD Network
This project aims to provide Food security Intelligence and Evidence-based interventions for sustainable Local Development in support of One Health and Planetary Health resilience.
Recycling Ruins
The project explores how disasters spur value creation in global recycling and construction, and how refugee/migrants’ are positioned in supply chains.
Aesthetics of One Health
The project explores aesthetic values, practices and patterns underpinning affective responses to conflict and food insecurity in Syria - linking themes of scarcity, security and sustainable development through the human experience.
Refugee Labour Under Lockdown
This project explores how COVID-19 has reshaped Syrian farmworkers’ economic hardship, freedom of movement, and relationships of dependency with agricultural middlemen and employers in northern Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.
WaterFOre
This project seeks to address water poverty and a lack of safe, clean water for drinking, sanitation, and irrigation in Syria
SyrianFoodFutures
This project aims to improve mobilisation of local cultural and technical knowledge and experience so that it can be effectively incorporated into socio-economic development and reconstruction programmes to ensure a successful transition away from humanitarian aid to longer-term contingency planning for food security.
From the Field
This project explores the impact of COVID-19 and corresponding risk mitigation strategies (border closures, movement restrictions) on the lives and livelihoods of displaced Syrians living in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraqi Kurdistan and northern Syria.
FIELD SONGS
This project explores the following question: How can the intangible cultural heritage of displaced Syrian agricultural communities, notably traditional harvesting songs, become the basis of collective actions for an innovative approach to sustainable development in Middle Eastern host countries and Syria?
