
Wellbeing in refugee camps: life inside a bottle
Blog, 06 December 2022
Boel’s research interests are focused on gender and refugee livelihoods, and particularly the operationalisation of concepts such as self-reliance and decent work in through humanitarian and development support in settings of long-term urban displacement.
Boel is a researcher on the GCRF-ESRC project 'Protracted displacement in an urban world' – a large-scale comparative study examining wellbeing and livelihoods in cities and camps in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Jordan and Kenya. Her background includes international development, monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Urban displacement; refugee self-reliance; gender and livelihoods support; social exclusion; international development.
Education
Responding to protracted displacement in an urban world