Date: 02/10/2023
Introducing Our New Co-Editor Team for the SCDTP Blog
The SCDTP are excited to a welcome a new co-editor to our blog: Nasrat Sayed joins the team to replace Mark Kaye and work alongside Rachid Sekkai. We thank Mark for the great work he put in to making the blog so successful.
Nasrat is an ESRC-SCDTP doctoral researcher at the University of Brighton. His qualitative research focuses on the impacts of climate change on climate migrants in large southern cities, particularly in Karachi, Pakistan. He examines the nexus between climate-related migration, informality in urbanisation, and social policy, particularly social protection. Nasrat brings different research, writing and consultancy experience to combine with Rachid’s experience as a journalist for BBC Arabic, part of the BBC World Service.
Rachid is an ESRC-SCDTP doctoral researcher at the University of Portsmouth researching an outcast community of Algerians (the Harkis), who collaborated with the French army during the Algerian war of independence from 1954 to 1962. He intends to do this by conducting an ethnographic study of Harkis who remained in Algeria after the war, to ‘get up close and personal’ to their lived experiences, explore their perceptions of the ‘treason’ narrative, and investigate the ways in which they sought to reintegrate back into Algerian society.
The blog provides an opportunity for students and academic staff across the SCDTP to share their work, promote their projects, and provoke learning, discussion and debate.
If you would like to contribute or have a proposal you’d like to discuss or have any suggestions for the blog, please get in touch with scdtp scdtp@soton.ac.uk or with Nasrat or Rachid directly.
