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Dr Glenda Garelli

Dr Glenda Garelli

  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Areas of expertise: migration and refugee issues; border studies; critical human geography; urban planning.
  • Email: G.Garelli@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: 10.106

Profile

Funded Research

GLiTCH, ESRC Standard Grant 2020-2022 

This project examines how financial and digital technologies are transforming refugee governance. Debit cards have radically changed humanitarian aid and post-disaster relief, allowing both providers and recipients greater flexibility in providing for basic needs. Tech start-ups and volunteer cartographers have produced a range of apps, maps and digital information hubs for refugees seeking local information. Financial and digital technologies allow people to move, live and work in new ways and yet there is little research asking how digital technologies and debit cards change relationships between humanitarian organisations, aid workers, refugees and recipients, new private sector actors and government agencies.

Research Team: Glenda Garelli, Nadine Hassouneh, Lauren Martin (PI), Aila Spathopolou, Martina Tazzioli, Hanna Ruszczyk

 

Digital Technologies and Refugee Governance in Greece, Leverhulme/British Academy, 2018-2019

 

Responsibilities

  • Widening participation officer
  • Library representative
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

  • PhD, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago
  • MUPPP, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago
  • BA (Hons), Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Milano

Student education

PhD Supervision

I welcome PhD applications in the following areas:

  • Migration with an emphasis on forced migration and illegalized forms of mobility;
  • Visual representations of spatial conflicts;
  • Geopolitics with an emphasis on border regimes and humanitarianism;
  • Critical development studies with a focus on migration and financial issues .    

Research groups and institutes

  • Social Justice, Cities, Citizenship
<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>
Projects
    <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1885-fully-funded-phd-opportunity-for-forced-migrants-to-the-uk-(university-of-leeds,-erc-adg-project-migmobs-2024-2028)">Fully funded PhD opportunity for forced migrants to the UK (University of Leeds, ERC AdG Project MIGMOBS 2024-2028)</a></li>