Fellowship at MIASA

I just got back to the UK after spending 3 months in Accra as a Junior Fellow of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA). It was both a whirlwind trip during which I tried to cram in as much work (and play) as I could, and a very peaceful and quiet period of reflection and writing.

I was able to work on the project started during my postdoc at UCT, which was--like many things-- interrupted by the pandemic in early 2020. I've called it 'Christianity and Feminism in World YWCA Discourse: Perspectives from Accra and Johannesburg', but now I want to expand the scope and include perspectives from elsewhere too. My thinking was enriched and supported by other fellows--now friends--and I look forward to hopefully working with them in the future.

I'm still working on a couple of articles coming out of the project, but for now I'm happy to share a reflective blog post I wrote for my research centre at Brunel: 'Travelling with care? Transnational mobility and research during Covid-19.' Soon I will be publishing a post on MIASA's hypotheses blog about my current research.

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