Research Overview

The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement provides a University-wide interdisciplinary network on global movement. It brings together resources from humanities, social sciences, health and technologies, particulary on questions of refuge, migration, mobility and global movement in general. For the Centre's research activities/ interdisciplinary networks, see below.

Please do let us know if you have a research project that you would like us to link to by emailing us at info@humanmovement.cam.ac.uk

Our Research Expertise

Our research expertise includes:

architecture - borders - children - criminology - displacement - economics - education - emergencies - finance - health - history - hospitality - language - law - migrants - politics - refugees - shelter- smuggling - technologies - waiting

International Research Collaboration

Campo - Cambridge and Sciences-Po

Research Teasers

CEDG

Cambridge Emergency and Displacement Group (CEDG)

Convenor: Madeleine Arnot (Education) This interdisciplinary group addresses brings together existing research groups, projects and individuals working on displacement, emergency relief, on refugee camps and holding centres globally, particularly but not only in the Global South. It aims to draw upon extensive research...

GME

Global Mobility Economy

Convenors: Susan L. Robertson (Education) and Eva Hartmann (Education) This programme of research explores the structural, ideational, social and geo-political dynamics and mechanisms shaping the diverse projects and movements that constitute the global mobility economy. More...

Hospitality, Storytelling and Integration in a Mobile World

Storytelling, Hospitality, Community Co-Convenors: Prof Jenny Mander and Dr William O’Reilly Migration, tourism and other patterns of mobility and immobility and their impact on relations between people and place. More ...

Integration, Communities and Criminal Networks

Convenors: Paolo Campana (Criminology), Loraine Gelsthorpe (Criminology) , Maria Abreu (Land Economy) , Alice Hutchings (Computer Lab) This programme of research explores the structure and mechanisms underpinning migration flows – both regular and irregular – and the integration of migrants into hosting communities. This...

Language, Heritage and Migration

Convenor: Yongcan Liu (Education) This programme seeks to establish a new field of interdisciplinary scholarship which brings together three university initiatives focusing on language sciences, heritage research and migration research. More...

Movement and Waiting

Convenor: William O’Reilly (Faculty of History) Barriers, fences and borders in Europe force many prospective migrants to lead lives in suspension, a state of waiting, not knowing when the moment of departure will be, if it will ever arrive. Waiting determines the everyday lives of many refugees and migrants, awaiting...

Cambridge refugee hub

Cambridge Refugee Hub (CRH) Cambridge R efugee Hub advances research, practice and policy at the University of Cambridge. Convenor: Tugba Basaran The Cambridge refugee hub was established in 2021 to create awareness and solidarity with refugees, and to stand with refugees as a Cambridge community...