All essential operational policies, procedures and tools are now in place (and where appropriate translated into Arabic), including Data Protection Policies, Ethics Approval, Risk Assessments and Data Collection Tools and are regularly reviewed and updated according to environmental, political and/or legislative changes.
Data collection tools have been finalised and have been piloted during a series of ‘elite’ INGO and ‘local’ interviews in the UK, EU and Lebanon.
The project has been registered by the University’s Data Protection Officer, and Ethics Permission granted by the UCL Research Ethics Committee.
In 2017, 2018 and 2019 the PI undertook field-visits in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey to select appropriate field-sites.
In 2017, the PI recruited a full time Research Associate.
The PI has established local research teams in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. During field-visits, she has also conducted participant observation and interviews.
The RA has completed 82 semi-structured interviews and fieldwork in Lebanon
3 local researchers in Jordan, 2 in Lebanon, and 4 in Turkey are in place.
The PI provided inductions and training for local researchers re research tools and data protection, ethics and risk assessment policies and continues to provide the local research teams with regular supervisory support and reviews of their research deliverables.
Locally-based researchers have completed:
34 Research Diaries
11 Social Mapping documents
155 interviews with refugees;
270 interviews with community members;
70 interviews with local or national Southern organisations
10 interviews with state representatives or NGOs providing support to refugees.
25 Elite interviews with representatives of international NGO's or state led support for refugees
3 mid term reports
2 writing workshops
A Project and Communications Coordinator (in post for 4 years) coordinated project policies, team meetings, research trips and financial administration. In 2022, the PI convened a roundtable to explore the future of humanitarian practice and research. Transcripts of the event were published in Arabic, Spanish and English. The project website, which has 105 posts, including abridged versions of chapters from The Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations, co-edited by the PI and recordings and transcripts from the roundtable event in 2022. The website (www.southernresponses.org) has had +29,000 individual visitors and +41,000 views; @southernresp Twitter account has 1566 followers; the Facebook page has 425 followers. The PI and RA have attended and convened events in the UK, Europe, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, and the USA and have published several sole and co-authored chapters and journal articles.
