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Scotland study group mini conference programme

The DSA Scotland Study Group has announced its lineup for the forthcoming mini conference and are keen to receive offers of presentations from established international development researchers based in Scotland, and from doctoral research students based in Scotland.

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Friday, 6 September 2024: 9.30 am to 5.00 pm
University of the West of Scotland (UWS), Paisley Campus

DSA Scotland with CAREED (Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development) and PCRC (Protracted Crisis Research Centre). University of the West of Scotland Research Conference

Convenors: Michael Tribe [email protected]; Mozammel Huq [email protected]; Dina Nziku [email protected]; Ben Hunter [email protected]> and Graeme Young [email protected]

Provisional programme:

Assemble – Coffee/Tea/Biscuits (9.30 – 10.00 am)

Opening Session: Presentations by Established Researchers – 10.00 – 11.30 am

  • Dr Vasilios Stouraitis (Glasgow Caledonian Univ) – Exploring the effect of the meso-context on entrepreneurship education in the global south: a six-country study of entrepreneurial ecosystems
  • Dr Benjamin Hunter (Glasgow Univ) – Migration, Markets and Intermediaries: Case Studies from the Healthcare Sector
  • Dr Dina Nziku (Univ of the W. of Scotland) and Dr Chanel Bikorimana (Glasgow Cale. Univ) – One Size Does Not Fit All: Forcibly Displaced Refugee Women Entrepreneurs in Glasgow

Second Session: Presentations by Doctoral Research Students – 11.30 am – 1.00 pm

  • Raheema Chunara (Glasgow Univ) – Community and individual preferences for a new water infrastructure for non-drinking activities in a schistosomiasis endemic area
  • Madushani Gunathilake (Glasgow Univ) – Constructing accountability through sustainable development: Evidence from a Sri Lankan Rural Development Project
  • One Pusumane (Edinburgh Univ) – title to be confirmed

Lunch and Networking: 1.00 – 2.00 pm

Principal Session: Migration and the Global South – 2.00 to 4.00 pm

  • Keynote Speaker – Tanja Bastia (Manchester University) Professor Tanja Bastia (Manchester University, Global Development Institute) – Migration, ageing and transnational care: a view from the Global South (live video presentation – with facility for questions / discussion) after which there will be a short break
  • Amrit Virk (Edinburgh University) – International Migration and the UK NHS
  • Mozammel Huq (Strathclyde University) – Rohingyas in Bangladesh: case of forced migration

4.00 – 5.00 pm: Overall Discussion and Governance of the DSA Scotland
with Tea/Coffee and Networking

Poster submission:

  • Harshita Sinha (LSE) – Attempted claim making: informal migrant workers’ mediated pathway to welfare
  • Matthew Henaghan (Glasgow Univ) – The changing role of organised migration in state development strategies across Central Asian states.