Whether because of covid lockdown, ethics concerns, unexpected conflicts, FCDO travel restrictions, or research clearance in the field, research students seem to increasingly be facing challenges in undertaking field work. Often these require students to consider changes to their research project, which presents unexpected challenges for supervisors. After supervising a couple of dozen PhDs with…

The foreign policy implications of sending refugees to Rwanda I wrote [most of] this back in March. Seems to still hold true. Rwanda’a agency being more demonstrated every day. Rwanda is set to benefit more than anyone else from the UK’s new refugee policy.  Refugees certainly won’t.  And the UK is going to face legal hurdles and…