Beyond self-reliance: recognising the relationships that matter for urban refugees
Insight, 07 November 2017
William Monteith
Lecturer in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Formerly a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group in 2017
Expertise
- Inclusive urban development
- Informal employment and 'decent work'
- Ethnographic and participatory research
- The social and cultural life of African cities
Before IIED
- PhD in International Development at the University of East Anglia (UEA)
- Research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
- Project manager at Pacific Dialogue in the Fiji Islands
Current work
- Gender, work and welfare in the urban informal sector
- Refugee and IDP participation in urban markets in Africa
- Urban poverty reduction in South Asia
