Boel McAteer

Researcher, Human Settlements

Boel’s research interests are focused on gender and refugee livelihoods, and particularly the operationalisation of concepts such as self-reliance and decent work in through humanitarian and development support in settings of long-term urban displacement.

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Boel is a researcher on the GCRF-ESRC project 'Protracted displacement in an urban world' – a large-scale comparative study examining wellbeing and livelihoods in cities and camps in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Jordan and Kenya. Her background includes international development, monitoring, evaluation and learning.

Expertise

Urban displacement; refugee self-reliance; gender and livelihoods support; social exclusion; international development.

Before IIED

Monitoring, evaluation and learning consultant for the UK government’s Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
Research consultant, University of Edinburgh

Education

PhD international development, University of Edinburgh
MSc human rights and international politics, University of Glasgow
BA Honours journalism, University of Stirling

Current work

Responding to protracted displacement in an urban world

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Boel McAteer

Current work

50 years linking local to global