Thread by @heavencrawley

Preparations well underway for start of our #UKRI #GCRF #SouthSouthMigration, Inequality and Development Hub. Around the world - from Haiti to Malaysia - more than 40 partners are busily packing their bags to come and join us at @cms_moop next week. Watch this space for updates!

Today’s rehearsal at Noyam Dance Institute with @alison_phipps @GTordzro for new performance to mark official start of #UKRI #GCRF #SouthSouthMigration, Inequality and Development Hub. Multilingual title is ‘Dzen Lungulungu Kpɔdomi’ meaning ‘Corridors’ in Gã Hausa and Ewegbe

Meanwhile the women of Dodowa are making tie-dyed fabrics reflecting Ghana’s long history of using fabric to beautify body and space. #UKRI #GCRF #SouthSouthMigration Hub puts creativity at its heart, opening up new spaces to understand migration from a human-centred perspective

In nearly 30 years of research I have never seen a more energised and empowering form of securing informed consent than this. The ‘consent song, devised by young people from Noyam Dance Institute, to replace the forms that so rarely engage those we work with in a meaningful way

So here we are, on the eve of our #SouthSouthMigration, Inequality and Development Hub officially coming into being. But the truth is that these beautiful people with whom I’ve debated, laughed and conspired for nearly two years have already become some of my closest friends

So this is it! The first meeting of the new #UKRI #GCRF South-South Migration Hub and the first step in our efforts to shift the ways in which migration in the #GlobalSouth is conceptualised and understood. Time to change how we see the world! Live tweeting #SouthSouthMigration

Didn’t intend to add to this particular thread but as we finished our work for #SouthSouthMigration Hub today the young people of Noyam African Dance Institute were rehearing for @cms_moop performance tomorrow night. Their energy and commitment reduced me to tears. Literally ❤️