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School of Society and Environment – Department of Geography and Environmental Science
  1. School of Society and Environment – Department of Geography and Environmental Science
  2. Research
  3. Research projects
  4. Remitting for Resilience (R2)
  5. About the team

About the team

This is part of the wider R2 project team. The QMUL team are responsible for the UK-Zimbabwe workstream. The team is led by co-PI, Professor Kavita Datta, and co-applicant, Professor Tim Brown. This workstream includes the UK-Zimbabwe migration corridor and internal Zimbabwe migration corridors. Please click below for more information about each of our team members and each of our contact details. 

I am a Professor of Development Geography with research interests in migration, money and food. With a long-standing interest in migrant remittances, my research is interdisciplinary, international and collaborative. I regularly work with academic colleagues, policy makers and migrant and civic institutions.  

This project recognises the vital role of remittances in supporting households facing climate and food security challenges. We hope to highlight how these flows can be harnessed for equitable, gender-sensitive adaptation strategies. 

Email: k.datta@qmul.ac.uk 
Website: QMUL webpage

I am a Professor of Global Health Geographies whose main research interests lie with the productive and transformative potential of public health, especially in terms of understanding the forms of healthy and unhealthy subjectivity promoted and the kinds of interventions enacted. Currently, I am engaged in projects exploring the intersection between migration, mobility, and food and nutrition security in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. 

In this project, our research will focus on how remittances beyond financial support can improve health and well-being outcomes in communities confronting climate risks. 

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Social Development at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. My research focuses on urban livelihoods, migration, and food security, with particular attention to the experiences of internal and cross-border migrants in the Southern African region.

I examine how mobility, inequality, and governance shape access to food and basic services in urban contexts and within migration corridors and transit areas. In recent years, through the Remitting for Resilience (R2) Project and its partnership, I have also started exploring the climate change-migration-remittance-food security nexus in various migration corridors, including the Zimbabwe-South Africa, Mozambique-South Africa, Malawi-South Africa and internal corridors within Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Email: gtawodzera@uwc.ac.za 

 

My research interests are in food systems, particularly the intersection of food security, nutrition, and climate change. I hold a PhD in Public Management and Governance, specialising in food systems from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. I am currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of South Africa and previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Queen Mary University of London. In the Remitting for Resilience (R2) project, I am the Team Leader-Zimbabwe, and I am responsible for overall research management and coordination with national and local stakeholders.

Email: josetinarwo@gmail.com 

 

As a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Remitting for Resilience (R2) project, I will focus on the UK workstream to highlight diaspora experiences of remittances, food security, and climate-adaptation.

I am interested in questions relating to food security and migration. I hold a PhD in International Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science, specialising in humanitarian governance and displacement from South Sudan to Uganda. 

Email: charlotte.l.brown@qmul.ac.uk

 

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