Humanitarian Hub Podcast - Episode 1, Dr. Suda Perera

Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 12:49 p.m.

b'In the first episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with Dr Suda Perera, Senior Teaching Fellow in Conflict and Migration at SOAS, about her recent article: \\u2018To Boldly Know: Knowledge, Peacekeeping and Remote Data-Gathering in Conflict Affected States\\u2019.\\n\\nDr Perera\\u2019s article covers the growth of remote technologies as a tool for data gathering in conflict affected areas. Using her own experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Dr Perera discusses how these new technologies are affecting both research and humanitarian action, by creating greater distance from intended beneficiaries.\\n\\nThis insightful and extremely relevant article is available online at:\\n\\nwww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108\\u202612.2017.1383566\\n\\nFor more information about SOAS\\u2019s new MSc programme: Humanitarian Action (Online) visit:\\n\\nwww.soas.ac.uk/development/progr\\u2026an-action-online/\\n\\nDr Perera\\u2019s new podcast: We Need to Talk About Dev, is also available now:\\n\\n@user-807880240\\n\\nPlease do visit our blog for more research, current news and debates about humanitarianism:\\n\\nblogs.soas.ac.uk/humanitarian-hub/'