Deena Dajani

International Institute for Environment and Development

Dr. Deena Dajani has a PhD in social sciences from Loughborough University and works as a researcher on Human Settlements at the International Institute for Environment and Development. She has conducted ethnographic and participatory research with refugee and migrant populations in East Africa, Europe and the Middle East, and worked on multi-disciplinary projects building partnerships with civil society to work towards more inclusive urban spaces. Amongst other research projects, Dr. Deena Dajani 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. She is co-investigator on the British Academy project ‘Rethinking humanitarian aid for refugees as investment in urban water and sanitation’, a multidisciplinary project that brings together engineers and social scientists to investigate water technologies alongside the social relationships around water, including gender relationships and refugee-host relationships.