Our Projects
Fire Justice Hub
We are a group of researchers and practitioners who have been working together in different ways on the issue of fire safety in informal settlements and humanitarian settings since 2014. We connected through work in Lebanon, South Africa and Macedonia., and explore fire safety through critically engaged methodologies that foreground the ethics of research, impact and engagement.
The Fire Justice Hub is an initiative supported by the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. It aims to share knowledge and help to connect people who hold and practice similar values and principles in fire research.
Gendering Fire Risk Education in Humanitarian Settings
This research tackled the issue of fire safety education in humanitarian settings and informal settlements. Focused on tented and urban camps in Lebanon, Helen’s background in education and critical pedagogy was central to interrogating knowledge, power and gender in the fire safety world. Creative and participatory methods were key to reimagining fire safety education and developing a framework for fire justice along with Laura.
This project was funded by the British Academy and supported by Save the Children Lebanon.
Spotlight on methods: Photovoice
This research tackled the issue of fire safety education in humanitarian settings and informal settlements. Focused on tented and urban camps in Lebanon, Helen’s background in education and critical pedagogy was central to interrogating knowledge, power and gender in the fire safety world. Creative and participatory methods were key to reimagining fire safety education and developing a framework for fire justice along with Laura.
This project was funded by the British Academy and supported by Save the Children Lebanon.
Gender Participation in the volunteer fire service
We are working with a women’s NGO in North Macedonia, the volunteer fire service and Operation Florian to explore pathways to gender participation in the volunteer fire service. A series of workshops with women across the country identified challenges and opportunities for greater inclusion and diversity.
Project funded by the British Embassy in Macedonia and Operation Florian.
Learning and Changemaking
Understanding the possibilities for change that come from working collectively is a key area of interest at Looped Learning. Helen’s Fellowship enabled a collaboration with One World Together, a social enterprise that reimagines charitable giving in the global development sector. The research uses various critical and arts-based methods to explore how changemakers change through their connections made with other changemakers and social impact organisations.
Helen’s Simon Industrial Fellowship was funded by the University of Manchester.
Exploring Global Citizenship Education
This work was funded by the UKRI Impact Accelerator Account.
Future Imaginings with
Laura’s doctoral research used various critical participatory methods to explore fire risk creation in Nairobi’s informal settlements. This has led to her current position as Research Fellow at the University of Northumbria where she continues to look at gender and risk, including how these intersect with different dimensions of ‘volunteering’
Spotlight on Methods: Visual Mapping
In her doctoral research, Laura used various critical participatory methods to explore fire risk creation in Nairobi’s informal settlements. This has led to her current position as Research Fellow at the University of Northumbria where she continues to look at gender and risk, including how these intersect with different dimensions of volunteering.
Laura was awarded a CASE studentship (ESRC) with support from Operation Florian.
Museums as Spaces of Hope and Imagination
This research tackled the issue of fire safety education in humanitarian settings and informal settlements. Focused on tented and urban camps in Lebanon, Helen’s background in education and critical pedagogy was central to interrogating knowledge, power and gender in the fire safety world. Creative and participatory methods were key to reimagining fire safety education and developing a framework for fire justice along with Laura.
This project was funded by the British Academy and supported by Save the Children Lebanon.