Marie Curie Initial Training Network (CoHaB)
The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies has been part of a successful bid for funding for a transdisciplinary research project entitled ‘Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging’ (CoHaB). The project, in collaboration with several other international institutions including Munster, Mumbai, Stockholm, Oxford and Northampton, has been awarded a £3.2 million grant from the Marie Curie Initial Training Network. The Marie Curie awards are highly competitive. Out of hundreds of applications only 7 were ultimately successful this year.
The network of institutions will train doctoral and post doctoral researchers, and run a series of workshops and conferences, as well as producing edited volumes and web resources. The researchers will receive their training in both a host institution and the other universities involved, enabling those working on a series of projects under the theme of ‘home and belonging’ to benefit from an association of international expertise on migration and diaspora. The ethos of the project lies in promoting dialogue across disciplines, encouraging collaborative research, and pushing the boundaries of migration scholarship at a time when the movement of people across the globe provides new challenges for academics and migration practitioners alike. The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies was a ‘natural fit’ for the project, having promoted transdisciplinary dialogue on migration since its inception, and providing a home for the numerous migration scholars across the disciplines we are now fortunate to have at SOAS.
