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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Led by Majid Komeili at Carleton University with the active support of Fatemeh Azadi and Jackie Lo at the National Research Council (NRC), this group works to enhance commercially available tools to address the specificities of forced migration so we can effectively publish results in the four gateway languages of Arabic, English, French and... More
Co-led by Liliana Jubilut at UniSantos in her capacity as Co-Chair of GAIN: the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network and Paula Banerjee at AIT/Bangkok in her capacity as lead of the Policy Working Group of the Network of IDRC Research Chairs, this group builds trust-based relationships with power brokers to create opportunities to... More
Led by Vicky McArthur at Carleton University and working closely with the LERRN Secretariat’s Communications Team, this group builds on our current social media presence and website to engage in social media campaigns to reach broad and diverse audiences.... More
Co-led by Megan Bradley at McGill University and James Milner at Carleton University, this group supports new strategies to support Open Access publications of articles in significant academic journals, titles in the McGill-Queen’s University Press Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series, a special issue in Forced Migration Review,... More
Co-led by Dina Taha at the Doha Institute and James Milner at Carleton University, this group supports translating knowledge into non-academic resources, such as policy briefs and plain-language research summaries for local, national and global policy actors; guidelines for practitioners; materials to influence and motivate wider publics; and... More
Friday, November 28, 2025
From 11 to 12 September 2025, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted a multi-day event marking the official launch of its new SSHRC Partnership Grant, Reimagining Responses to Forced Migration. The $2.5-million award—supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) alongside matching contributions... More
Friday, February 28, 2025
Para la versión en español, desplácese hasta la parte inferior de esta página. On February 08, 2025, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted a webinar to present and discuss the findings of a recently completed special research project on the Politics And Processes Of Refugee Leadership In The Global South, generously... More
Monday, February 19, 2024
The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted the “The Voices Rising: Refugee-Led Solutions” webinar on February 9, 2024. It served as an illuminating recap of the Voices Rising: Refugee-Led Solutions Conference 2023, a landmark event hosted in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. Organized by refugees themselves, this conference... More
Monday, July 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRmrZl9HuyE The Refugee Advisory Network of Canada (RAN Canada) organized its inaugural webinar titled "Meaningful Refugee Participation: Taking Stock and Charting the Way Forward" in celebration of World Refugee Day on June 20, 2023. With 53 participants from 10 different countries, the webinar explored the... More
Thursday, May 18, 2023
LERRN is pleased to share the following information on the next webinar from the Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-risk Scholars, Activists and Students (PPP)... More
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Available in عربي Français Español Event details and recordings available here. On Monday, April 24th, viewers across 29 countries attended the virtual book launch of The Right to Research anthology published by McGill-Queen’s University Press as part of their Forced Migration Studies Series. The conversation, moderated by Professor... More
Saturday, April 22, 2023
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