Rachel McNally
Research Coordinator, UnborderED Knowledge
- Ph.D, Carleton University
Rachel McNally graduated in 2026 with her PhD in Political Science from Carleton University. Rachel joined LERRN in 2019. During her graduate studies, she worked as LERRN’s Project Editor-in-Chief, editing LERRN’s working papers series, facilitating LERRN’s research methods and ethics course, and analyzing the geographic representation of authors in academic journals in refugee studies. She also conducted a collaborative project with refugee researchers living in Kenya about the impact of resettlement for refugees living in Kenyan camps who are “not yet” or “never” resettled, which was published by Ethnic and Racial Studies and Routledge. Rachel currently works as Research Coordinator for UnborderED Knowledge, a SSHRC-funded Partnership Grant based at the University of Ottawa that promotes access to higher education and research opportunities for people with lived experiences of forced migration in Canada. In her own work, Rachel has researched the role of UNHCR in the resettlement of refugees with disabilities, Canadian refugee sponsorship programs, and the resettlement of refugees in small and rural communities across Canada.
