Personal statement
I re-joined the Department of Human Resource Management at Strathclyde after spending several years linking participative research and education methods towards community transformation, labour organisation and environmental management. My research has linked social and physical sciences through Geography and Sociology and currently explores migration and worker resistance in relation to corporate agroenergy monoculture, and investigates socially committed,integrated food and energy production along with engineering scientists and rural workers in Brazil and Scotland.
Teaching
I have taught on the Department's undergraduate course and the Masters in International Human Resource Management over the last two years. I have also taught extensively in community education settings and on the Sustainable Communities course with Queen's University Belfast
Professional activities
- Public Hearings with migrant representatives
- Organiser
- 2/3/2021
- Public Hearings with migrant representatives
- Organiser
- 23/2/2021
- Seminar about the rights of children and adolescents for migrant organisations
- Organiser
- 9/12/2020
- Trainning For Multipliers
- Organiser
- 8/12/2020
- Putting the university to work: technology-mediated extraction of land and labour from UK universities
- Speaker
- 1/12/2020
- Trabalho Migrante: From research to Action in the pandemic
- Organiser
- 25/6/2020
More professional activities
Projects
- UKRI CoA Covid extension
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator)
- UKRI sponsored extension of projects affected by Covid-19
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- Self-demarcation and scientific protection against pandemic, illegal logging and mining in Brazil's Amazon
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator)
- 15-Jan-2020 - 15-Jan-2022
- Social impacts, exposure and resilience to the pandemic COVID-19 between Munduruku indigenous and traditional communities in the Brazilian Amazon
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Torres, Mauricio (Co-investigator)
- COVID-19 emergency response towards food security, territorial security and health provision
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2020
- Pesticide, labour and public health
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Briken, Kendra (Co-investigator)
- Interdisciplinary, strategic research project to link hazardous chemicals to agricultural workplace risk
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
- So who is building sustainable development? Transforming exploitative labour along southern corridors of migration (ESRC Global Challenges)
- Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius (Researcher) Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Paul (Co-investigator) Alves, José (Co-investigator)
- The participatory research aims to investigate and transform the increasingly widespread link between the concentration of migrants in need of humanitarian protection along migration corridors in the Brazilian Amazonia region; the requirement of large and flexible workforces for large infrastructure projects including construction and agribusiness; exploitative labour conditions in these industries that that are part of ‘sustainable development’ agendas. The project engages workers from Brazil, Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Senegal and various other African states in order to:
document the influence of formal and informal agents on the migrant workers' journey and employment
identify deficits in dignified work and social protection
Collectively propose transformative solutions via a range of media;
facilitate direct social dialogue between migrant workers, project partners and government, industrial, labour and non-profit agencies,at state, regional and national level - 03-Jan-2018 - 26-Jan-2021
- So who is building sustainable development? Transforming exploitative labour along southern corridor (GCRF)
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Paul (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 28-Jan-2021
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Address
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Duncan Wing
Duncan Wing
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