2011-Date   Ethnographic research on Kinship, gender, and religion in Dadaab Camps, funded by

                        by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK.

2006                Supervised the terminal evaluation of AMREF’s European Union

                        Block Grant Funded Programme on HIV/AIDS mitigation and

                        PMTCT projects in Nyando district, while working as consultant for

                        the African Institute of Health and Development (AIHD).

2002-03           Local-Refugee relations in Dadaab Camps, funded by the Kyoto University

                         Research Fund

2002-03           Lead Researcher, ‘The role of the informal sector in generating employment in

                        East Africa’ funded by the Tokyo Foundation’s Joint Research and Exchange

                        (JREX) programme