Dr Luis Perez Murcia

Biography

Luis Eduardo holds a PhD in Development Policy and Management from the University of Manchester and has recently finished a post-doc position at the Home-Migration Nexus Project, University of Trento. His PhD thesis examines the intersections between armed conflict, forced migration and home, with a particular empirical focus on internally displaced people in Colombia. For the last four years, Luis Eduardo conducted ethnographic research with transnational Ecuadorian and Peruvian migrants in Spain and the UK and co-edited a volume which looks at the home-making practices of transnational migrants and refugees. Luis Eduardo has teaching experience in the University of Manchester, where he has recently convened and taught a Master Course on Migration and Development and where he has co-convened, lectured, and supervised master students.

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

• The Higher Education Academy, UK: Associate Fellow, Recognition reference: PR111786; Date of recognition: 15/08/2016
• The University of Manchester’s Migration Lab (http://www.migrationlab.manchester.ac.uk/)
• Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers Research Theme, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester (http://www.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/about/research-groups/migrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers/).
• Centre for Studies of Home, Queen Mary University of London – The Geffrye Museum of the Home (http://www.studiesofhome.qmul.ac.uk/register/119101.html).