Dr. Kyle Schwartz
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

Kyle Schwartz is an interdisciplinary researcher with a research agenda on inclusion, adaptation, and wellbeing in the contexts of mobility, conflict, and disaster. He has contributed to projects on social vulnerability, community resilience, and international humanitarian policy in Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal, UK government anti-trafficking policy, disability and networks of care in the war in Ukraine, caste-based discrimination in disaster aid distribution in India and Nepal, COVID-19 clinical interventions, and climate change adaptation among internally displaced nomadic pastoralists in Mongolia. His current research focusses on the development of research partnerships with Roma and Traveller communities in the UK to co-design accessible services and support for mental health. His methodological experience includes ethnographic, qualitative, and participatory methods, clinical research, and policy analysis employing mixed methods approaches. In addition to his research work, he has a background in emergency medical services, county-level disaster planning, and disaster management consulting. His teaching interests include environmental politics, global health, international development, migration, social and behavioural effects of disaster, humanitarianism and human rights, qualitative methods, climate justice, social theory, and human geography. 

Qualifications

BA Anthropology (University of Georgia)

MPH Disaster Management (University of Georgia)

PhD Applied Social Sciences (Edinburgh Napier University)

AFHEA Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

FRGS Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Research

Overview

Research Interests

• Marginalization, Social Vulnerability and Resilience
• Forced Displacement, Mobility, and Refugee Studies
• Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Research
• Global Health and Development
• Ethnography and Urban Sociology