George Foden

"The cost of sustaining EM-DAT is modest. The cost of losing it would be profound." Please sign and share this open letter urging funders to protect the EM-DAT database. openletter.earth/the-worlds-col…

As discussion of the so-called 'Humanitarian Reset' intensifies, we need to be asking what a new humanitarianism might look like: Smaller, more agile, with greater local leadership? Or retreating from the frontlines whilst crises escalate around the world? georgefoden.blogspot.com/2026/02/presen…

The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?

How has the USAID shutdown impacted disaster management activity in Malawi? Read the latest from @TanjaDHendriks and I for @anthropologytod here: And thanks to @LboroIAS for the opportunity to work on this as part of Tanja's fellowship last year! rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Definitely one of the funniest manifestations of the Americanization of UK politics — fear-mongering about “15 minute cities” in a country where 4/5 of the population lives in a 5-minute city and has done so since the Stone Age

A Labour source responds: "Unserious, anti-aspirational bluster from the Greens. If everyone stops running, the bond markets could respond negatively. We must empower working people to run more efficiently - that's why we're rolling out 50 SmartDash hubs across the country."

Blimey.

"Wow, you're so resilient!" "Thanks, it was that or be dead." Really important discussion for the current global political context, in the US but also all around us. open.spotify.com/episode/6cRqgF…

"I direct my blame to the international community. How can they speak of human rights and ignore what is happening here? "Where is the humanity?"

Locked in a back and forth LinkedIn profile viewing battle with someone I've never spoken to

Universities need to pay more attention to mixed-race identities !

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.” ------------------------------------------------------- Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

🔊New commentary published in Area by @garrett_rhianna (@lborogeog) 🔊 'The architecture of whiteness' #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/area.7…

Point of detail. Under international refugee law it is NOT illegal to arrive in the UK on a small boat if the the purpose of the journey is to claim asylum.

"Peace is not something you “deliver.” It is something you live with people who have no choice but to live through war." uniformnovember.com/single-post/pe…

🏫 What is the architecture of whiteness and why should your university use it in your EDI services? In this short commentary paper, I describe how my thesis of the same name became a subject of great interest to the internet rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ar…

@ro_sirajul Thanks, Sirajul! I hope all is well with you

@GeorgeFoden Congrats, Dr George Foden 👏

And that's a wrap on the nearly 4 years of fun and (occasional) hard work to finish my PhD... Dr George Foden is now official! Thanks to everyone who got me here, a position I never believed I'd be in. You can read my thesis here: repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesi…

"As climate change intensifies, Malawi, like many poor countries on the frontlines of global warming, finds itself shouldering a crisis it did little to create. Its people are paying the highest price – in lives, livelihoods, and lost futures." dialogue.earth/en/climate/im-…