Dr Lothar Smith
Lothar Smith is Associate Professor in human geography at the Radboud University, The Netherlands. His research interests go out to processes related to changing social configurations coming out of migration such as gender role changes, institutional arrangements of local resources, and societal changes and frictions arising out of rural and urban development. To that end I have supervised a PhD project of the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) in Sri Lanka, looking at the role of diasporas in the redevelopment of post-conflict regions. I am also part of the Dutch-Indonesian New Indonesian Frontiers Programme that focuses on the impact on local populations of changing economic-ecological situations in Kalimantan. Another project, also in Indonesia, looks at the status of stateless Rohingya refugees.
In Ghana I have affiliations with the Centre for Migration Studies (Accra) and S.D. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (Wa). Concerning the CMS I played an instrumental role in its research and educational program development. The relationship with the second has allowed for longitudinal research on rural-urban connectivities, livelihoods and mobility questions. This also pertains to climate change, gender shifts, youth aspirations and the reconfiguration of rural-urban spaces, the focus of PhD research I supervise in refugee camps of Uganda and in coastal Nigeria.
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