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Role in the University
Lecturer in Peace Studies
Background
Dr Ryan Joseph O鈥橞yrne is a sociocultural anthropologist and Lecturer in Peace Studies with the Global Humanity for Peace Institute (GHfP) and the Institute of Education and Humanities at UWTSD. He holds a MA in Cultural Anthropology from Victoria University Wellington (New Zealand), a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London (United Kingdom), and has held academic positions in the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (FLIA) at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
His most recent fieldwork investigated the connections between mobility, resilience, and public authority among South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda. He has published in Australasian Review of African Studies, Civil Wars, Human Welfare, The Journal of Refugee and Immigrant Studies, The Journal of Refugee Studies, The Journal of Religion in Africa, Sites, and Third World Thematics. He has chapters forthcoming in Informal Settlement in the Global South, (Gihan Karunaratne, ed.) and Migration, Borders, and Refugees in Africa (Joseph K. Assan, ed.), and is editor of a special issue on vernacular understandings of resilience in Uganda for the journal Civil Wars (co-edited with Julian Hopwood).
Enterprise, Commercial and Consultative Activities
Expert Or Advisory Experience And External Engagement
2023: Discussant, FLIA Lunch & Learn Seminar Series on Resilience: Refugee Resilience, LSE.
2022: Expert Advisor on Dafuri asylum cases in the USA for Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston (MA).
2022: FLIA Knowledge Exchange and Impact Coordinator, LSE Knowledge Exchange Framework and Higher Education Business & Community Interaction Submission Board, LSE.
2021: Expert Advisor on 鈥Displacement, Return and Reintegration in South Sudan鈥 for the Research & Evidence Facility (REF) via Samuel Hall.
2021: Expert Advisor with Naohiko Omata on 鈥Transnational Blindness: International Institutions and Refugees鈥 Cross-Border Activities鈥, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
2019: Workshop Leader for 鈥Karamoja Capacity Building, Knowledge Exchange, and Methodology Workshop鈥, Moroto, Uganda. Deconstructing Notions of Resilience, LSE.
2019: Workshop Leader for 鈥Northern Ugandan Capacity Building, Knowledge Exchange, and Methodology Workshop鈥, Gulu, Uganda. Deconstructing Notions of Resilience, LSE.
2018: Expert Advisor on Northern Uganda: European Union External Action Service Help Desk Review on 鈥Conflict, instability, risk and resilience in North-West and South-West of Uganda鈥, the University of Birmingham and the European Union External Action Service.
2018: Expert Advisor on Northern Uganda: Thomson Reuters Foundation. (See:)
2018: Workshop Leader for 鈥Programme for African Leadership Capacity Building, Knowledge Exchange, and Methodology Workshop鈥, Mombasa, Kenya. CPAID, LSE.
2018: Workshop Participant for ESRC-funded 鈥How Academic Research Can Inform Humanitarian Thinking in South Sudan鈥, London, LSE.
2016 to 2018: Expert Advisor and workshop participant for AHRC-funded 鈥溾Witchcraft鈥 and Conflict: Exploring Alternative Discourses of Insecurity鈥, University of Birmingham and Durham University.
Publications
Academic Publication Record 鈥 Refereed Journal Articles
Hopwood, J. & O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2022). Introduction 鈥 . Civil Wars Special Issue 鈥淰ernacular Resilience in Post-Conflict Uganda鈥, 24 (2-3): 145-158.
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2022). . Civil Wars Special Issue 鈥淰ernacular Resilience in Post-Conflict Uganda鈥, 24 (2-3): 328-356.
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2021). . The Journal of Immigration and Refugee Studies, 20(3): 444-458.
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2021). . The Journal of Religion in Africa, 50(3): 137-155.
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. & Ogeno, C. (2020). . Journal of Refugee Studies Special Issue 鈥淭rajectories of Displacement and the Politics of Return鈥, 33(4):&苍产蝉辫;747鈥765.
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. & Ogeno, C. (2018). Rights in Exile: The International Refugee Rights Initiative’s Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, July.
Storer, E., Reid, K., & O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2017). . Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2(2-3): 180-196.
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2014). . Australasian Review of African Studies, 35(1): 95-102.
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2014). . Human Welfare, 3(1): 5-21.
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2014). . Australasian Review of African Studies, 35(1): 76-94.
O鈥橞yrne, R. (2011). . Sites (NS), 8(2): 126-146.
Academic Publication Record 鈥 Forthcoming
Vancluysen, S., & O鈥橞yrne, R.J. 鈥淓veryday (Im)mobilities During Displacement: Critical Reflections on the Movements of South Sudanese Refugees in Northern Uganda.鈥 Migration, Borders, and Refugees in Africa, Joseph K. Assan, ed. Abingdon: Routledge.
Academic Publication Record 鈥 Special Issues Edited
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. & Hopwood, J., eds. (2022). 鈥. 24(2-3).
Academic Publication Record 鈥 Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2023). 鈥.鈥 Informal Settlement in the Global South, Gihan Karunaratne, ed. Abingdon: Routledge.
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2020). . Brill Encyclopaedia of Global Pentecostalism. M. Wilkinson, C. Au, J. Haustein, T. Johnson, & E. Ramirez, eds. Leiden: Brill.
Academic Publication Record 鈥 PhD Thesis
O鈥橞yrne, R.J. (2017). . University College London (UCL).
Additional Information
Research Experience And Funding Success
2022: Public Authority through Refugees鈥 Eyes: A Collaborative Photo-Voice Initiative. London School of Economics. P-I, sole author (indirect, internal ESRC funding).
2022: Religion and Public Authority among Acholi-Speaking Refugees in Palabek Refugee Settlement, Northern Uganda. London School of Economics. P-I, sole author (indirect, internal ESRC funding).
2021 to 2023: Transition Funding - CPAID: The Centre for Public Authority and International Development. London School of Economics. Co-I, co-author (ESRC funded).
2017 to 2022 : CPAID: The Centre for Public Authority and International Development. London School of Economics. Co-I, co-author (ESRC funded).
2017 to 2020 : Deconstructing Notions of Resilience: Diverse Post-Conflict Settings in Uganda. London School of Economics. Co-I, co-author (Institute of Global Affairs and Rockefeller Foundation funded).
2013 to 2016 : Justice and Security Research Programme. London School of Economics. Research only.
2010鈥2011: Research Assistant, Anthropology Programme. Te鈥疕erenga Waka鈥擵ictoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Research only.
Conference Activity/Participation 鈥 Conferences/Panels/Seminars Organised
2023: Co-convenor: Migration and Diaspora Studies Research Seminar Series. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK.
2018: Panel: 鈥The Contradictions of 鈥淩esilience鈥 in the Aftermath of Displacement and Return鈥. American Anthropological Association, San Jose, USA.
2015: Panel: 鈥Escalation, Aftermath: The Beginnings and Ends of Conflict鈥. American Anthropological Association, Denver, USA.
2011: Conference: 鈥Kinship at the Margins鈥. Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand.
Conference Activity/Participation 鈥 Papers Presented
2022: Everyday (Im)mobilities During Displacement: Critical Reflections on the Movements of South Sudanese Refugees in Northern Uganda. Co-authored with Sarah Vancluysen. HDCA, Antwerp, Belgium.
2019: Beyond the Hamites, the Ethnography: Reflections on the Works of C.G.Seligman in the 鈥淒ecolonising the Curriculum鈥 era. LSE Department of Anthropology Re-naming the Seligman Library Seminar Series, London, UK.
2018: Resilience in Crisis: Parasitic Humanitarianism and the Ugandan Refugee Industry. Co-authored with Ogeno Charles. American Anthropological Association, San Jose, USA.
2018: Poisoning and Public Authority: The Fragility of Formal Governance in Palabek Refugee Settlement. Co-authored with Ogeno Charles. 鈥榃itchcraft鈥 and Conflict Workshop, Kampala, Uganda.
2017: Occult Economies and the Demonic Gift: An Evangelical Biography of Evil and Redemption in Central Africa. Cambridge University Social Anthropology Seminar Series, Cambridge, UK.
2017: Cosmologies and (In)Security. JSRP Policy Recommendations Workshop, Gulu, Uganda.
2016: Formal Justice Mechanisms in Acholi South Sudan. JSRP Research Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
2016: Governance Without Borders: Humanitarianism and Governance in Pajok, South Sudan. World Conference of Humanitarian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
2016: 鈥榃e had the LRA in South Sudan too!鈥: The (Largely Forgotten) South Sudanese Dimensions of Uganda’s LRA Conflict. LRA Conflict Workshop, Birmingham, UK.
2015: Dragon Boats and Demon Cities: End Time Prophecy and the Global Flows of the Demon Possessed. Anthropology on the Move, London, UK.
2015: From the Customary to the Christian? The Dynamics of Cosmological Transformation in Acholi South Sudan. IAHR, Erfurt, Germany.
2015: Making Meaning Out of Chaos: Resilience, Rumours, and Ethnopolitical Violence in Contemporary South Sudan. Resilience, trauma and cosmology workshop, London, UK.
2015: Singing, Sermons, and Status: Christian Worship as a Liminal Space in Acholi South Sudan. AAI, Cork, Ireland.
2014: 鈥榃ar, and Rumours of War鈥: The Social Lives of Rumours in Acholi South Sudan. AAA, Denver, USA.
2014: Witchcraft, Medicine, and Magic among the Acholi. MAGic, Brighton, UK.
2011: At the Margins of it All: The 密桃传媒 of Kinship in Contemporary New Zealand. Conference introduction for 鈥淜inship at the Margins鈥 workshop, Te鈥疕erenga Waka鈥擵ictoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
2011: Going Back, Coming Home: The Ambiguity of 鈥楻eturn鈥 in Transnational Acholi Wedding Arrangements. AAA, Montreal, Canada.
2011: Ideas, Ideals, and Issues of Resettlement and Return among South Sudanese Acholi Refugees in New Zealand. AFSAAP, Adelaide, Australia.
2011: Structure and Agency, a False Distinction: The Debate as Viewed Through Acholi Marriage. Kinship at the Margins workshop, Te鈥疕erenga Waka 鈥 Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.