Dr Nat Arias obtained their PhD in International Development from the School of Global Studies in November 2023. They specialise in anti-racist human rights research, policy analysis, and evaluations for programmes supporting migrants, refugees, and racialized and LGBT+ communities in Europe. Dr Arias designs and writes about participatory feminist research exploring race, gender, sexuality, and migration in social care policies and program evaluations. Their clients for research consulting include the EuroCentralAsian Lesbian Community (EL*C).
Their PhD thesis explores how race, gender and border regulation contribute to new forms of surveillance and involuntary displacement for refugee and undocumented migrant women and trans people within humanitarian and social welfare systems in Spain. Their research conceptually bridges postcolonial feminism, critical humanitarian, the colonialities of migration, and trans/queer studies with participatory research methods and activist ethnographies.
A former McNair Scholar (Rutgers U. Class of 2015), Nat contributed to the early career research community at Sussex by supporting engagement and outreach for doctoral researchers through their SAGE Research Hive Scholarship (2021 - 2022).
During their previous work as a public health research consultant, they applied various participatory qualitative research methods to support a range of health and social justice interventions in sexual and reproductive health, post-disaster relief, LGBT+ rights, and barriers to care for disabled migrants. Nat developed and refined several qualitative and quantitative program monitoring and evaluation instruments for NGOs, US state and federal health departments, and international aid organisations. They are a contributing author for the 'Programme Evaluation Technical Report WeSpeakNYC' policy report for the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs in 2018.
Nat is a skilled mixed-methods programme evaluation expert. They have the following technical research skills: Technical Report Writing, Participatory Action Research, Critical Ethnographies, Developing monitoring systems for Public Health and NGO Program Monitoring tools, and creating public health needs assessments.
Dr Arias is highly skilled with the following digital analysis software: NVIVO, MAXQDA, and SPSS for qualitative research.
Complementary to their ongoing doctoral research project, Nat holds the following positions in their research communities:
Leadership Roles:
- Steering committee member, Centre for Advanced International Theory ('CAIT') from 2021-2023
Find out more about CAIT by visiting: www.sussex.ac.uk/cait/
- Sussex Research Hive Scholar 2021-20222
Find out more about Sussex Hive Scholars by visiting: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/research/hive
Undergraduate TEACHING experience
Nat is the Seminar Lead for the following undergraduate modules:
'Gender and Development: Theory, Concepts and Issues' (Spring 2021 - Spring 2024) for the Department of International Development.
'Social Change, Culture and Development' - Seminar Lead Autumn 2023 for the Department of International Development.
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
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Other
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of Sussex
University, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
Tutor in Gender and Development
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