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Research the Climate–Health–Governance Nexus With Rigour

Climate change is reshaping health risks, livelihoods, services and governance across the Western Mediterranean and African regions. Understanding these changes takes more than documenting exposure or measuring outcomes: researchers also need to examine how people experience risk, how institutions respond, whose knowledge informs decisions, and how policies operate in different contexts.

This five-day workshop equips you to design and conduct rigorous qualitative research on these intersecting issues — from advanced study design, sampling, interviews, focus groups, observation, document analysis and participatory methods through to systematic analysis. Particular attention goes to ethical research in settings shaped by vulnerability, displacement, political sensitivity, unequal power and climate-related shocks.

You work on your own research question or project throughout, and leave with practical research materials and an analysis plan you can adapt for a proposal, field study, evaluation or publication.