Bianca Fadel

Research Fellow

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

Dr Bianca Fadel is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Global Development (CGD) at Northumbria University. Her PhD research analysed identity and belonging in local volunteering experiences during protracted crises, particularly in the case of Burundi, in East Africa. She is part of the Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU) research team and involved in policy-focused projects with volunteer organisations including Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. As a practitioner, she has previously worked as advisor for humanitarian diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brazil; and her experience also comprises the implementation of local youth engagement volunteering projects with the Brazilian Red Cross.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Key areas of interest: Volunteering; Community Development; Humanitarian Action; Resilience; Participatory Methodologies; Global South; Decolonisation

Working languages: English; French; Portuguese; Spanish

Key Publications

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Uneven geographies of youth volunteering in Uganda: Multi-scalar discourses and practices, Baillie Smith, M., Mills, S., Okech, M., Fadel, B. 1 Aug 2022, In: Geoforum
Volunteering hierarchies in the global South: remuneration and livelihoods, Baillie Smith, M., Fadel, B., O'Loghlen, A., Hazeldine, S. 1 Feb 2022, In: Voluntas
Ethnographies of Volunteering: Providing Nuance to the Links Between Volunteering and Development, Chadwick, A., Fadel, B., Millora, C. 1 Dec 2021, In: Voluntas
How Shades of Truth and Age Affect Responses to COVID-19 (Mis)information: Randomized Survey Experiment among WhatsApp Users in UK and Brazil, Vijaykumar, S., Jin, Y., Rogerson, D., Lu, X., Sharma, S., Maughan, A., Fadel, B., de Oliveira Costa, M., Pagliari, C., Morris, D. 23 Mar 2021, In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Refugees and Volunteering in Uganda, Turyamureeba, R., Ahimbisibwe, F., Fadel, B., O'Loghlen, A. 26 Feb 2021
Volunteering: Connecting the Global Agenda on Sustainability to the Community Level, Fadel, B. 20 May 2020, Partnerships for the Goals, Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Cham, Springer
Volunteerism and Community Resilience: Locally Owned Solutions Delivering Impact, Chadwick, A., Fadel, B. 22 Jul 2020
Volunteering in Conflict and Emergencies Theme Paper 1: Everyday Humanitarianism, Thomas, N., Baillie Smith, M., Agerhem, S., Cadesky, J., Valle Paz, B., Fadel, B. 22 Jun 2018
Volunteering in Conflicts and Emergencies Theme Paper 2: The Dangers of Being Local, Thomas, N., Baillie Smith, M., Agerhem, S., Cadesky, J., Fadel, B., Valle Paz, B. 22 Jun 2018
Volunteering in Conflicts and Emergencies Theme Paper 3: Volunteers and Victims, Thomas, N., Baillie Smith, M., Agerhem, S., Cadesky, J., Valle Paz, B., Fadel, B. 22 Jun 2018

Professional Activity

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Other: Member of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) 2019
Other: Member of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Expert Group to support the Plan of Action for Integrating Volunteerism into the 2030 Agenda 2019
Other: Member of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Working Group on Volunteering in Dangerous Situations 2018
Other: Member of the Volunteering in Conflicts and Emergencies Initiative (ViCE) 2018
Other: Global Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS), Brown University 2016

Qualifications

Geography PhD January 27 2023
MA September 01 2013
BA December 10 2010

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