Ulrike Krause

Gender | Forced Migration | Conflict

Reimagining responses to forced migration through the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)

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Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant 
Duration: 2025 – 2031
Project lead: James Milner (Carleton University)
Project team: Ulrike Krause (University of Münster) serves as co-applicant
Project network: 29 organizations and 80 partners
Project affiliation: Carleton University, Canada

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Project summary

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has awarded a C$2.5 million Partnership Grant to a network of 29 organizations and 80 partners to undertake a project entitled “Reimagining Responses to Forced Migration Through the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)”. The project runs from 2025 to 2031, with total support from partners estimated at an additional C$2.5 million. The project is led by Prof. James Milner (Carleton University) and Prof. Ulrike Krause (University of Münster) is a co-applicant.

The project is founded on a shared belief in the need to transform our approach to forced migration research by amplifying the agency of those most affected by displacement and by adopting a deeply inclusive, interdisciplinary, collaborative and localized approach to the co-production of knowledge.

The goal of the partnership is for the knowledge and expertise of those most affected by displacement to more reliably and substantively inform forced migration research and the global refugee regime, leading to more effective, legitimate and accountable research, policy and practice.

The project will focus on four strategies:

  1. Ensuring the meaningful participation of forced migrants as equal partners;
  2. Investing in collaborative, partnered research with those most affected by displacement;
  3. Amplifying the agency of traditionally marginalized actors through training and mentoring activities; and
  4. Reimagining knowledge translation and mobilization to realize change in policy and practice.

The project aims to mobilize a global partnership that embraces a wide range of perspectives, generates new forms of knowledge and unites diverse actors in designing and promoting transformative, yet practical, responses to forced migration. Ultimately, the project aims to champion research, policy and responses that are more effective, legitimate and accountable.

 

Further information on the website of LERRN: https://carleton.ca/lerrn/about/