For some reason we are unable to access our research blog website from out here, so here is our first blog post... Kate It's Friday morning and we have officially been in Uganda for a week! Everything is a bit slower today after a "stress management" session that lasted until 4am involving beers, dancing, a fabulous yellow fishing hat, and goat. Lots of goat. To describe this week is quite a hard task-it's a cross between jumping into a geography textbook and ...

Two and a half years ago, you may remember that I spent a month in Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, teaching sport and music in the secondary school there. Inspired by time there, it has always been in the back of my mind that I will one day return to do my own research. Over the last six months, this idea has developed into a fully-fledged research project complete with endorsement from the Royal Geographical Society, UCL and a local partnership in the form of the...

While Alice and I were in China we kept a video journal which we have amalgamated into the one video which we have put up on Youtube. If you are interested this is the link.... http://youtu.be/TK2aeJojd_M JH-J

So here I am in LA; the final stop of my entire trip... It feels like four months have flown by. I fly out of LAX this evening and shall be arriving in Edinburgh tomorrow evening...! It's been a whistle stop tour of LA; I've managed to pack a lot into my long weekend here. For the first few nights I was staying in a hostel on Hollywood Boulevard, right opposite the Kodak Theatre (which last night was renamed The Dolby Theatre and marked by a celebrity-filled re...

From Shanghai we flew to Hong Kong where we then hopped over the Pacific to Fiji. Our flight gave us a taste of what our stay was going to be like; smiley air hostesses with flowers behind their ears and fellow passengers strumming away on ukuleles- it was set to be a friendly trip. We disembarked to three men in flowery shirts singing various welcome songs to guitars as we waited to pass through customs. The Fijian greeting of "Bula!" was quickly burnt into ou...