Sheryn See, currently an MPhil student with our lab, is undertaking a 4-month placement as a Climate Displacement Specialist with the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Sheryn will be supporting the development of the Risk Index for Climate Displacement (RICD) – a risk index and predictive model that will improve quantification, understanding and forecasting of potential future challenges linked to climate change and migration, including climate-induced displacement. The RICD will help governments, communities, and partners to increase the resilience of populations most likely to be impacted by climate-induced displacement and work towards averting or addressing loss and damage.
The placement builds on Sheryn’s MPhil research in the lab, which examines how humanitarian organisations respond to complex displacement crises where climate change, disasters, and conflict overlap, with a focus on the Philippines.