Meghann Ormond focuses on how shifting visions and practices of citizenship and belonging transform transnational mobility, heritage, health and care relationships. Her work is situated at the intersections of migration and tourism studies, health and social geographies, and transformative and participatory research approaches. It is concerned with post-national, relational conceptualisations of care, responsibility and interdependence, and the governance of these.
Main research lines:
1) Transformative & participatory learning: How can pedagogical approaches informed by an ethics of care and democracy be better integrated into our work as educators and researchers supporting personal and collective learning processes?
2) Migrant heritage: How are the experiences of transnationally-mobile people included and represented in the places in which they live and have lived?
3) Transnational healthcare: How are the medical and long-term care needs of different transnationally-mobile populations being supported and met in an era of intensified global mobility?