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Dr Naluwembe Binaisa

Positions held:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Naluwembe Binaisa is an interdisciplinary scholar and creative practitioner whose work seeks to understand mobilities of belonging, identity and citizenship, within Africa and her Diaspora. She is part of a collaborative team of scholars based at Birkbeck, Bristol and Bournemouth, working on the UKRI-funded project 'Colonial Reels: Histories and Afterlives of Colonial Film Collections’. This project focuses on the colonial film collections in four unique archives, British Empire and Commonwealth Collection, British Film Institute, Royal Anthropological Institute and Wellcome Collection.

    Naluwembe brings a wealth of experience from the academic, policy, charity and creative sectors in Africa, Europe and the UK. She is a passionate advocate of research and practice that centres ways of seeing and being in the world from a global majority perspective. Naluwembe has led and delivered consultancy projects for organisations as diverse as International Organization for Migration (UN IOM); Comic Relief; Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. She is committed to broadening public engagement through research and practice with a broad range of stakeholders, communities and audiences.


    Qualifications

    • DPhil Migration Studies
    • MSc Social Research Methods

    ORCID

    0000-0003-4650-9972
  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Visual cultures, heritage and archives
    • Africa and the African Diaspora
    • Narratives of belonging
    • Identities, time and environment
    • Gender, age and generations