PhD. Candidate Tomy Ncube and Associate Prof. Una Murray attended the 3rd Annual ECMN conference (8-10 July 2025) held in Bonn. This year’s conference was hosted by the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). At the conference, Tomy Ncube gave an oral presentation derived from work co-authored with Dr. Una Murray; Dr. Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste; Bethlehem Girma; Darius Smith; Yeshwas Admasu. The work is based on a forthcoming paper written under the Migration, Climate Change and Social protection (MiCASP) project funded by Research Ireland and run in collaboration with our Ethiopian partner, OSSREA/Addis Ababa University. The team’s paper was presented on the panel ‘Diverse Climate (Im)mobilities: Social Cohesion and (Trans)local Networks’.

Apart from climate (im)mobility drivers, there was a really strong array of presentation streams ranging from governance, representations of those on the move, impacts and outcomes, and critical and theoretical advances in the field of human mobility. 
 
Tomy’s travel and participation was partly funded by the University of Galway College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies’ 2025 Postgraduate Travel Bursary.