Research Interests

My research interests include migration, diasporas and how remittances can support economic development. I would like to examine formal and informal networks within diasporas that encourage migration and the transfer of wealth between countries. I would like to apply an interdisciplinary approach to examine economic issues and the politics of citizenship. I am interested in the intersection of race, gender and immigration policies that affect documented and undocumented workers.

Research Interests

My research interests are geared toward sustainable development and global health. I come from a background in Biology. This interdisciplinary background has provided me with a multifaceted lens that considers development in a holistic way. My goal is to look at global health with biological and social sciences in mind, examining how the two are connected and how they impact one another through the frameworks of embodiment and ecosocoial theory. My current research project is focused on investigating the impacts of aquaculture as an adaptation to the environmental degradation caused by hydropower dams in Thailand. Current practices allow communities to be disproportionately affected as we accelerate into the Anthropocene and face the challenges of climate change. I intend to evaluate different sustainable processes that can lessen this effect in a resilient way and the impacts of aquaculture on the communities' physical and mental wellbeing.

Brief Biography

Jordyn Moreno is a master’s student within the Department of Global Development Studies here at Queen’s University. She previously received a Hons. BA in Global Development Studies with a minor in History at Queen’s. Jordyn has participated in a variety of research projects throughout her academic career, surrounding topics such as poverty and food security in Latin America, as well as land politics and community health in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Research Interests

My research interests currently surround the topics of land politics, migration, and community health and wellbeing in coastal Tanzania. My thesis project aims to utilize an interdisciplinary approach to examine the intersections of these topics by tracing the migratory routes of individuals displaced by climate change and large-scale land acquisitions and exploring how they embody their migration experiences and environments.

Awards

• 2025-2026 Samuel McLaughlin Fellowship

Teaching Experience

• DEVS 240 - Fall 2024
• DEVS 366 - Winter 2025 and Winter 2026
• DEVS 280 - Fall 2025

Publications

"Sembrando Vida and its Negative Effects on Peasant Communities in Mexico," blog post, Poverty Research Network, University of Glasgow. 

https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/poverty/publications/blogposts/#d.en.848925

Research Interests

I study governance frameworks surrounding sustainable finance, and in particular the transparency and effectiveness of green bond projects.

Research Interests

Broadly, my research lies at the intersection of data, development, and the city. My research project contributes to scholarly understandings of data justice and the ways in which it can be supported in the context of open data initiatives in South Africa (with implications for other cities in the global South). Focusing on open data in Cape Town, one of the first municipal open data initiatives in the global South, I ask how access to knowledge and the benefits of open data can be more equitably distributed in conditions of extreme inequality.