Dr Megan Douglas is a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS). Her research focuses on the intersection of fashion, migration, and identity (re)construction within African cities.  She explores how the economies and practices surrounding clothing and accessories are vital for better understanding the lived realities and imagined futures of migrants. She is particularly interested around themes of gender and sexuality, informality, reconfigurations of power structures, and strategies for ‘the good life’ within contexts of precarity.

Dr Douglas holds a Ph.D. and MSc in International Development from the University of Edinburgh. She received a B.A. (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Toronto. She is also the coordinator of the Mastercard Foundation Wits-Edinburgh Sustainable African Futures (WESAF) Doctoral Programme (Edinburgh), and is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.