Mwangi Mwaura is a Rhodes Scholar currently in his first year of the DPhil in Geography and the Environment. His research interests are in African Urbanism, Infrastructures and Politics, Fast Fashion and the Environment, Knowledge Production and Youth Inclusion and Livelihoods. He has published on these areas in academic and popular media outlets. He also writes fiction and curates book clubs exploring African Literature wherever he resides.

 

Mwangi has valuable experience in student engagement through curating spaces and forums for students' well-being; social, academic and professional. During his tenure as the Academic Events and Outreach Coordinator for Oxford Refugee Studies Centre’s hub in Nairobi, Refugee Led Research Hub (RLRH), he was instrumental in setting up the social and welfare infrastructure that made the hub active and brought refugees and Kenyans together through in person and online forums. In his first year at Oxford when he was reading for the MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance he volunteered at the Oxford Africa Conference and wrote two pieces for AfriSoc’s inaugural Afrisights magazine that he will be co-editing this year. He is also the Student Engagement Officer at the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx).