Bio
Dr. Andreas Hackl is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent work examined the role of the digital economy and platform work for forcibly displaced people. This research was initially funded by an ESRC-funded New Investigator Grant (2019-2021) and continued into applied work as a researcher and expert consultant with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UNHCR Innovation Service, focusing on improving the working conditions of refugees in the digital economy and mitigating the risks they face. Hackl’s previous work as an anthropologist included several years of research in Israel and Palestine, including on labor mobility from the occupied West Bank into Israel, and a two-year urban ethnography of Palestinians in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. He also worked as a media correspondent based in Jerusalem.
Hackl’s academic contributions include leading studies on forced displacement and migration, digital labor and inequality, as well as conflict and humanitarian crises, marking him as a distinguished figure in the fields of anthropology and international development.