Join us for the next instalment of Ethics of Photography and Development series with Professor Regina Scheyvens and Dr Apisalome Movono.

An important and timely conversation with Professor Regina Scheyvens and Dr Apisalome Movono from Massey University, New Zealand.

Regina and Api will reflect critically on ethical fieldwork from their own experiences leading research in the South Pacific, and how these learnings can be translated across sectors into humanitarian and development work more broadly.

About the speakers:

Apisalome Movono (PhD) began his career at University of the South Pacific in Fiji and is now a senior lecturer at Massey University where he continues his passion for the Pacific through researching and promoting development that is fair, resilient and sustainable for future generations. His work seeks to create a more accurate understanding of Pacific Island peoples and to find solutions and long-term strategies for the many challenges Pacific Islanders face, publishing articles which focus on resilience, sustainable livelihoods and adaptive systems in islands. He is the co-founder of the Laucala Beach Sustainability Society and is an active conservationist and community development advocate for his people in Fiji and the Pacific region.

Regina Scheyvens is Professor of Development Studies at Massey University, where she combines a passion for teaching about international development with research on tourism and sustainable development. Two books have emerged from this research: Tourism for Development: Empowering Communities (Pearson, 2002), and Tourism and Poverty (Routledge, 2011), along with a wide range of articles. She has also edited the widely utilised text book, Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide (Sage, 2014), and continues to reflect critically on issues of ethical fieldwork in terms of both her own research in the South Pacific and her supervision of postgraduate students.