Marcus Fernandes

Marcus is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Global Health and Development.

He is an alumnus of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Architecture where he explored projects on meditation, cinema, alternative living, and apocalyptic anticipation. While there, he contributed to Project Tanzania, a body of research inquiring into recent and rapid social, economic, and political changes in the republic, producing a chapter on the misaligned visions and realities of new gated communities in Zanzibar. Since then, he has used film to communicate ideas pertaining to the abstract, the uncanny and social issues like reproductive rights. He is a keen writer and illustrator, driven to create works that ponder the complexities of the human mind. Most recently, while training as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, he taught classes of displaced Ukrainians, deepening an interest in the topics he is further exploring on the MISC team at QMU’s Institute for Global Health and Development.

MFernandes@qmu.ac.uk