Academic staff and senior affiliates

Dr Catherine Arthur – Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies

Catherine is Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies and joined the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute in 2018. Catherine’s research on post-colonial, post-conflict nation-building, identity politics, and symbols focuses particularly on Timor-Leste, and is informed by the Northern Ireland case study as a similarly transitional society.

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Antoine Burgard - Postdoctoral Researcher

Antoine Burgard holds a History PhD from Université Lumière Lyon 2, and Université du Québec à Montréal. He is a fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. He is currently working on a comparative history of Jewish refugee activism in the UK and Canada in the aftermath of World War 2 and the Hungarian Revolution. He is also conducting a two-year oral history project with the Fondation Claude Levy enfant juif caché in Strasbourg that aims to collect testimonies of Holocaust survivors in Canada, France and the UK.

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Jiho Cha - LEAP Programme Director and Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies

Jiho is a physician, global health scholar and field humanitarian. After completing clinical training in 2005, he worked for North Korean and other marginalised populations through non-governmental, governmental and international organisations worldwide. His research interests are political inequality and health, implementation science with health system and digital technologies, multidisciplinary methods in hard to reach populations. He received his PhD at the Johns Hopkins University, his MD at the Donga University and his MSc in forced migration at the University of Oxford.

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Professor Paul Dark - Professor of Critical Care Medicine

Paul studied medicine at Manchester and obtained a PhD as MRC Clinical Training Fellow in major trauma. He is Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Manchester and an Honorary NHS Consultant at Salford Royal Hospital. He provides national research leadership for the Department of Health in critical care and runs a national programme of research assessing the care utility of new rapid diagnostic technologies in the setting of severe infection and major injury. He collaborates with colleagues at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in LMIC healthcare settings.

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Dr Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps - Visiting Scholar

Marie-Luce is joining the HCRI until January 2019 to carry out her postdoc research project on the beginnings of the Red Cross Movement in Africa. She received her PhD in history in 2014 from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Geneva, where she has also worked as a lecturer. Her dissertation on the humanitarian operations during the Nigeria-Biafra war will be published as a book in 2018.

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Dr Maura Duffy - Lecturer in Global Health

Maura received an M.A. in International Development (Social Policy and Social Development) from the Institute of Development and Policy Management, University of Manchester in 2006 and was awarded a PhD in International Development (also within IDPM) in 2012. Maura joined HCRI in March 2012 as a lecturer in Global Health.

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Ayham Fattoum - Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies

Ayham holds a PhD in business and management, MSc in management for business excellence, and BSc in agriculture engineering. In his PhD project, he supported two UK case studies in evaluating and overcoming the operational challenges associated with engaging spontaneous volunteers during emergencies.  Ayham has diverse experience including quality management, HR, and change management in the non-for-profit and commercial sector.

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Professor Peter Gatrell - Professor of History

Peter obtained his undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. He has spent most of his academic career at The University of Manchester, including working as Head of the School of History and Classics between 1997 and 2002. Peter's research and teaching interests fall into two broad categories: population displacement in world history and the history of modern Europe.

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Dr Billy Haworth - Lecturer in International Disaster Management

Billy's research interests include critical GIS, community mappin, disaster risk reduction and digital humanitarianism. He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2016, examining digital volunteering and community engagement in bushfire (wildfire) preparation. In 2017 he held a research and teaching position in GIS at the University of Western Australia.

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Dr Kirsten Howarth - Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response

Kirsten undertook her role in HCRI in January 2014. Prior to this, she was a Teaching Fellow in International Development at the Global Development at the University of Manchester. Kirsten completed her PhD in 2012, analysing the causes of post-war violence and crime in El Salvador. Her current research builds on from her PhD by examining urban violence and its humanitarian consequences.

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Dr Amy Hughes MBE - Clinical Academic Lecturer in Emergency Response

Amy is heavily involved in the development of the UK International Emergency Trauma Register and training of its clinicians. The UKIETR aims to provide a structured approach to training of medical teams deploying to disasters to ensure a governed, co-ordinated, clinically competent and guided approach to medical care in disasters. The UK team has recently returned from Typhoon Haiyan. Amy is an Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care clinician.

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Professor Tim Jacoby - Professor in International Relations

After working in Turkey and Nigeria during the 1990s, Tim Jacoby won an ESRC-funded place on the International Conflict Analysis Masters degree programme at the University of Kent. He then completed his PhD and an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Politics at the University of York, after which he joined the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester.

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Anisa Jafar - Research Associate

Anisa is completing her PhD at HCRI in the area of medical-record keeping in sudden onset disasters. Her academic clinical training has taken place mainly in North West England, she has also worked in London, Pakistan, France and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). She completed her DTM&H at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and her MPH from UoM. Anisa is also supporting UK-Med with the development of a medical record system for use by the UK EMT.

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Dr Rubina Jasani - Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response

Rubina's areas of interest are anthropology of violence and reconstruction, medical anthropology with special focus on social suffering and mental illness, and the study of lived Islam in South Asia and the UK. Her doctoral work examined moral and material ‘reconstruction’ of life after an episode of ethnic violence in Gujarat, Western India in 2002. 

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Professor Mukesh Kapila CBE – Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs

Dr Mukesh Kapila CBE  is currently a Special Adviser to the World Humanitarian Summit. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Adjunct Professor at the International Centre for Humanitarian Affairs, Nairobi. He is a Special Representative of the Aegis Trust, and Vice Chair of Nonviolent Peaceforce. His memoir 'Against a Tide of Evil' was nominated for the '2013 Best Non Fiction Book' award.

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Eric Lepp – Senior Tutor in Humanitarian Studies

Eric joined HCRI in 2018-19 after completing his PhD. His thesis focused on post-peace agreement relationships in Northern Ireland, with a particular interest in the interplay between space and identity. His study involved following the supporters of the Belfast Giants professional ice hockey team for a season – as a Canadian he thought this was great. His interests include spaces of encounter and coexistence, peace education, adaptable methodologies, identity and conflict, and resistance to power.

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Amanda McCorkindale - Lecturer in Global Health

Amanda has an MSc in Education from Hofstra University (2007), an MA in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response (2011) and a PhD (2018) in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response from HCRI at The University of Manchester. Amanda has worked with HCRI throughout her PhD as a tutor across modules and has now joined as a Lecturer in Global Health. Her research focuses on education and humanitarianism. Her interests also include: global health, disaster response and the history of humanitarianism.

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Dr Tanja Müller - Reader/Associate Professor in Development Studies

Tanja R. Müller received an MA in Linguistics and Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin, an MA in Development Studies at University College Dublin, and a PhD in Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. She was assistant professor at Wageningen University from 2003-05 where she worked on the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. 

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Dr Jenna Murray De Lopez - Programme Director iBSc in Global Health and Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Global Health

Jenna has an MA and PHD in Social Anthropology from The University of Manchester. Her doctoral research focused on political economy and maternal health and identity in Chiapas, Mexico. She has a professional background in Reproductive and Sexual Health promotion and HIV prevention in both the UK and Mexico. Jenna worked for 7 years as a lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Salford. She joined HCRI in 2016 as a lecturer in Humanitarian Studies.

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Dr Nat O'Grady - Lecturer in Disaster Management

My research concerns how technological innovation affects security practices. My past research examined the development of risk governance and information sharing protocols in UK emergency response. I'm currently probing a new emergency infrastructure that's accruing with government emphasis on smart technologies. For me, these technologies and practices are important for understanding how security operates in our time; showing as they do how global futures are imagined, how governments consider the wider environment around them and how we as citizens figure as subjects of power.

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Dr Govind Oliver - Research Fellow

Govind joined the team as a British Red Cross Research Fellow, the first formal research appointment supported by the British Red Cross and the HCRI. His current research is into whether pre-hospital deaths from Trauma and accidental injury are preventable. He is currently continuing both his clinical and academic training here in Manchester as a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine.

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Dr Róisín Read - Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies

Róisín joined HCRI in 2014 as part of the Making Peacekeeping Data Work for the International Community project, and is now a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies. Her research sits at the intersection of peace and conflict and humanitarian studies. She is interested in exploring how feminist and postcolonial approaches might help us to understand international interventions in conflict and post-conflict contexts, with a geographical focus on Sudan and South Sudan.  

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Dr Sophie Roborgh - Presidential Fellow

Sophie holds a Presidential Academic Fellowship in Medical Humanitarianism. She joined HCRI in October 2018, after completing a PhD and a post-doc at the University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on local medical humanitarian initiatives, where she studies grassroots organisation of medical efforts and attacks on local medical staff and infrastructure. She has specifically looked at the case studies of Egypt, Syria, and Ukraine.

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Dr Gemma Sou - Programme Director BSc in International Disaster Management and Lecturer in Disaster Management

Gemma’s teaching and research sits within the field of postcolonial disaster studies. She is particularly interested in challenging and reinterpreting dominant discourses about disaster preparation, response, and recovery. She also explores the everyday experiences of people living with disaster risk in cities of the Global South. Her other passion is media representations of human suffering, particularly in alternative technologies, such as video games and virtual reality.

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Dr Birte Vogel - Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies

Birte holds a PhD in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response (UoM) and a MLitt in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of St Andrews. She is Assistant Editor of the Taylor and Francis journal Peacebuilding and an active member of the International Studies Association's Peace Studies Section. Her current research focuses on the role of economics in peace interventions, as well as spatial dynamics of peace and conflict.

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Dr Darren Walter - Online Programme Director and Senior Lecturer in Global Health

Darren Walter is the Academic Curriculum Director working within the WHO Collaborating Centre Emergency Medical Teams and Emergency Capacity Building project at HCRI and is also a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospital of South Manchester.

His research interests are focussed on developing emergency care systems, particularly in low and middle-income countries, with a focus on pre-hospital clinical care and disaster medicine.

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