Academic staff

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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Dr Rony Brauman - Emeritus Professor

Qualified as a medical doctor, Rony Brauman has worked in the field of international medical assistance since 1977. Initially serving as a field physician in developing countries with Médecins Sans Frontières (France), he became the President of the organisation from 1982 -1994. Rony is also Associate Professor at L'Institut d'Études Politiques (Paris), and Director of Research at the MSF Foundation also in Paris.

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Dr Antoine Burgard - Pathway Lead for MA Humanitarian & Conflict Response, and Lecturer in Contemporary History of Humanitarian and Disaster

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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Dr Jiho Cha - 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 the 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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Dr Lisa Danquah- - Lecturer in Global Health

Lisa holds a BA in Human Geography from Queen Mary University of London, an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and an MSc in Social Statistics (Research Methods) and a PhD in Social Statistics and Demography both from the University of Southampton. She has broad experience in global and public health on a range of topic areas.

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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 Ayham Fattoum - Pathway Lead for MSc International Disaster Management, and Lecturer in Disaster Operations Management

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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Dr Billy Haworth - Lecturer in International Disaster Management

Billy's research interests include critical GIS, community mapping, 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 Humanitarian Studies 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 Anisa Jafar - NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer

Anisa's research project aims to understand what medical teams use to create medical records in sudden-onset-disasters (SODs) and the perspective of those practitioners using medical records in the field. This information will be used to find a consensus of stakeholders over what a minimum data-set (MDS) should look like for medical records kept by EMTs in SODs.

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Dr Luke Kelly - Research Associate

Luke is a Research Associate at HCRI working on the Evidence and Knowledge for Development (K4D) programme. He received a PhD in history in 2013 from the University of Manchester, where he later worked as a research associate and lecturer. He has published research on the history of British humanitarianism.

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Fiona Lecky - Professor in Emergency Medicine

Fiona is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Sheffield, Honorary Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Salford Royal Hospital.

Her major research interests are major trauma and traumatic brain injury. She is a research director of the Trauma Audit and Research Network an investigator on the EU funded Collaborative European Neuro Trauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury, chaired the 2014 NICE head injury guideline (CG176). As Research Professor at HCRI she leads on collaboration with the NHS, and development of Clinical Academics.

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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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Emeritus Professor Tony Redmond OBE - Professor of International Emergency Medicine

Tony has coordinated responses to the conflict in Gaza, the Ebola crisis in West Africa and the earthquake in Nepal. In 1994 he established UK-Med, an NGO that provides international emergency humanitarian medical assistance and which now hosts the UK International Emergency Trauma Register (UKIETR) and UK International Emergency Medical Register (UKIEMR). Tony has led an experienced medical team to the typhoon-hit Philippines as well as to earthquakes in China and Haiti.

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Dr Sophie Roborgh - Presidential Fellowship in Medical Humanitarianism

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 Stephanie Sodero

Stephanie brings together the fields of climate change, mobility, and medicine to research vital mobilities: movements of people, goods, and information that impact life chances. Her current focus is on how goods, such as blood, saline IV solution, and personal protective equipment, move from the point of production to the point of care, and in what ways such geographically dispersed supply chains are vulnerable to a changing climate. Climate, mobility, and health justice are central to her work.

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Dr Birte Vogel - Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies

Birte holds a PhD in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response (UoM) and an 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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David Wightwick - Chief Executive of UK-Med

David joined UK-Med in January 2018 as the new Chief Executive of the organisation. He has a background in senior roles in the humanitarian sector, having previously worked as a Senior Adviser in emergency response with the WHO, as Global Operations Director for Merlin, Health Director with GOAL, Director of Operations Management at Save the Children International and as a Country Director with IMC.

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