HCRI external affiliates
Our extended team members include affiliates based in other schools and faculties of The University of Manchester, as well as alumni staff and honorary professors and research fellows.
One of our strengths has always been the large number of partners, collaborators and contacts who provide advice and support to our activities. Our multidisciplinary global network of academics and practitioners brings specialist knowledge and understanding of their geographical location to our research partnerships, and we support the exchange of ideas through seminars and workshops. We have developed robust, mutually beneficial relationships with experts both inside and outside of The University of Manchester.
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Julie-Marie Strange - Professor of Modern British History, Durham University
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Michael Barnett - Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, The George Washington University
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Helene Juillard - Lecturer in Cash and Market Based Programming in Crisis Settings
Helene is a lecturer with Science Po on humanitarian project design and with HCRI since 2019 autumn semester. She has been working as an evaluator in the humanitarian sector for the past decade, with a focus on cash and market-based programming. Helene is interested in how needs are assessed from an agency centric perspective at the detriment of the demand for certain products and services.
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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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Fabrice Weissman - Director of studies at Crash / Médecins sans Frontières
Director of studies at Crash / Médecins sans Frontières, Fabrice Weissman joined MSF in 1995. He spent several years in the field as logistician and head of mission in conflict settings, mostly in Africa. He has published several articles and books on humanitarian action including Humanitarian negotiations Revealed, the MSF experience (London: Hurst and Co, 2011). And Saving Lives and Staying Alive. Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management (London: Hurst and Co, 2016). He is currently based in Malawi, working for Crash and coordinating MSF emergency responses.
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Hassaan Afzal - Emergency Medicine Doctor
Hassaan Afzal is an Emergency Medicine doctor working in the North West. He completed his masters in International Public Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is working on our Attacks on Healthcare file, a WHO collaborating project. His research interests lie in understanding the impacts of attacks on healthcare in complex emergencies and what can be done to reduce the risk of attacks.
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Mark Duffield - Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Global Insecurities Centre, University of Bristol
Mark's anthropology PhD was completed among Sudan's Hausa speaking communities. His early academic work focused on labour migration, culminating in a study of the Indian shop floor movement in the UK's Black Country iron foundries. Outside of academia, he was Oxfam's Country Representative in Sudan. Mark has subsequently advised some governments, multilateral organisations, UN agencies and NGOs on conflict related humanitarian issues. His books include Security and Unending War: Governing the World of People and Post-Humanitarianism: Governing Precarity in the Digital World.
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Jessica Field - Assistant Professor in the Jindal School of International Affairs
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Michael Neuman - Director of Studies at Crash / MSF
Michaël is director of studies at Crash / MSF, having graduated in Contemporary History and International Relations (Paris-I). He joined MSF in 1999 and has worked both on the ground (Balkans, Sudan, Caucasus, West Africa) and in headquarters (New York, Paris as deputy director responsible for programmes).
He has carried out research on immigration and geopolitics. He is co-editor of "Humanitarian negotiations Revealed, the MSF experience" (Hurst and Co, 2011) and "Saving lives and staying alive. Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management" (Hurst and Co, 2016)
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Jack Lopez - Associate Professor of Health and Society, Bradford University
Jack is currently working as an Associate Professor of Health and Society in the Department of Peace Studies and International Development (PSID) at Bradford University.
He is a medical and social anthropologist specialising in barriers to healthcare, sexual health and care ethics. Jack also works with the design and ethics of collaborative ethnography. His broader interests are intimate life, gender and intersectional life-course in societies affected by violence and/or conflict. His research region is principally, though not exclusive to Mexico, Latin America and the UK.
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Eric Lepp - Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada
Eric Lepp received his Ph.D. from HCRI in 2018. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College - University of Waterloo (Canada). His research explores spaces of contact and the construction of community that includes the ‘other' in conflict-affected societies. He is particularly interested in the counter-cultural, resistant, and unexpected spaces where peace is being enacted and imagined against a backdrop of division.
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Helen Underhill - Head of Educational Research and Delivery at Kindling
A non-profit research organisation focusing on reducing the impacts of fire in humanitarian and development settings.
Previously a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and The University of Manchester (GDI), she has experience designing and delivering postgraduate taught and research courses in E/education, International Development, Humanitarianism and Research Methods.
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Saumya Kumar - Assistant Professor at the Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
With a BBA, LLB (Honours) from National Law University, Jodhpur, and an LLM in International & Comparative Law from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, Saumya works on policy analysis and research on disaster governance. She was awarded a fellowship by the Association of Commonwealth Universities for the Commonwealth Futures climate research programme.
She focuses on disaster policies, transboundary disasters, and international humanitarian law and is currently pursuing a PhD in pathways to just recovery for climate change adaptation in India.
