Current PhD students

View the thesis topic and profiles of some of our current postgraduate researchers.

  • Rachel Astin

    Rachel Astin

    Researching attacks on healthcare in conflict using quantitative research methods. Her areas of interest include attacks on healthcare in urban conflict contexts, interactions between non-state armed groups and healthcare, and conflict epidemiology.

  • Sophie Clarke

    Sophie Clarke

    Biometrics, data infrastructure and the management of displaced populations.

  • Charlotte Doggett

    Charlotte Doggett

    Capturing Forgotten Voices: Syrian adolescents’ experiences of displacement and humanitarian action in Jordan and Lebanon

  • Amarachi Emeruwa

    Amarachi Emeruwa

    'Lust' and 'Evil' Rape in African Conflicts; situating local culture and social norms in the prevalence of rape during the Nigerian civil war. Her research areas cover Gender inequalities, Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG), Conflict-related sexual violence, Intersectionality between social-cultural norms and VAWG , Social service policies.

  • Barrise Griffin

    Barrise Griffin

    Exploring the relationship and connections between colonialism and vulnerability to disasters in the Caribbean, but The Bahamas particularly. She will also be exploring the connections between colonialism and people’s perception on the role of government in a disaster.

  • Niamh Hanrahan

    Niamh Hanrahan

    An Asian refugee crisis? Humanitarian relief of Jewish refugees in Hong Kong, Kobe, Manila and Surabaya (1931-1953)

  • Ahmed Ibrahim

    Ahmed Ibrahim

    The Governance of Migration: Border crossing in Northeastern Algeria

  • Chloe Chbat

    Chloe Chbat

    Bordering and Immobility: A Study of the Palestinian Body within the Settler Colonial Context in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)

  • Panagiotis Karagkounis

    Panagiotis Karagkounis

    'Forced resettlement, humanitarianism and the 'logic of development': The Greek case and the Near East, 1920s-1950s'

  • Hanna Matt

    Hanna Matt

    Reconfiguring Humanitarianism in the Margins of Empire - Displacement and Relief in Turkestan, 1914-1924.

  • Thomas Page

    Thomas Page

    The Final Report: How ideology disciplines the possible in narratives on aid

  • Francisca Vergara Pinto

    Francisca Vergara Pinto

    Understanding affect in risk perceptions and post-eruption reoccupation of active volcanic spaces.

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  • Roza Sarakatsanou

    Roza Sarakatsanou

    Rescuing refugees in the maritime space of the Aegean Sea: An interdisciplinary analysis of hybridization between solidarity and humanitarian action in Greece

  • Laila Zulkaphil

    Laila Zulkaphil

    Innovative humanitarian finance: Implications of using impact bonds for financing humanitarian actions.