Humanitarian History Seminar Series: Dr Emily Scott

Now into the second year of the Humanitarian History Seminar series hosted by HCRI at the University of Manchester, in this first of 2024/25 we welcome Dr Emily Scott.

Dr Emily Scott is an Assistant Professor in the International Development Department. Her research explores the governance of “need” amongst migrants and refugees in the Middle East, and the ways what goes on in “the field” shapes humanitarian care and control. Her work is focused on humanitarian health responses by international organizations (IOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in areas affected by violent conflict, and particularly amongst Syrian refugees. She is also interested in the ways global humanitarian organizations interact with sovereign and non-state actors in national and local spaces, and the implications of those interactions on where aid goes. Emily is Principal Investigator on a SSHRC Insight Development Grant-funded project titled, “Moving Aid: The Politics of Giving, Conflict, and Control in the Middle East” on this theme.