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Dr Jennifer Bates serves as Research Associate in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, working on the ERC Advanced-funded project Mapping Injury led by Professor Vivienne Jabri. Her research examines political agency and global responses to injury manifestations in Colombia's indigenous communities within the Global South context.
Her academic foundation includes:
- BSc in Spanish and Politics, University of Edinburgh
- MSc in International Relations, London School of Economics
- PhD in War Studies (ESRC-funded), King's College London, focusing on feminist politics of FARC female ex-combatants
Bates' research integrates Colombian political dynamics with feminist theoretical frameworks to analyze gendered conflict legacies and peacebuilding processes. She investigates how indigenous communities navigate injury politics while challenging extractive power structures in post-conflict settings. Her work bridges decolonial theory, gender studies, and political agency frameworks with empirical focus on Andean contexts.
Recent publications demonstrate dual trajectories: critical feminist analyses of Colombian conflict (2022-2024) and interdisciplinary healthcare-arts scholarship (2023). This reflects her capacity to operate across political science and medical humanities domains while maintaining focus on structural violence and resistance mechanisms.
Key recognition includes:
- ESRC Studentship for doctoral research
Her grant involvement spans the ERC Advanced Mapping Injury project and prior Erasmus+ funding for the ARTHEWE arts-health education initiative. During doctoral studies, she contributed to KCL's Feminist Perspectives blog as co-editor while examining pandemic-era fieldwork ethics to counteract research extractivism.
She operates within the Mapping Injury project team, an interdisciplinary collective investigating injury manifestations across Global South contexts through political theory, anthropology, and global justice frameworks.
