Roisin Read

Roisin Read is a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester. She joined HCRI in 2014 after completing her ESRC-funded PhD in Global Development Institute, focusing on peacekeeping data ethics in Sudan. Since 2017, her research explores international intervention politics, knowledge production dynamics, and humanitarian system reform. Geographically, her work centers on Sudan/South Sudan, with additional studies in Nepal and Colombia. She examines gendered aspects of conflict, humanitarian technology, visual identity formation, and NGO legitimacy. Her work contributes to UN SDGs related to global inequalities and peaceful societies.

• Education: PhD in Global Development (2014), University of Manchester
• Key Expertise: Peacekeeping data analysis, gender-war intersections, humanitarian security, post-conflict transitions

Research interests focus on how knowledge production shapes intervention narratives, particularly regarding security data's ethical implications and gendered conflict experiences. She investigates humanitarian system reforms, including tech applications and NGO accountability. Recent work analyzes healthcare violence in Colombia and Nepalese insurgency gender impacts.

• Awards: No specific awards listed, but active in policy-relevant research with impacts in humanitarian community practices
• Grants: ESRC-funded Making Peacekeeping Data Work Project (2014)

Labs/Teams: HCRI research network collaborating on global conflict and humanitarian issues. Supervision focuses on gender/humanitarianism, conflict knowledge systems, and African post-conflict studies.