Consortium

Dr Read is a Co-Investigator with RIAH. She joined HCRI in 2014 to work on the ESRC Making Peacekeeping Data Work for the International Community Project which focused on the African Union/United Nations mission in Darfur, Sudan (UNAMID). The project included the ethical and political implications of security incident data collection and analysis; the effects of different kinds of data sources qualitative/quantitative) on narratives of conflict; the gendered nature of security data; and the politics of interpretative frames for analysing conflict.

In September 2017, Roisin became a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies. Her research explores the politics of international interventions in conflict, with a focus on the dynamics of knowledge production and representation. Geographically, Roisin’s research is centred on Sudan and South Sudan. She is also interested in the reform of the humanitarian system, including: the use of technology in humanitarianism; the role of visual representations in humanitarian identity formation; humanitarian security; and international humanitarian non-governmental organisations’ legitimacy.