Stephanie has a doctorate in Political Theory and has been working at HCRI since 2017. She currently manages the Researching the Impact of Attacks on Healthcare project and has previously managed HCRI’s Emergency Medical Teams research programmes. She has been working with Prof Taithe closely on DHM since its inception in 2022.

Maria recently received her PhD qualification in History from the University of Galway. Her thesis utilised a comparative approach to analyse the impact of French and British political cultures on Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam's approaches to ethical humanitarian action in the 1980s. Through three case-studies (the Cambodian crisis following the fall of the Khmer Rouge, the Ethiopian famine 1984-1985, and the Salvadoran refugee crisis in Honduras), she examined the practical evolution of humanitarian norms in this decade, and interrogated the forces that shaped how Western NGOs engaged with human rights discourse during the Cold War.

On DHM, she will follow the thread of this research into the 1990s and 2000s, and broaden her focus from individual NGOs to humanitarian medicine as a whole. This role will produce research that is directly relevant to current humanitarian policy discussions, and will involve working alongside representatives from MSF's internal research department, CRASH.

Maria recently received her PhD qualification in History from the University of Galway. Her thesis utilised a comparative approach to analyse the impact of French and British political cultures on Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam's approaches to ethical humanitarian action in the 1980s. Through three case-studies (the Cambodian crisis following the fall of the Khmer Rouge, the Ethiopian famine 1984-1985, and the Salvadoran refugee crisis in Honduras), she examined the practical evolution of humanitarian norms in this decade, and interrogated the forces that shaped how Western NGOs engaged with human rights discourse during the Cold War.

On DHM, she will follow the thread of this research into the 1990s and 2000s, and broaden her focus from individual NGOs to humanitarian medicine as a whole. This role will produce research that is directly relevant to current humanitarian policy discussions, and will involve working alongside representatives from MSF's internal research department, CRASH.