Research
Academic Research
Humanitarian Governance: Accountability, Advocacy & Alternatives
2020 – 2025
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 884139
When Disaster Meets Conflict
2015 – 2020
When Disaster Meets Conflict is funded as part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (Vici) scheme (project no. 453/14/013), financed by the NWO, the Dutch Research Council.
Applied Research
The HSC Team has experience working in applied research across a number of Humanitarian-related areas. Check out some of our previous projects below, and reach out for any enquiries:
- Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse & Harassment (PSEAH) – Thea Hilhorst
- Study ‘Flood Risk of IDPs in Burkina Faso’ with 510 of the Netherlands Red Cross – Rodrigo Mena & Hyeonggeun Ji
- Project ‘Social Science for Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action’ with UNICEF – Thea Hilhorst, Kaira Alburo-Cañete & Rodrigo Mena
- Project ‘ICRC Climate-risk Screenings: Afghanistan and Uganda’ with Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre – Rodrigo Mena
Selected Publications
2024
Fransen, S., Hunns, A., Jaber, T. & Janz, T. (2024). ‘Climate risks for displaced populations: a scoping review and research agenda’, Journal of Refugee Studies, feae074, doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feae074
HAG, CoLAB, inSights, GLOW, PIANGO and Pujiono Centre (2024). ‘Vision Paper: Toward an Equitable Humanitarian Knowledge and Evidence Landscape’. Melbourne: HAG.
Barrat, S., Fransen, S. & Loschmann, C. (2024). ‘Conceptualizing, planning, and administering migration surveys’, in the Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, pp. 10-30.
Chmutina, K., von Meding, J., Williams, D.A., Remes, J., Cheek, W. & Cañete, K.Z. (2024). ‘Solidarity in disaster scholarship’. Disasters, e12657. doi.org/10.1111/disa.12657
Cañete, K.Z. (2024). ‘Disaster Through a Feminist Lens: Epistemology, Methodology, and Methods’. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.524
Mukherjee, M. & Fransen, S. (2024). Exploring migration decision-making and agricultural adaptation in the context of climate change: A systematic review,World Development, 179, 106600, Pergamon. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106600
Cañete, K.Z. (2024). ‘Feminization of Responsibility in Community Recovery: Rethinking Disaster Justice through the Lens of Care.’ Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, 72 (1), pp. 11-40. philippinestudies.net/ojs/index.php/ps/article/view/5220
Poveda-Clavijo, J. and Mena, R. (2024). ‘A Policy Analysis of the Temporary Protection Statute for Venezuelans in Colombia: Normalising Exceptionality using Humanitarian Discourses’, Refugee Survey Quarterly, hdae007, pp. 1-23. doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdae007
Brown, S., Mena, R., and Brown, S. (2024). The peace dilemma in the triple nexus: challenges and opportunities for the humanitarian–development–peace approach. Development in Practice, 34(5), 568–584. doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2334774
Gómez, O.A., Lucatello, S. and Mena, R. (2024). ‘Chapter 32: The Latin American experience: inequality’s role in shaping humanitarianism’, in the Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality, pp. 458–473. doi.org/10.4337/9781802206555
Mena, R., Napier, D., Volkmman, A., Puri, A. Elessawi, R. & Smith, R. (2024). Social Sciences for Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action: Vision Paper on the Role of Community Engagement to Attaining Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) in Humanitarian Outcomes.
Adger, W.N., Fransen, S., de Campos, R.S. & ; Clark, W.C. (2024). Scientific frontiers on migration and sustainability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (3), e2321325121, National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321325121
Abu, M., Codjoe, S.N.A., Adger, W. N., Fransen, S., Jolivet, D., De Campos, R.S., Gavonel, M.F., Agyei-Asabere, C., Fábos, A.H. & Zickgraf, C. (2024). Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices: Insights from new migrant populations in growing urban settlements, Global Environmental Change, 84, 102790, Elsevier. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102790
2023
Müller-Funk, L., & Fransen, S. (2023). “I Will Return Strong”: The Role of Life Aspirations in Refugees’ Return Aspirations. International Migration Review, 57 (4), pp. 1739-1770. doi.org/10.1177/01979183221131554
Mena, R. (2023). ‘Advancing “no natural disasters” with care: risks and strategies to address disasters as political phenomena in conflict zones’, in Disasters and Prevention Management, 23 (6), pp. 14-28. doi/10.1108/DPM-08-2023-0197/
Cañete, K.Z., Clarin, C., Codiñera, M., and Velmonte, K. (2023). ‘No One Left Behind? A Case for Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction in the Philippines’. Disasters in the Philippines: Before and After Haiyan, pp. 220–247. doi.org/10.51952/9781529222920.ch011
Jolivet, D., Fransen, S., Adger, W. N., Fábos, A., Abu, M., Allen, C., … & Zickgraf, C. (2023). COVID-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration: insights from diverse cities in four continents. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10 (1), 1-13. doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01721-y
Fransen, S. Werntges, A., Hunns, A., Sirenko, M. & Comes, T. (2023). Refugee settlements are highly exposed to extreme weather conditions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (3), e2206189120, National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.220618912
Mena, R. (2023). ‘Commentary: Between instrumentalisation, depoliticisation, and legitimation of humanitarian action in Venezuela’, in Authoritarian Practices and Humanitarian Negotiations.
Munadi, S.M. and Mena, R. (2023). ‘Dilemmas of humanitarian negotiations with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan’, in Authoritarian Practices and Humanitarian Negotiations.
Ji H. and Ranon R. (2023). ‘Neglected and perpetual displacement of landless people demand urgent attention’. pp. 19-21. Climate Tribune.