Dr Myfanwy James

Myfanwy James specialises in the ethnographic study of humanitarianism, conflict and crisis, with a focus on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Her research examines how protracted crisis and humanitarian presence have influenced social and political life, shaping peoples’ understandings of the past and visions for the future. She has written about everyday negotiations for access between humanitarians and armed groups in conflict zones, the labour of locally hired humanitarians in humanitarian security, inequality in aid bureaucracies, as well as the contested legitimacy of medical research in epidemic contexts.

Myfanwy previously worked as a Lecturer at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, and as a Research Fellow at the Department of Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has also worked as an external research consultant for Médecins Sans Frontières. She holds a PhD (DPhil) from the University of Oxford.

Expertise

Humanitarianism, conflict, security, crisis, epidemics, migration, health, DRC

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