Completed PhD Candidates

Overview of completed PhD candidates, ordered by year.

2024Mausumi ChetiaOn the run at home: The Everyday Human Security of Riverbank Erosion-induced Displaced People in Assam, India
2022Willem van EekelenSocio-Economic Development in the Rural Global South and the Role of Official Development Assistance – An evaluator’s narrative
2020Rodrigo Mena FluhmannDisasters in Conflict – Understanding disaster governance, response, and risk reduction
during high-intensity conflict in South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Yemen
2020Samantha MelisConstructing disaster response governance
in post-conflict settings:
Contention, collaboration and compromise
2020Isabelle DesportesRepression without Resistance
Disaster Responses in Authoritarian Low-intensity Conflict Settings
2019 Gloria NguyaLivelihood Strategies of Internally Displaced Persons in Urban Eastern DRC
2019Luna Kc GhimireConflict, Disaster and Changing Gender Roles in Nepal: Women’s Everyday Experiences
2018 Bodille ArensmanNegotiating effectiveness: The politics of results in advocacy for development and its evaluation
2018Teddy AtimLooking Beyond Conflict: The Long-term Impact of Suffering War Crimes on Recovery in Post-conflict northern Uganda
2018Jose A. DiemelMining Reform, Governance and the State in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The traces ‘conflict-mineral’ policy left behind on natural resource governance in Katanga
2018Annisa Gita SrikandiniPolitics of Disaster Risk Governance in Indonesia and Myanmar. A study into the dynamics of governance network on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
2017 Bwimana AembeNetworked Health Sector Governance and State-building Legitimacy in Conflict-affected Fragile States. The Variable Impact of Non-state Provision of Public Health Services in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
2017 Claude Iguma WakengeStadium Coltan – Artisanal Mining, Reforms and Social Change in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
2017Gayathri Lokuge‘Even fish have an ethnicity’: Livelihoods and Identities of Men and Women in War-affected Coastal Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
2017Marie-Rose Bashwira NenyeziNavigating obstacles, opportunities and reforms: Women’s lives and livelihoods in artisanal mining communities in eastern DRC
2014Rens TwijnstraOn the State of Business: Trade, Entrepreneurship and Real Economic Governance in South Sudan
2014Winnie W. WairimuTransition or stagnation? Everyday life, food security and recovery in post conflict northern Uganda
2014Patrick Milabyo KyamusugulwaCommunity-driven reconstruction in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: capacity building, accountability, power, labour, and ownership
2014Lotte Vermeij“The Bullets Sound Like Music To My Ears” Socialization of Child Soldiers within African Rebel Groups
2012Aschale SiyoumBroken Promises: Food Security Interventions and Rural Livelihoods in Ethiopia
2012Annelies HeijmansRisky encounters: Institutions and interventions in response to recurrent disasters and conflict
2012Maliana SerranoStrengthening institutions or institutionalising weaknesses? Interactions between aid and institutions in Huíla Province, Angola
2011Hilde van DijkhorstRural realities between crisis and normality; Livelihood strategies in Angola, 1975 – 2008
2011Bram JansenCreating space in a ‘naked city’: violence and identity in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya
2011Luís ArturContinuities in Crisis; everyday practices of disaster response and climate change adaptation in Mozambique
2008Mathijs van LeeuwenPartners in peace: discourses and practices of civil-society peacebuilding
2008Jeroen WarnerThe politics of flood insecurity: Framing contested river management projects
2006Eliab SimpungweWater, Stakeholders and Common Ground. Challenges for Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Water Resource Management in South Africa