Ms Phoebe Shambaugh

As postdoctoral research associate on the AHRC Grant 'Children of War: Evolving Local and Global Understandings of Child Soldiering in Conflict, 1940-2000’, I am responsible for the Uganda case study component. I have recently finished my Phd at the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, where my research focused the politics of future-making embedded in education in protracted displacement, considering education as a humanitarian concern; as an aspirational and future-oriented project of refugee groups; and as a governance tool of states and local authorities. This research was grounded through a historical case study of Bolton, Greater Manchester, drawing on interviews, local and media archives, and document analysis, but sought to look beyond the local case to situate education provision in Bolton within broader national and global dimensions of circulating humanitarian imaginaries, colonial legacies and political projects of aid and border securitization.

Alongside my Phd, I worked as the Managing Editor for the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, co-published with HCRI, Save the Children, and Medecins sans frontiers, and I remain on the editorial board. Prior to my phd, I worked in and around the aid sector including for the ICRC, the Global Fund and NORRAG, and have done research or professional work on/in in Ghana, Kenya, the West Bank and (briefly) Lebanon.