Emily K M Scott Member Profile

Expertise	Country	Affiliation	Local
Conflict	Jordan, Lebanon, Syria	University of Birmingham
Emily K. M. Scott is Associate Professor and Director of Research in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham, UK and Associate Fellow at CIPSS McGill. Her research explores why and how power is exercised over conflict and crisis affected populations in and through humanitarian and development response. She also explores how these groups take power back, with a focus on the Middle East. Emily Scott is a leading scholar of localization, organizational behaviour, attacks on healthcare, and migration. Her current book project, Disruptive by Design: Health, Refugees, and Humanitarian Governance in the Middle East, examines the ways humanitarian boundaries were deliberately transformed by humanitarian organizations and aid workers in response to the War in Syria and refugee crisis in Lebanon and Jordan. Emily Scott’s research has appeared in journals, such as Perspectives on Politics, Global Studies Quarterly, World Development, Deadulus, and the Journal of Global Security Studies, amongst others, and she has been contributor to outlets including the Washington Post and the New Humanitarian. Emily Scott received my Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, is a Fulbright Alumna, and has held postdoctoral positions at the Josef Korbel School and McGill University.