The Development and Humanitarianism pathway brings together complementary sets of interdisciplinary collaboration, spanning not only social sciences but also medical and environmental science.
Programmes eligible for NWSSDTP funding
N.B. Master’s programmes can only be funded as part of a 1+3/2+2 Studentship
Lancaster University
University of Liverpool
University of Manchester
- MA Humanitarian and Conflict Response
- MSc Research Methods for International Development
- MSc Environmental Governance
- PhD Humanitarianism and Conflict Response
- PhD Development Policy and Management
For information on how to apply for funding, please visit our How to Apply page.
Pathway Representatives
Contact details for Development and Humanitarianism in an Unequal World Pathway Representatives at each institution can be found here
Current Development and Humanitarianism in an Unequal World NWSSDTP students
Jack Hemingway (2018 Cohort)
- Lancaster University
- Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-hemingway-5b1997101
- Email address: j.hemingway@lancaster.ac.uk
- MethodsX Stream: Interview-based Qualitative Research
Groundwater Governance in South Africa: Domestic and Transboundary Governance, and Preparedness for Hydraulic Fracturing
The project will be exploring the groundwater governance arrangements of South Africa, particularly surrounding the developing unconventional oil and gas industry in the country. Using the ecologically pristine Karoo region as a study site, an evaluation of the institutional preparedness for hydraulic fracturing will be conducted, focussing on legislation, policy, stakeholders, and knowledge, information and science.
Anna Thurlbeck (2020 Cohort)

- University of Manchester
- Email Address: anna.thurlbeck@manchester.ac.uk
To what extent do ideational and socio-political factors become embedded in formal fiscal federal institutions over time and how do these factors shape distributive outcomes?
This research project will examine the present allocation of federal revenue amongst states in Nigeria with the main objective being the analysis of the socio-political and historical forces underlying the fiscal federalist system and the degree to which these forces shape formal redistributive processes.
Development and Humanitarianism in an Unequal World NWSSDTP Alumni
Margot Tudor (2017 Cohort)

- Formerly University of Manchester
- Website: https://margottudor.wordpress.com/
- Email: M.Tudor@exeter.ac.uk
Blue Helmet Bureaucracy: Peacekeeping as Colonial Ambition, a Lesson in Governance, and the Exploitation of ‘Humanitarianism’
This project historicises United Nations peacekeeping interventions in post-colonial contexts. It investigates how these missions provided legitimate environments for UN staff to direct the design of sovereignty in newly independent or decolonising territories. It challenges the concept of the UN as a homogenous humanitarian agency and demonstrates the divisive organisational anxieties bound up in the development of the post-colonial international order.