The Team

HUMANITY is led by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow and supervised by a leading scholar at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester.

Fellow

Dr. Ümit Seven

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester

Ümit Seven is a social scientist researching humanitarian action, sovereignty, and conflict. He completed his PhD at the Middle East Technical University with a dissertation on The Politics of Humanitarian Assistance in Syria's Civil War.

He previously worked for NATO and the United Nations and served as a guest researcher at the Center for Security Studies (ETH Zurich).

Research Focus

State responses to international humanitarian assistance in civil wars

Sovereignty and humanitarian governance in conflict settings

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Supervisor

Dr. Miriam Bradley

Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies

Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester

Miriam Bradley is a Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies. Prior to joining HCRI in 2023, she was an Associate Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), and she has also held research and teaching positions at the Geneva Graduate Institute, UCL, the University of Oxford, and Oxford Brookes University.

She is the author of two books: Protecting Civilians in War: The ICRC, UNHCR, and their Limitations in Internal Armed Conflicts (OUP 2016) and The Politics and Everyday Practice of International Humanitarianism (OUP 2023).

Selected Publications

The Politics and Everyday Practice of International Humanitarianism — Oxford University Press, 2023

Protecting Civilians in War: The ICRC, UNHCR, and Their Limitations in Internal Armed Conflicts — Oxford University Press, 2016

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Host Institution

Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute

HUMANITY is hosted at HCRI, University of Manchester — a world-leading centre for humanitarian studies, bridging academic research with field practice and policy engagement.

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Research Excellence

World-leading humanitarian studies programme

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Global Partnerships

Network bridging research and field practice

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Postgraduate Research

MA and PhD programmes in humanitarian studies