Cathrine Brun

Professor Brun is a human geographer and her research-interests concern forced migration and conflict, housing and home; theory, ethics and practice of humanitarianism. Her approach to research is qualitative and ethnographic with action research as a central way of co-producing knowledge. Cathrine has a PhD in human geography from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and has worked with forced displacement, disasters and urban development in Sri Lanka, Georgia, Malawi, Uganda, Jordan and Lebanon. Prior to joining the CLS, she was a Professor in Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (till 2015) and the Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University (on leave from 2021).