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Jennifer Bates

Jennifer Bates

Research Associate in the Department of War Studies

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Biography

Jennifer is a Research Associate in the Department of War Studies, working on the project, Mapping Injury, led by Professor Vivienne Jabri, and selected by the ERC Advanced, funded by the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee. The project investigates ‘injury’ in its multiple sites and manifestations in the Global South, and its impact on political agency and global mechanisms of response. Jennifer’s research on the project focuses on Colombia.

Jennifer holds a BSc in Spanish and Politics from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She wrote her ESRC-funded PhD on the feminist politics and agency of female ex-combatants from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL). During her PhD she also worked as a co-editor of KCL’s Feminist Perspectives blog and a research assistant on the Erasmus+ funded project ‘ARTHEWE Multiform Pedagogy in Arts, Health and Well-being Education.’ Her research focus in the Mapping Injury project is on the politics of injury relating to indigenous communities in Colombia.

Research interests:

  • Colombian politics
  • Feminist activism and theories
  • Gender, conflict and peacebuilding

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Research

Mapping Injury image copy (1)
Mapping Injury

Mapping Injury investigates ‘injury’ in its multiple iterations and manifestations and its impact on political agency and global mechanisms of response.

Project status: Ongoing

Events

06SepA Symposium on Injury, Global Justice and the Political

A Symposium on Injury, Global Justice and the Political

This interdisciplinary symposium provides a unique opportunity to bring together a group of scholars and practitioners who seek to place questions of the...

Please note: this event has passed.

Features

Reimagining fieldwork during and beyond the pandemic

Could COVID-19 provide an opportune time for us to rethink how we conduct research in ways that counteract extractivism and unequal power relations?

AuthaGraph world map

Research

Mapping Injury image copy (1)
Mapping Injury

Mapping Injury investigates ‘injury’ in its multiple iterations and manifestations and its impact on political agency and global mechanisms of response.

Project status: Ongoing

Events

06SepA Symposium on Injury, Global Justice and the Political

A Symposium on Injury, Global Justice and the Political

This interdisciplinary symposium provides a unique opportunity to bring together a group of scholars and practitioners who seek to place questions of the...

Please note: this event has passed.

Features

Reimagining fieldwork during and beyond the pandemic

Could COVID-19 provide an opportune time for us to rethink how we conduct research in ways that counteract extractivism and unequal power relations?

AuthaGraph world map