Larissa Fast is an External Associate at PRIO.
Additional positions:
Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies HCRI, University of Manchester
Email: larissa.fast@manchester.ac.uk
Work phone: +44 (0)161 275 3419
Twitter: @aidindanger
Website: www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/larissa.fast.html
News
Wednesday, 1 Sep 2021
PRIO Global Fellow Larissa Fast has been appointed Executive Director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester. Professor Fast is a Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies at the Institute and has spent the last three years as part of HCRI's senior leadership. She is also a member of the PRIO project "Do No Harm: Ethical Humanitarian Innovation and Digital Bodies".
Larissa Fast has worked at the intersection of the worlds of academia, policy, and practice for over two decades. Her research addresses two fundamental problems: how best to protect civilians, particularly those who intervene in violent conflict, and how to make such intervention more effective, ethical, and responsive to local needs and circumstances. In addition to her book Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of Humanitarianism (2014), she has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles and policy reports. Her research has been funded by the US Institute of Peace, US Agency for International Development, Swiss Development Corporation, UK Department for International Development, UK ESRC, Research Council of Norway, and Wellcome Trust.
Larissa has worked in academia, government, and for non-government agencies. Prior to her current position as Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies at the University of Manchester, she was Senior Research Fellow at ODI's Humanitarian Policy Group, a Fulbright-Schuman Research Scholar (2016-2017), and a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow (2014-2016) at USAID's Global Development Lab. She also held faculty positions at the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and Conrad Grebel University College (University of Waterloo, Canada).
Report - External Series
Journal Article in Disasters
Report finds ‘Do no digital harm’ has emerged as an important humanitarian imperative, following contributions from PRIO project.
PRIO Global Fellow Larissa Fast has been appointed Executive Director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester. Professor Fast is a Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies at the Institute and has spent the last three years as part of HCRI's senior leadership. She is also a member of the PRIO project "Do No Harm: Ethical Humanitarian Innovation and Digital Bodies".
PRIO welcomes seven new researchers to the PRIO Global Fellows Programme. Fellowships are awarded to a diverse group of international academics from different academical backgrounds. Global Fellows have distinguished themselves through a strong record of academical contribution and are awarded the fellowship following the nomination by PRIO staff.