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Biography

Dr. Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete is a Filipino feminist scholar with training in Anthropology and Critical Development Studies. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Humanitarian Studies Centre of the International Institute of Social Studies, ��Ů������ӰԺ��ҹ. She is also Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and an Editor of Journal of Disaster Studies. She approaches the study of humanitarian governance through the lens of the ‘everyday’, particularly with a feminist perspective. Having worked for more than 15 years as an academic, a development practitioner, and as a women’s rights advocate (in the Philippines, in Australia, and now in the Netherlands), Dr. Alburo- Cañete has developed a keen interest in understanding the everyday politics and ethics of living with, responding to, and recovering from disasters and other forms of crises. She has an upcoming book, Disaster Recovery through Women's Eyes: Reimagining Resilience based on a critical ethnographic account of women's experiences of disaster reconstruction in post-Yolanda Tacloban City, Philippines.

Dr. Alburo- Cañete co-coordinates the MA programme “Societies in Crisis: Humanitarian Action and Policy Responses”, a one-year programme that prepares students to contribute to responding to complex societal crises, including climate change, natural hazards, war, or mass displacement.

She completed her PhD in Development Studies at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) in 2021, where her research won the Dean’s Award for Outstanding thesis. She also won the John Legge Prize for Best Thesis in Asian Studies awarded by the Asian Studies Association of Australia.