Tanja Mueller

Biography

Tanja is Senior Lecturer in Global Development, and a founding member and former director of research (2010-2014) of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute.

She received an MA in Linguistics and Philosophy (1991) at the Free University Berlin, an MSc in Development Studies at University College Dublin (1994), and a Ph.D. in Development Studies (2003) at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Over the past decades she has worked as a university lecturer in Dublin (1991-1993) and Asmara (2000-2001), as an education consultant in Japan (1997-1999), and as a journalist on development-related issues (1994-2000). She was assistant professor at Wageningen University from 2003-2005 with the programme African Women Leaders in Agriculture and the Environment (AWLAE), where she worked on the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. Tanja joined the University of Manchester in January 2006. Major themes of her research are (1) revolutions, rebel governance and new elites, explored for example in relation to the case of Eritrea in the book The Making of Elite Women: Revolution and Nation Building in Eritrea (2005); (2) patterns of global solidarity, explored in a case study from Mozambique in the book Legacies of Socialist Solidarity (2014), and the dynamics of celebrity humanitarianism; and (3) global rights, explored in relation to refugee trajectories and the concept of humanitarian or insurgent citizenship as forms of resistance.

Further information

Leadership Positions

2017 -

Co-convenor Manchester Migration Lab (http://www.migrationlab.manchester.ac.uk/)

2016 - 2017

Deputy Programme Director International Development MSc (all 8 pathways)

2015 -

SEED Teaching Assistant coordinator

2013 -

Convenor of the cross-disciplinary research group Humanitarianism and Development

2010 - 2014

Director of Research, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute

2010 - 2016

SEED Representative on University Ethics Committee 5, from 2014 Vice-chair of Committee 5

2010 - 2011

Cluster Convenor Social Development Cluster

Programme Director Masters Programmes in International Development (all pathways), Development Studies and Poverty and Development

2009 - 2012

IDPM Representative on the School Ethics Advisory Group

2009 - 2010

Chair IDPM Institute Forum

2007 - 2008

Deputy Programme Director Masters Programmes in International Development (all pathways) and Development Studies

2006

Convenor International Development Seminar Series

Involvement in External Consultancy

International monitoring and quality control of ACP international work programme to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of support to HIV affected persons in southern Africa (2010-2013)

Evaluation research consultancy within the ACP Science and Technology Programme (2010-2013) that is funding a consortium of institutions, of which the University of Manchester is a member, to a total cost of over Euro 1.2 million, to deliver a community based system (CoBaSys) in HIV Treatment. Other consortium members are the Universita Degli Studi Di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), University of Bologna, University of Helsinki, University of Malawi, Research for Equity and Community Health Trust (Malawi), Training and Research Support Centre, (Zimbabwe), University of Dar es Salaam, University Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique), University of Botswana, University of Namibia, European AIDS Treatment Group, (Belgium), Usokami Health Centre (United Republic of Tanzania) and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe.

External Evaluator for the Programme of Strategic Cooperation between Irish Aid and Higher-Education and Research Institutes (2007-2011)

Evaluating programme proposals in the field of public health and HIV/AIDS between Irish institutions and counterparts in sub-Saharan Africa with a clear agenda to influence future policy.

Other Information

_ 2012 - 2013 _

International Convenor, XV Comparative Education World Congress, Buenos Aires June 2013

_ 2012 - _

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Media and Communication Studies

2010 -

Review Editor, Journal of Development Studies

_ 200 __ 9 - 2012 _

Member of the Executive Committee, British Association for Comparative and International Education