Erin is the Ivan Head South-North Chair (supported by the International Development Research Centre – Canada) and an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. Her research attends to the ways former combatants, survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and children ‘born of war’ remake and reimagine their worlds in the wash of war violence. She is author of Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, the UN and the Global Refugee Crisis (Ashgate, 2017) and Buried in the Heart: Complex victimhood and the war in northern Uganda (Cambridge, 2017).