Collaborators

Given the complexity of responder perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse (RP SEA) in conflict affected and humanitarian contexts, meaningful collaboration across disciplines, sectors, and areas of expertise is essential. The Management Team, Consultants, Co supervisors, Contributors, and Affiliates bring diverse knowledge, experience, perspectives, and networks that strengthen the project’s research, implementation, and impact. Together, they support a rigorous, inclusive, and context responsive approach grounded in principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Management

Jessica Montagner

Jessica Montagner is the Research Manager for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Queen’s University, overseeing research operations and administration in partnership with Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). With a strong foundation in research ethics and project management, she leads the coordination and administration of a diverse portfolio of studies. Jessica specializes in optimizing workflows and fostering collaboration across academic, clinical, and institutional teams, ensuring the department’s research portfolio is delivered with operational excellence, ethical rigor, and meaningful impact.

Research/Project Manager

Queen's University

Adelaide Akuetteh

Adelaide supports project coordination, financial management, and administrative operations. She holds a master’s degree in Conflict Studies and has over eight years of experience in safety, security, and stakeholder engagement. Her experience includes collaborating with diverse actors and supporting the implementation of policies and processes that promote accountability and effective coordination. Her work focuses on conflict dynamics, human security, and protection challenges in humanitarian settings. She has engaged with research on transnational violence, gender-based violence, and sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping contexts, with particular attention to how institutional structures and power dynamics shape access to protection and justice. Her interests include accountability, protection frameworks, and the experiences of vulnerable populations in conflict- affected environments.

Project and Finance Administrator

Queen's University

Funmi Akinleye

Funmi supports research, knowledge mobilization, and project activities for RESPONDER at Queen’s University. She holds a master’s degree in Geological Sciences from Queen’s University and brings experience in research, data analysis, technical communication, and interdisciplinary project support. Her work with RESPONDER includes contributing to reports and manuscripts, evidence synthesis, digital content development, and the communication of research findings for diverse audiences. Her interests include the use of data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies to support research and decision making, as well as improving how complex evidence is translated into accessible and actionable information. Through her work with RESPONDER, she has contributed to research and knowledge products related to humanitarian settings, sexual exploitation and abuse, and the broader challenges affecting vulnerable populations in conflict affected contexts.

Website Administrator

Queen's Univeristy

Consultants

Ashton Drew PhD

Dr. Ashton Drew is the owner of KDV Decisions North (Yukon, Canada). Her team helps organizations make complex decisions by combining expertise in natural and social sciences with data analytics, workshop facilitation, and software development.

Data Consultant

KDV Decisions

Mary Wickenden

Mary Wickenden is an anthropologist leading research on disability within international development at the Institute of Development Studies, UK. She has a particular interest in exploring the lives and perspectives of adults and children with disabilities and their families using qualitative, inclusive, participatory approaches, including arts based creative methods. Her work is mainly in South Asia, East , Southern and West Africa. Areas of focus and interest include: inclusive employment, inclusive education, community based inclusive development, identity and intersectionality, sexuality, violence, abuse and neglect, working with the most marginalised and excluded groups and mainstreaming of disability aspects across sectors in research and in policy and action.

Disability Consultant

Independent Consultant

Co-supervisors

Meghan Campbell

Meghan Campbell is a Professor of International Human Rights Law. Her research focuses on women’s economic inequality and overlooked aspects of women's equality including on rurality, the procedural rules on international access to justice and temporality. Her first monograph, Women, Poverty, Equality (Hart 2018) examined women's poverty in the CEDAW and her second, supported with a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women's Equality (Hart 2025), looks at the relationship between women's equality and limits on rights. She is the editor of two collection, Human Rights and Equality in Education (Policy Press 2018) and Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice (Edward-Elgar 2023). She has collaborated on a range of human rights projects with the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization, the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, the South African Human Rights Commission and civil society groups including the Equal Rights Trust and Centre for Child Rights. She has acted as an independent expert advisor to the Council of Europe on comprehensive sexuality education and the UK Cabinet Office on equal pay.

Professor of International Human Rights Law

University of Birmingham

Contributors & Affiliates

Luissa Vahedi, PhD

Dr. Luissa Vahedi is a PhD-trained epidemiologist working at the intersection of research, policy, and practice to address global public health challenges. Her work focuses on the fragility of public services and the links between violence and population health, particularly for women and children. Since 2017, she has led projects spanning survey research, systematic reviews, and advanced quantitative and qualitative analysis, integrating gender and violence protections into social policy and humanitarian programs. She is passionate about translating rigorous research and lived experience into actionable evidence that reduces health disparities and informs real-world policy and practice

Epidemiologist

Sickkids Center for Global Child Health

Kirstin Wagner, PhD

Dr Kirstin Wagner is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham working at the intersection of humanitarian protection, conflict-related sexual violence, and evidence-informed policy. She is part of the Rights for Time research network, where her work examines the documentation, governance, and long-term impacts of sexual violence in humanitarian and peacekeeping contexts. Her research focuses on survivor-centred documentation practices, ethical data governance, and the translation of research evidence into policy and operational guidance for international organisations and frontline actors. Kirstin completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham, where she examined sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers and its long-term impacts on women and children in post-conflict settings.

Research Fellow