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Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete is a Filipino feminist scholar with expertise in Anthropology and Critical Development Studies. Currently serving as a Senior Researcher at the Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre at the International Institute of Social Studies (Erasmus University Rotterdam), she also holds a position as an adjunct senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and is the Editor of the Journal of Disaster Studies. With over 15 years of experience as an academic, development practitioner, and women's rights advocate across the Philippines, Australia, and the Netherlands, Dr. Alburo-Cañete focuses on understanding the everyday politics and ethics of disaster recovery, particularly through a feminist lens. She is working on her upcoming book, 'Disaster Recovery Through Women's Eyes: Reimagining Resilience', which provides a critical ethnographic account of women's experiences in disaster reconstruction following Yolanda in Tacloban City, Philippines. Dr. Alburo-Cañete completed her PhD in Development Studies at the University of New South Wales in 2021, where her research earned the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Thesis and the John Legge Prize for her thesis in Asian Studies, awarded by the Asian Studies Association of Australia.
Department of Econometrics / MSc Econometrics and Management Science.