Akademische und nicht-akademische Tätigkeiten

• Seit April 2021: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im BMBF-Forschungsprojekt ‘Tsunami Risk in Indonesien’ an der Katastrophenforschungsstelle
• 2016-2020: Promovendi und Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Dutch Research Council Projekt ‘When Disaster meets Conflict’ am International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
• 2015-2016: Projektbeauftragte (COP21), Internationale Föderation des Roten Kreuzes, Genf
• 2015: Projektkoordinatorin, Coalition Climat 21 und Alternatiba Strasbourg
• 2014-2015: Consultant, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Addis Ababa
• 2014-2015: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin für den NGO-Verband ‚Partners for Resilence’, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
• 2012-2014: Studentische Hilfskraft, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• 2013: Praktikantin, Department of Environmental Ressource Management, City of Cape Town
• 2011: Praktikantin, UNDP Regional Centre for Europe and Central Asia, Bratislava
• 2010: Praktikantin, Max Havelaar France, Paris

Studium

• 2016-2020: PhD, ISS, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
• 2012-2014: M. Sc. Research Master International Development Studies (cum laude), Universiteit van Amsterdam
• 2013: Studien- und Forschungsaufenthalt in Südafrika, University of Cape Town
• 2008-2011: B.Sc. Geographie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Mitgliedschaften

• Civic Innovation Forschungsgruppe am International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• IHSA – International Humanitarian Studies Association
• EADI – European Association of Development Institutes

Gutachtertätigkeiten

• Die Friedens-Warte - Journal of International Peace and Organization 
• Les Cahiers d´Outre-Mer
• Development and Change
• Disaster Prevention and Management
• International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
• Journal of Disaster Risk Studies: Jamba
• Journal of International Humanitarian Action
• South African Geographical Journal

• SS 2018/2019 ‘The Humanitarian Theatre in Ethiopia – Analysing Discourses of the Disaster-Conflict Nexus’. Gastvorträge im Seminar ‘Violent Conflict and the Politics of Media Representation’, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
• WS 2017/2018 Masterarbeitsbetreuung, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Sozialwissenschaftliche Katastrophenforschung zu Katastrophengenese, -kulturen und -schutz
• Humanitäre Hilfe und deren De·politisierung
• Resilienz und Anpassung an den Klimawandel
• Konfliktforschung, Zivilgesellschaft und politische Mobilisierung

Wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften (peer-reviewed)

• Desportes, I. and Moyo-Nyoni, N. (2021). Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–2019 droughts in Zimbabwe. Disasters. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12516 
• Desportes, I. and Hilhorst, D. (2020). Disaster governance in conflict-affected authoritarian contexts: The cases of Ethiopia, Myanmar and Zimbabwe. Politics and Governance, 8(4), 343-354.
• Desportes, I. (2019). Getting relief to marginalised minorities: The response to cyclone Komen in 2015 in Myanmar. International Journal of Humanitarian Action, 4(7), 1-16.
• Desportes, I., Mandefro, H., and Hilhorst, D. (2019). The humanitarian theatre: Drought response during Ethiopia's low-intensity conflict of 2016. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57(1), 31-59.
• Kuipers, E.H.C., Desportes, I., and Hordijk, M.A. (2019). Of locals and insiders: A ‘localized’ humanitarian response to the 2017 Mocoa mudslide in Colombia? Disaster Prevention and Management, 29(3), 352-364.
• Hilhorst, D., Desportes, I. and de Miliano, C. (2019). Humanitarian governance and resilience building: Ethiopia in comparative perspective. Disasters, 43, S109-S131
• Desportes, I., and Colenbrander, D. (2016). Navigating interests, navigating knowledge: Towards an inclusive set-back delineation along Cape Town’s coastline. Habitat International, 54(2), 124-135.
• Desportes, I., Waddell, J., and Hordijk, M. (2015). Improving flood risk governance through multi -stakeholder collaboration: A case study of Sweet Home informal settlement, Cape Town. South African Geographical Journal, 98(1), 61-83.

Artikel in Sammelband (peer-reviewed)

• Hilhorst, D, Mena Fluhmann, R., van Voorst, R., Desportes, I. and Melis, S. (2019). Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response in Different Conflict Scenarios.Opens external In Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) 2019. Geneva: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

Blogs und Zeitungsbeiträge

• Desportes, I. (2020). Disaster response: Why democracy matters. (blog). European Association of Development Institutes Blog – Debating Development Research. (available: 14 July 2020).
• Desportes, I. (2020). Another top priority in times of crisis: Keep democratic life up and running. (blog). blISS - The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. (available: 26 Mar 2020).
• Hilhorst, D. and Desportes, I. (2019). Counter-terrorism laws are undermining humanitarian relief, and are set to get worse today. (blog).Oxfam Blogs. (available: 12 November 2019).
• Hilhorst, D. and Desportes, I. (2019). De anti-terrorisme wet heeft een lelijk neveneffect. (newspaper opinion piece). Trouw. (available: 12 November 2019).
• van Voorst R. and Desportes, I. (2018). (How) should scholars say what humanitarians can't? (blog). blISS - The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. (available 16 May 2018).

Working-Paper/Forschungsberichte

• Hilhorst, D., Vervest, M.J., Desportes, I., Melis, S., Mena, R. and van Voorst, R. (2021). Strengthening community resilience in conflict. The Hague: Partners for Resilience.
• Desportes, I. (2020). Politics of disaster response in authoritarian low-intensity conflict settings. ISS Research brief. The Hague: International Insitute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• Hilhorst, D., Desportes, I., Melis, S., Mena, R., and van Voorst, R. (2020). When Disaster Meets Conflict: A scenario-based approach to the politics of disaster governance in conflict settings. ISS Research brief. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• Hilhorst, D., Vervest, M. J., Desportes, I., Melis, S., Mena, R. and van Voorst, R. (2020). Strengthening community resilience in conflict: learnings from the Partners for Resilience programme.Opens external. ISS Working Papers - General Series, no 666. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• Desportes, I. (2019). Myanmar: The controversial issue of minorities in responding to cyclone Komen in 2015. ISS Research brief. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• Desportes, I. (2019). Ethiopia: Responding to the 2016 drought amid political protest and a state of emergency. ISS Research brief. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• Desportes, I. (2015). Partners for Resilience in Ethiopia, Country Case for the Qualitative Process and Impact Study. Groningen: University of Groningen.

Verschiedenes

• Desportes, I. (2020, November 5). Repression Without Resistance: Disaster Responses in Authoritarian Low-Intensity Conflict Settings. EUR (153 pag.) (The Hague). Prom./coprom.: prof.dr.ir. D.J.M. Hilhorst & R. Van Voorst.
• Desportes, I. (2014, February 7). We’ve got to address the underlying causes. A case-study of stakeholders ́ initiatives to increase resilience to flood riskinSweet Home informal settlement, Cape Town. University of Amsterdam (114 pag.). Amsterdam. Supervision : dr. M. Hordijk.