Senior Lecturer
University of East London, United States
Dr Kathryn Kraft is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of East London and Senior Research Advisor for Faith and Development at World Vision International. Her academic research has focused on faith and humanitarianism, spirituality in global child development and storytelling in social transformation. She has also worked in a variety of different roles within the international development and humanitarian aid field, in various countries across the Middle East and the wider Arab world, as well as Southeast Asia, Haiti, and West Africa. Through research and consultancy she has supported peacebuilding and conflict sensitivity work at the grassroots level, working with local charities and faith organisations to improve their monitoring and impact evaluation through storytelling as a data collection technique as a tool for peace and community reconciliation. Currently, as Senior Research Advisor for Faith and Development at World Vision international, she coordinates World Vision's strategic aim of building an evidence about the intersection between faith and development, including advising on research about the role of faith actors and faith leaders in social change, spiritual development as a part of child well-being, and the intersection between faith, values and ending violence against children.
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
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