This role sits within the ERC-funded project (November 2026 – October 2031) Health under Fire: An Investigation of the Protections IHL Affords Medical Units (HEAL), led by Prof. Neve Gordon of QMUL and collaborating with academics from the LSHTM, University of Manchester, and Insecurity Insight.  This five-year research project examines the impact of attacks on healthcare in armed conflicts and whether the laws of war regulating such attacks are fit for purpose

About You

The purpose of this post is to support the activities of the project team by coordinating between the Principal Investigator (PI) and six co-Investigators working in collaboration with a stakeholder network, which will meet regularly over the life of the project.

This includes organising workshops and public engagement events, providing administrative support to team members in the field, and assisting in audio-visual communications, stakeholder relations and social media activity.

The Project Co-ordinator will work with the PI and the rest of the team to ensure the successful delivery, logistical and financial administration, record-keeping, communications and publicising of the work undertaken by HEAL.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The School of Law is one of five schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and has two organisational units: the Department of Law and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). Established in 1965, the Department of Law runs thriving undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and has a well-established international reputation for innovative research.

Health under Fire: An Investigation of the Protections IHL Affords Medical Units is a project based in the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.