Dr Evelyn Pauls
London School of Economics and Political Science
Dr Evelyn Pauls is the Impact Manager of the Hub and a Co-Investigator on the Methodological Innovation stream. Her participatory action research project examines the reintegration of female ex-combatants in Colombia and Uganda as well as Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines through documentary filmmaking. Her research interests include gender and conflict, participatory and visual methods and research impact.
Evelyn is a researcher at the Berghof Foundation. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the LSE, which focused on child combatants in Sierra Leone and Myanmar, an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a BA in Political Science and Public Law from the University of Mannheim.

Areas of interest
Participatory methods; research impact; women in conflictPublications
- “Imagining a different reality: Filmmaking and Research”, Centre for Freedom of the Media (2021)
- “Funding cuts undermine the global impact of research and its value as an emancipatory project”, LSE Impact Blog (2021)
- “Female fighters shooting back: representation and filmmaking in post-conflict societies”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 22:5 (2020): 697-719
- I Have to Speak – Voices of Female Ex-Combatants from Aceh, Burundi, Mindanao and Nepal (Berlin: Berghof Foundation, 2020).
- “Introduction: Racialized Realities in World Politics”, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 45:3 (2017): 267-268.