Claire Travers

Claire Louise Travers is a final-stage doctoral researcher, and level 4 teacher and course coordinator in the Supply Chain Management subject. Her doctoral thesis focuses on humanitarian logistics, specifically on local procurement and market-aligned aid provision. Her composite thesis is expected to be defended in academic year 2025-26. 

Claire received a 2020 Safer Complex Systems independent researcher grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Lloyds Register. Claire's doctoral work is funded by Liikesivistysrahasto myöntää apurahaa kauppatieteeliseen tutkimukseen (lsr.fi) Alfred Kordelin Foundation and the Auramo Foundation (auramo-saatio.fi). 

Previous Publications:

Travers, C L. (2024) Leveraging Local Capital in Humanitarian Supply Networks During Pandemic Response. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 106, 104421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104421 Scimago ranked 1.194

Travers, C L (2026) Localisation. In Eds. Altay, N & Pal, R. Handbook on Humanitarian Logistics.

Kirkwood-Wright, T & Travers, C L. (2025) Entry: Humanitarian Logistics. In Elgar Encyclopaedia of Transport and Society

Conference Papers:

1. Travers, C L & Vega D. (2025) Social Capital and Supply Chain Resilience: Activation, Adaptation, and Proximity. Proceedings of the INSNA Sunbelt Conference (2024)
2. Travers, C L, Kovacs, G & Vega, D. (2024) The Art of the State: emerging dialogue and critical events from policy and literature. Proceedings of the European Operations Management Association (EUROMA 2024)
3. Travers, C L. (2023) Theres something wrong with EMMA: the information gaps in supply side of market based humanitarian response. Proceedings of the International Conference on Humanitarian Crisis Management (KRISIS 2023), M. Drakaki, D. Vega (Editors). Institute for the Management of Refugee Flows and Crises, University Research Center, International Hellenic University, ISBN 978-618-5630-17-1 (e-book)
    

White Papers/Others:

4. Travers, C L & Lowe, A. (2021) Humanitarian Supply Chains and Complex Systems Failure: a short case study of COVID-19. Engineering X: Royal Academy of Engineering
5. An analysis of NFI tariff rates for Nepalese market assessment. (2020) FCOD
6. Indigenous Market for NFIs; CGI & Plastic Sheeting in Haiti. (2020) Palladium: FCOD.