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Published research

PhD thesis

Harries, K., Improving humanitarian impact: Development of an innovative guide for empowering technical field teams
Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Deakin University, 2023

The complete PhD thesis provides detailed analysis of the challenges facing technical field teams, the development process for FieldTiK, and evaluation by sector experts.

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Harries, K., Building stronger field teams for better outcomes: the Field Team Impact Kit
The Humanitarian Leader, August 2024

This paper describes the development of FieldTiK, the challenges facing humanitarian field teams, and how the approach addresses long-standing sector gaps. It includes feedback from sector experts and explores how FieldTiK can improve accountability, localisation, team well-being and humanitarian outcomes.

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Conference Presentations

• Development of an innovative guide to improve team performance, Development Studies
  Association of Australia Conference, July 2024

• Team-based holistic knowledge management, Knowledge Management Leadership Forum, Melbourne, April 2023

• Draft guidance to empower technical field teams in humanitarian organisations, 42nd WEDC Conference, Loughborough University, UK, September 2021

• Empowering technical field teams: Interactive feedback session, Asia Pacific Humanitarian Leadership Conference, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, April 2021

• An innovative approach to knowledge management for humanitarian organisations, 1st Asia Pacific Humanitarian Leaders Conference, April 2017

Earlier Publications

• An innovative framework for embedding knowledge management in an organisation: A manager's perspective, 40th WEDC International Conference, July 2017

• Pacific WASH in Emergencies Coordination Handbook, developed for UNICEF Pacific, 2017