Kerrie Thornhill
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Child Soldiers
- Climate-Related Issues
- Disability
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Ex-Combatant Reintegration
- FGM/FGC
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
- HIV/AIDS
- Journalist Persecution
- Land Tenure Dispute
- LGBTQ
- Likelihood Of Destitution/Homelessness
- Mental Illness
- Political Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Safe Internal Relocation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Specialized Medical Services
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Kerrie Thornhill
Dr Thornhill is a specialist in the history and anthropology of West Africa, especially related to armed conflict, gender-based violence, and traditional harmful practices. For the past 17 years she has lived and worked across West Africa, in particular Liberia and Ghana, as well as Benin, Burkina Faso, and Côte d’Ivoire. Since 2019 she has worked as the Director of an Oxfordshire-based research company, Résolu Ltd. Some of her recent projects with Résolu include fragility assessments for the African Development Bank, field research on health systems in Côte d’Ivoire, and gender-based violence prevention for academics and policy makers. Prior to founding Résolu, Dr Thornhill worked as an Assistant Professor in Gender Violence at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a Tutor in Gender, Geography and Environment at University of Oxford, and various other roles related to complex humanitarian emergencies in West Africa. Her work has been published in Routledge, Third World Quarterly, and Democracy In Africa. She completed her DPhil at University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment in 2016. Dr Thornhill has produced expert reports since 2012.
