Helene Juillard has 15 years’ experience evaluating, researching and managing emergency and early recovery responses. Throughout her career Helene managed, lead and delivered various scale qualitative and mixed-methods evaluations. Helene has been lecturing in Science Po Paris, in Manchester and Geneva Universities for the past 7 years on humanitarian project design and the use of cash and voucher assistance in crisis settings and as social protection tool.

Helene has joined IDS in 2024 as a PhD researcher focusing on how knowledge is created and translated in the humanitarian sector. Accompanied by Giel Ton and Philip Proudfoot, Helene explores the (mis)use of qualitative social research methods within humanitarian evaluations. The method is in large part the substance of this research. The ambition is through this PhD to debunk the made-up silos, between quantitative research methods, deemed rigorous and of value, and qualitative ones, used as a last resort measure.