Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert is a Senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and currently an associate researcher at the CERI. Her research is at the intersection of the fields of humanitarianism, migration, security and technology. 

In the field of humanitarian studies, she has worked on Europe’s humanitarian borders, and written about “citizen humanitarianism” as a form of assistance seeking to contest both state-led responses and more organized humanitarian responses. This includes an interest in understanding how citizens and volunteers mobilize in times of crises, eg. during the European refugee reception crisis and the Covid pandemic. She is currently exploring the topic of humanitarian communication – reshaped by new technologies and evolving expectations. 

In the field of security studies and migration studies, she has led and been involved in several research projects on the EU's external border surveillance, migration policies, as well as Search and Rescue efforts in the Mediterranean. 

Since joining PRIO in 2011, she has been central in building up the Humanitarianism Research group and the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS), which she led from 2016-2020, and co-led from 2021-2023.

Humanitarian communication, NGO-led Search and rescue in the Mediterranean, citizen mobilization during the Covid pandemic

Jumbert, MG, Sandvik, KB, Tjønn, MH (2023) If ‘it all breaks down’: The Norwegian refugee crisis as a geography of chaos. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41:5, October 2023, 910-928.

Jumbert, MG (2021) Making it “easy to help”: Norwegian volunteer initiatives for refugees. International Migration. Jumbert, MG & Pascucci, E, eds (2021), Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders, Oxon, New York: Routledge.

Martins, BO & Jumbert, MG (2020) EU border technologies and the co-production of security ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Wilson, C & Jumbert MG (2018) The new informatics of pandemic response: humanitarian technology, efficiency, and the subtle retreat of national agency. Journal of International Humanitarian Affairs, 3(8): 1-13.

Jumbert, MG (2018) Control or rescue at sea? Aims and limits of border surveillance technologies in the Mediterranean Sea. Disasters. doi: 10.1111/disa.12286.

Sandvik, KB & Jumbert, MG, eds, (2016) The Good Drone, Oxon, New York: Routledge.

Sandvik, KB, Jumbert, MG, Karlsrud, J & Kaufmann, M (2014) Humanitarian technology: a critical research agenda. International Review of the Red Cross, 96(893): 219-242.

Jumbert, MG (2014) How Sudan’s ’rogue’ state label shaped US responses to the Darfur conflict: what’s the problem and who’s in charge? Third World Quarterly, 35(2): 35-48.

Jumbert, MG & Lanz, D (2013) Globalised Rebellion: The Darfur insurgents and the world. Modern African Studies, 51(2): 193-217