Natascha Mueller-Hirth is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Robert Gordon University Aberdeen in Scotland. Her research utilises qualitative methodologies to examine issues around peace, conflict, development and gender in South Africa and in Kenya. She has published on time and temporality in transitional societies, NGOs and civil society, the governance of development and corporate social responsibility. She is co-editor of Time and Temporality in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies (2018) and co-author of The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding (2018).