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Dr Katerina Strani is Associate Professor and Migration Theme lead at the Intercultural Research Centre at Heriot-Watt University. Katerina has a background in languages and politics. She has published papers on intercultural dialogue, racism and hate speech, language and heritage, and an edited volume on Multilingualism and Politics (Palgrave, 2020). Katerina has led EU-funded projects on racism and discrimination, and two language and culture apps, for newly arrived migrants and refugees, and for indigenous languages. She will be Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology and at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland in 2021-2022.

I'm a researcher at the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. My current research explores the interplay of mobility and regional transformations within the EU. Moreover, I'm interested in ethnography, remittances, migrant transnationalism, education, economic anthropology and inequality

Andrea Strutz, PD Dr., is Senior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War and a lecturer at the University of Graz.

Her research fields include historical migration studies, exile history, Jewish history and displacement, memory studies, National Socialism and restitution matters, biographical studies, theoretical and methodological questions of oral and video history.
Among other topics, Andrea Strutz researched life stories of Jewish displaced persons from Austria in the USA and analyzed the transformation and transmission of memories to the second and third generations. Her postdoctoral project examined the history of Austrian migration to Canada between 1890 and the 1960s, with a particular focus on Jewish immigration. She has widely published in the field of historical migration research, the history of exile (esp. in Canada), and the treatment of victims of National Socialism. She is co-producer of the video documentary "continental divide. divided lives" about memories and narratives in families of Austrian-Jewish displaced persons in New York.

She serves as Network Chair of the Oral History and Life Stories Network of the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen – BIOS”.
Since 2023, she is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Canadian Studies (ZKS). From 2017 to 2023, she was head of the History Section of the Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien (GKS) | Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries.
She is also co-speaker of the PhD program „Migration − Diversity − Global Societies“ at the University of Graz.

Janina Stürner-Siovitz works as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. She analyses governance of migration and displacement in complex multi-level systems. Taking a bottom-up perspective, she focuses on the interaction between cities, states and regional/international actors in the realization of the Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees, on EU migration policy-making as well as on migration movements related to climate change, conflict and inequality in African intermediary cities.

Selen Subasi is a PhD candidate in Educational Sciences at the University of Szeged. Her research interests are the education of minorities and refugees, lifelong learning, non-formal education and women’s education. Her master's thesis focused on the education of the Roma minority in Hungary. She is currently working on the engagement of Syrian refugees in non-formal education and psychological well-being.

Swetlana Sudheimer has been working as a researcher at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Hannover, Germany, since May 2017 and started to work as a doctoral candidate within the Research Area Educational Careers and Graduate Employment in January 2019. Her academic research fields are (higher) education research, migration research and methods of empirical social research.

First year PhD student in social policy, main field of research; the multidimensional concept of trust, especially the way social and institutional trust are intertwined in institutional encounters among forced migrants in the welfare state. I have a 4 years affiliation with the Åbo Akademi University of Finland at the Faculty for Education and Welfare State Studies.