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Tatiana Sitchinava is a Dr. of Human Geography (2023) from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. She is an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Demography and Sociology, Ilia State University, and a Researcher at the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies (CMDS) at Grigol Robakidze University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the integration of migrants, with a particular emphasis on the socio-economic integration of women migrants. She leads the EU COST Action "WeMov" (Women on the Move, CA19112). Tatiana represented Georgia at the 14th Global Forum on Migration and Development in 2023 and continues to advance migration studies through interdisciplinary research and global collaborations.

Tatiana Sitchinava is a Dr. of Human Geography (2023) from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. She is an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Demography and Sociology, Ilia State University, and a Researcher at the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies (CMDS) at Grigol Robakidze University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the integration of migrants, with a particular emphasis on the socio-economic integration of women migrants. She leads the EU COST Action "WeMov" (Women on the Move, CA19112). Tatiana represented Georgia at the 14th Global Forum on Migration and Development in 2023 and continues to advance migration studies through interdisciplinary research and global collaborations.

I currently work as Senior Research Associate in Qualitative Research at the University of Bristol. Prior to the current position, I worked as post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna. I have been trained as an interdisciplinary migration scholar with a substantive focus on the scientific study of public health, work and employment, cultural sociology, forced migration, integration and development, multilevel governance, welfare studies, different forms of inequalities and exclusion, and public opinion. The geographical scope of my academic work mostly focuses on the Global South, particularly the context of Turkey, but some of my ongoing work also looks at the context of developed countries (e.g. Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom) as well as the context of developing countries (e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Jordan).

Paddy is a Zambian national with over 16 years of professional experience as a Development Economist and Migration governance expert. Her work covers regional integration and governance. Her experience includes supporting NGOs, governments, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as well as UN agencies in programme formulation, implementation, undertaking research as well as monitoring and evaluation. She has worked with the European Commission, UN agencies (UNICEF, IOM, UNESCO), bilateral donors as well as consultancy firms as programme manager, coordinator and consultant. She holds a Master in Financial Economics from SOAS and BSC Development & Economics from LSE. She is fluent in English, French and Swahili. She has lived and worked in Zambia, Tanzania, China, Malaysia, and with missions to Ethiopia, Senegal, The Gambia, Kenya, South Africa among others. She is an advisory member of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) .

Dr Dimitris Skleparis is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Security at Newcastle University. His research is at the intersection between critical security studies and migration/refugee studies. Dimitris is interested in the ways in which migration is governed, perceived, portrayed and experienced amid increasing insecurities. He focuses particularly on the dynamics between security discourse and practice and their human impact. He approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary, and mixed methods standpoint. He also has considerable media and consultancy experience.

Dimitris received his PhD in Political Science from Queen Mary University of London (2015) with a specialisation in the securitisation of migration and the politics of migrant activism. He also holds a MSc (Distinction) in Social Science Research Methods from the University of Bristol (2009), and a BA in Communication and Media from the University of Athens (2008). He has published in a range of international peer-reviewed journals, and has contributed to a number of edited volumes, research project reports, and policy briefs.

Dimitris has previously worked as a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow, and as a Lecturer and Internship Programme Coordinator at the University of California (Edinburgh Study Centre). He has also worked as a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).