Experts Database

Eloise Thompson is a doctoral fellow with the nccr - on the move (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) and associated with the Institute for Geography, University of Neuchâtel.

Malin Thor Tureby gained her PhD at Linnaeus University in 2005 (History). During the years 2005-2014 she worked as a senior lecture in history and oral history at Malmo university, where she became Docent in 2013 (History) and was promoted Associated Professor (History/Oral History) the same year. Since 2014 Thor Tureby works at Linköping university where she was appointed as Associated Professor (History) in 2015. She is one of the co-founders of Oral History in Sweden (OHIS) and co-chair of the European Social Science Conference (ESSHC) Oral history and life stories network.
Thor Tureby is currently the PI and PL of the research projects Narratives as cultural heritage. Power and resistance in collections of narratives from and about immigrants at the archive of Nordic Museum 1970–2015 and Jewish and Woman. Historical and Intersectional perspectives on Jewish Women’s lives in Sweden during the twentieth and twenty-first century. Both projects are funded by the Swedish Research Council.
She is also the PI and the PL for the research project Oral history as digital heritage in the age of migration. A project that is part the international research consortium and research project DigiCONFLICT, funded by JPICH. The Swedish research team is researching the involvement of cultural heritage institutions and other actors, while collecting, curating and using oral histories during and about the refugee reception of 2015. The Swedish study is funded by The Swedish National Heritage Board.

Ramesh Timsina, an M. A. in English Literature from Tribhuvan University, has been pursuing other Master’s in Human Rights and Multiculturalism at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He completed his first Master’s in English in 2015 and his Bachelor’s in Religion and Society from MF Scientific College, Norway, in 2022. He has worked as an English teacher for seven years, including two years of experience as a high school teacher in a public school in Nepal. He is keenly interested in literature, literary theories, cultural studies, human rights issues, migration, and sociology. He has contributed to both creative and critical writing in newspapers and journals. He has some poems, opinion articles, and journal articles published to his credit.

Dr. Fanny Tittel-Mosser is currently Knowledge Management and Research Officer at the International Center for Migration Policy Development in Brussels. She conducts research on issues related to diaspora engagement globally. In 2018 she completed a Marie Curie PhD in law at the University of Minho, Portugal. Fanny has experience in research, comparative studies, monitoring and evaluation as well as a deep knowledge of migration issues in the MENA Region and West Africa. Dr. Tittel-Mosser previously worked on various migration-related issues with IOM, the UN Alliance of Civilizations, and NGOs. Her research interests include migration governance, EU External Action, EU-Africa relations, EU-UN relations, diaspora engagement policy, labor migration, migrants human capital and skills and entrepreneurship.

Chhavi is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in WORKLIFE project at Institut national d’études démographiques (INED), Paris. The aim of the project which is to study (1) the impact of non-standard working hours on fertility, conjugality and gender inequalities, (2) and the role of employers in the choices made by employees (postponing births, going part-time, etc.). The WORKLIFE project mobilises three complementary sources of data: French and European panel data (Gender and Generation Survey; Working Conditions Survey-RPS) and 4 case studies (company HR files; employee interviews) in different sectors of activity. Under the supervision of Anne Lambert, principal investigator of the project, I am specifically looking at the impact of working hours on the family and professional careers of employees of different grades and levels of qualification.

Prior to joining INED, I have worked as an Assistant Professor at T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) for 1.5 years. My research interest is primarily in inequalities and labour migration specially in women.

Jasper Tjaden is Professor for Applied Social Research & Public Policy at the University of Potsdam.

Jasper Dag Tjaden holds a PhD in Quantitative Social Sciences from the University of Bamberg, Germany and a MA from the London School of Economics and Political Science. During his doctoral studies, he spent one year as a Fulbright scholar at the City University of New York, US, and the Minnesota Population Centre, US.

Jasper has been working in the field of migration over the last 10 years including at the International Organization for Migration, UK Home Office in London, the Migration Policy Group in Brussels, the Spanish Refugee Support Commission (CEAR) in Seville, and the Worldbank in Washington, D.C.

Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn holds an MPhil in Modern International and Transnational History from the University in Oslo (2019) and is now a PhD Fellow affiliated with the NORMS-project at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway. He has previously worked as a research assistant at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and is interested in migrant return policies, migration, colonial history and European contemporary history.

Adjunct Professor Olga Tkach is a senior researcher at the Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR), St. Petersburg, Russia. She defended her PhD in Sociology in 2008, and in 2018, she was awarded the title of docent by the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Finland, with a specialization in migration and welfare research. Olga studies and publishes on migration and mobility, au pair placement, home, domestic and care work, housing and neighbouring relations, and various aspects of the everyday. As the main grantee, she has been currently involved in two international Kone Foundation funded projects on neighbourness “The Big Layered Cake: towards the conceptualization of neighborness” (2019-2022) and On the Road with the Big Layered Cake: A Thoughtful Journey Through the Russian-Finnish Neighborhood (2019-2020). She also currently studies the issues of property relations and intra-city mobility within the project “Urban Margins, Global Transitions: Everyday Security and Mobility in Four Russian Cities” funded by the Research Council of Norway, NORRUSS programme, project No.287967 (2019-2022).