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Tiina Seppälä holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Lapland. Her PhD thesis (2010) dealt with the anti-war movement and theories of global resistance. She is interested in activism, social movements, development, forced migration, displacement, postcolonial and feminist theory, ethnography and engaged scholarship. Recently, she has focused on feminization of resistance, decolonial feminist solidarity, and arts-based research methods.

She has engaged with slum activists and women’s rights movements in Nepal and Bangladesh, anti-eviction movements in India, asylum seekers in Finland, and anti-war activists in the UK. She has been a visiting scholar in India (Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2011–12), Nepal (Nepal Institute of Peace, 2012, 2014, 2020), Bangladesh (Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit based at the University of Dhaka, 2015), and Australia (University of Newcastle, 2019). Her research project Governance, Resistance and Neoliberal Development: Struggles against Development-Induced Displacement and Forced Evictions in South Asia was funded by the Academy of Finland (2013–16).

Currently, she works as a university lecturer in Political Science (temporary position) and a as researcher in Rethinking Nordic Democracy: Civil Disobedience in Exceptional Times research project, funded by the Academy of Finland. She is a member of the Service Design Research Group CO-STARS at the Faculty of Art and Design. She has the title of an adjunct professor (docent) of International Development Studies at the University of Jyväskylä.

Is currently a Senior Fellow and Director of the research group PRISMA UKRAÏNA: War, Migration and Memory at the Forum Transregionale Studien. Prior to this, she was a fellow at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg, University of Jena. She is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 2020 and a professor of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2021 a visiting lecturer at the University of Basel. In 2016–2020 Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, where she developed a digital atlas of social changes in Ukraine after Euromaidan.

Ms. Wegahtabrhan Sereke is a PhD assistant candidate at the institute for Public Communication in
Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano. She is working on a research project titled “Migrant belonging: discourse, affect and capital” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jolanta Drzewiecka. Before that she worked as a home-based consultant for the Belgian think-tank Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA), a centre of expertise on EU’s foreign policy towards Africa. Formerly, she was a Staff Attorney at the Legal Advisor’s Office to the Eritrean State President. Prior to this, she served as an elementary school teacher in rural Eritrea. She obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Asmara in 2007, a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva in 2013, and another LLM in International Dispute Settlement in 2011 from the University of Geneva (MIDS). After completion of her graduate studies in Geneva, Sereke has interned with three Untied Nations agencies in Geneva.

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Thea is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in sociology and psychology and whose work covers the intersections of development, migration and youth studies. In 2020 Thea Shahrokh joined the Department of Sociolofical Studies at the University of Sheffield as a Research Associate on the EU project MIMY: EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions. Prior to joining Sheffield she undertook her PhD research ‘Young people with migration-related life experiences: navigating identities and belonging in South Africa’ with the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University, using participatory arts and story-based research methods.