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Tuba Bircan completed her PhD in social and political sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven. Her major research interests are migration, diversity, inequalities, equal opportunities, social policy, evidence-based policymaking, inclusive education, mixed methods, Big Data and AI applications for migration research. She is currently the scientific coordinator of the Enhanced Migration Measures from a Multidimensional Perspective (HumMingBird), a research programme funded by European Commission Horizon 2020. She has served as an external expert and reviewer for several European funding institutes and as a reviewer for many international journals including International Migration, Habitat, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Sage Open, Equality, diversity and inclusion, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies.

I am a social worker, a teaching fellow and a postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University. I am involved in social work practice and research surrounding forced migration, cross-cultural practice and international social work.

Alex Bish is an independent researcher specialising on migration, conflict, and crime dynamics in West and North Africa. Over the past seven years, Alex has conducted in-depth fieldwork across West Africa and supervised field networks of key informants in both government and hard-to-reach groups, including rebels, militants, and smugglers. Alex is also an EPSRC PhD researcher in Security and Crime Science at UCL and a Visiting Scholar at Yale University. In addition to qualitative research, he is also trained in quantitative and complex systems research methods.

Dr. Urmi Nanda Biswas is working as a Professor, in the Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Gujarat. India. Her broad research interest includes applied social psychology and social issues with a focus on gender , health, and migrant vulnerabilities. She has worked on Tibetaan school children in exile in India and assessed the impact of life skill training on their adjustment and performance. Her current research exploresUnderstanding the vulnerabilities of Indian female migrants during COVID 19 pandemic: Rethinking policies for better integration of immigrant women’s work lives. She has over 25 years of teaching and research experience , has guided 15 Ph.D.s and has widely published in national and international journals.

Research Professor, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, and Professor of Sociology, University of Bergen

Dr. Jelisaveta Blagojević Miljanić serves as the head of the Library and Documentation Center and Archives of the Parliament of Montenegro, and as the Convener, she leads the Special Interest Group for Women, Information, and Libraries within the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). During her doctoral studies, she received several scholarships that enabled research at La Sapienza University in Rome, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis University. She has published over 30 scientific papers, three of which appeared in journals indexed in the Social Science Citation Index list. She has participated in numerous conferences both domestically and internationally, is fluent in English, and proficient in French.

PhD candidate at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.

Research interests:
-international migrations
-CEE labour markets
-racialisation and whiteness in the Eastern European context
-centre-periphery relations