Experts Database

Annalisa Busetta is Associate Professor in Demography at the University of Palermo. She has published in the areas of marginality
and integration of refugees and mmigrants, measures of chronic poverty, and multidimensional vulnerability. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the
Interdepartmental Research Center on Migrations of the University of Palermo (CIR Migrare).

Sema Buz is a professor at Hacettepe University Department of Social Work. She is also director of Hacettepe University Migration and Politics Research Center (HUGO). She completed her MA and PhD thesis about asylum seekers in Turkey. She have publications related women an migration, integration of refugees, social cohesion, Afghan refugees, climate refugees, internal and international migration.

Research focus: Langauge discordant public service provision, relations between the state and linguistic minorities. Linguistic oppression, linguicism and the intersection of this and other forms of discrimination.

Yuliya Byelikova is a Research Fellow at the The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity . She is an activist, expert on media and gender issues, trainer in Internews, USAID, GIZ and U-LEAD projects on anti-discrimination, media literacy and inclusion. Yuliya holds a PhD in social sciences, in 2007-2023 years worked as the associate professor of Social Communications Department at Kharkiv National University of Economics, alumna of the Open World Leadership Center program, member of the Sociological Association of Ukraine, and the Independent Media Union of Ukraine and the Committee Against Misogynist Industrial Advertising. She is the author of more than 80 scientific and educational publications in the field of gender theory, advertising, media communication, emotional leadership and methodology of opinion research. Currently located in Dresden.

Dr. Sadhbh Byrne is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the REFUGE-ED project, based at Trinity Centre for Global Health. REFUGE-ED is funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, and seeks to identify, implement, and evaluate existing evidence-based practices that promote the inclusion, mental health, sense of belonging, and academic achievement of children and young people who are refugees, asylum seekers, or separated minors. Specifically, the project is interested in practices that can be implemented in (formal, non-formal and informal) educational settings. The project will involve co-design with children, families, teachers, practitioners, policymakers and other relevant stakeholders.

Sadhbh received a BA (Hons) in Psychology and a Postgraduate Certificate in Statistics from TCD. Prior to her current position, she worked with Associate Prof. Jo Robinson on the youth suicide prevention research team at Orygen/the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia. At Orygen, Sadhbh primarily worked on the Multimodal Approach to Preventing Suicide in Schools (MAPSS) study. This large-scale project is ongoing, and involves educating approximately 4,000 students in secondary schools across north and west Melbourne about how to identify suicide risk in themselves and their friends, screening students to identify suicide risk, and delivering treatment to those young people identified as being at risk.

Sadhbh completed her PhD at TCD under the supervision of Assistant Prof. Lorraine Swords and Associate Prof. Elizabeth Nixon, supported by a competitive scholarship from the Irish Research Council. Her PhD research explored the role that parents and peers play in identifying early signs and symptoms of adolescent depression, and supporting young people in distress.

Her research interests centre on youth mental health. She has a keen interest in participatory and co-design approaches to research, and the importance of engaging a young person's family and friends in supporting their mental health (the 'social scaffold').

I am a professor at the Saint Louis University (SLU) School of Advanced Studies (SAS). I am involved in the clinical and research supervision for Masters and PhD Psychology candidates. My research interests are child abuse, depression and anxiety, trauma and resilience, parenting and parental wellbeing, and stigma particularly among IP populations.

Phd Candidate in International Relations and Master in Geography at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Defense Analyst and Internationalist from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Research assistant for a project on the far-right and multilateralism in Latin America (MUDRAL).

Research interests: Climate migration; forced migration by narcoviolence; border control; migratory flows from Central America to United States.

Meriç Çağlar is a researcher specializing in forced migration and gender studies. She completed her doctoral studies in Gender Studies at CEU ( Austria). She has worked as a gender and forced migration researcher in various European institutions such as the IDS (Sussex) and IHEID (Geneva) and held fellowship positions in reputable academic institutions such as Bielefeld University (DAAD scholar), IWM (Vienna), and MiReKoc (Istanbul).
Her research interests lie in the areas of gender and asylum, intersectionality in migration studies, refugee protection and integration in Turkey, and migrant deservingness.