Themes
- gender, generation, youth
- displacement, refugees, return of dispalced populations
- access to rights for refugees in urban settings
- art and activism in the context of war and conflict
- participatory, arts-based research methods
- co-creation of knowledge
- feminist and decolonial methodologies
Recent Research Projects
- Creative practice and music mobilities in Laos and Sudan, ISS, the Hague (2019-2021)
- Refugee-led inclusion in Switzerland, ISS, the Hague (since 2017 ongoing)
- Early marriages in perspective: Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan (with Marina de Regt, Vrije Universitet, Amsterdam) (2018-2020)
- Adolescent Girls' Migration in the Global South, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (2014-2016)
- Changes in gender relations in war, displacement and return: Nuer South Sudanese refugees (since 2002 - longitudinal study)
Geographical Expertise
- Egypt
- Sudan
- South Sudan
- Horn of Africa: Eritre and Ethiopia
- Europe: Switzerland
