Our dedicated regional research teams conduct their work entirely on a voluntary basis. Each team is comprised of researchers and team coordinators, who commit several hours a week to their work. Our volunteers are based all around the world and collaborate remotely.
Carol Bohmer, is an Asia and America's team researcher. She is a lawyer and sociologist, a retired academic, currently a Visiting Scholar in the Government Department at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. Read more
Maria Rosaria Torrisi is an Africa team researcher. She has a background in International Crimes and Criminology. Read more
Teris Wetter is an Africa team researcher, she currently works as Program Manager for Circles of Care, reuniting high needs youth with their community. She is passionate about working towards reconciliation in Canada through harm-reduction and community care. Read more
Pauline Vidal is an Africa team researcher. She is the Research Facilitator of the Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH) in East Africa, an initiative of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. At RLRH, she provides training and mentorship to refugee researchers, and supports the implementation of a study on Refugee-Led Organisations in East Africa (RLOs). Read more
Alessandro Bartolini is an Americas and Russia/CIS researcher. Alessandro has worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross, later moving more to the political/security field as a political adviser at the Danish Embassy. Since 2015, his curiosity has shifted to the field of asylum and migration Read more
Michelle Adormaa Owusu's is an Africa team researcher, her work experience includes teaching English in Iraqi Kurdistan, Georgia and Somaliland and working in international law and Canadian immigration law. Read more
Rongpangmenla Longchar, is an Asia team researcher. She holds a master's degree in Development studies and holds interest in forced migration and advocacy for minority rights. Read more
Lara Cansizoglu is an Americas team researcher. Lara studies Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) in Italy. She has volunteered for several NGOs helping special need kids and refugees in Jordan. Read more
Kauthar Menhal is an Americas team reasercher, she currently works at the House of Commons as a Researcher, specialising in political transitions and foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa, human rights violations in South Asia, and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. Read more
Indriga Valiukaite is an Americas team researcher. She is a University College London graduate in MSc Global Migration and a research mentor at Global Research Forum for Diaspora and Transnationalism. Read more
Cristina de Nicolás Izquierdo is an Americas team researcher. She is a political scientist specialized in Conflictology, humanitarian action and forced migration, with 20 years of experience in governance and multisectoral leadership, civil society capacity development, and management of humanitarian missions, particularly in conflict and unstable post crisis. Read more