Oksana Mikheieva Author

Irina Kuznetsova is Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. She has extensively researched the social impacts of displacement from Ukraine’s war-affected regions and led the AHRC-funded Ukraine’s Hidden Tragedy project. With over 25 years’ experience in migration, immobility, and social exclusion across countries, she brings a cross-disciplinary, impact-driven approach to collaborative research, particularly in understanding both internal and international dimensions of war and conflict- related displacement.

Oksana Mikheieva is Professor of Sociology at the Kyiv School of Economics. During her work at various academic institutions, including Donetsk State University of Management, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), and European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), as well as during research fellowships at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (HURI), Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and ZOiS/the Centre for East European and international Studies, she researched various aspects of migration processes related to war and forced displacement. She also focuses her research on aspects of paramilitary motivations, everyday life under conditions of war and occupation.