Professor Vicki Squire

is Principal Investigator on the Data and Displacement project. She is Professor of International Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK, and Convenor of Warwick’s Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration (BREM) network. Professor Squire’s research explores the politics of migration, displacement, asylum and humanitarianism across various contexts, and has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Council (UK), British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the Leverhulme Trust. She is author of several books, including The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum (2009, Palgrave Macmillan), The Contested Politics of Mobility (Routledge, 2011), Post/Humanitarian Border Politics Between Mexico and the US (2015, Palgrave Macmillan), Europe’s Migration Crisis (2020, Cambridge University Press) and Reclaiming Migration (with Nina Perkowski, Dallal Stevens, and Nick Vaughan-Williams 2021, Manchester University Press).

Dr Olufunke Fayehun is Co-Investigator on the Data and Displacement project. She is a Senior Lecturer and incoming Head of Department at the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Dr Fayehun obtained a B.Sc degree in Statistics, M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Sociology (Demography Option) at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a demographer with particular interest in the vulnerable groups in the society: children, women and the elderly, and has an edge in mixed method research. She is currently collaborating on a number of multi-country and multi-disciplinary studies relating to urban slum health access and utilization, including the NIHR Global Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums in Africa and Asia. Dr Fayehun is the outgoing Chair of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) Board of Management.

Dr Briony Jones

is Co-Investigator on the Data and Displacement project. She is Reader of International Development, in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK, and Director of the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development. Dr Jones is an Associated Senior Researcher at swisspeace, a founding member of Oxford Transitional Justice Research, a Co-Chair of the Human Rights and Transitional Justice Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research, and a member of the Working Group on SDG16 and Transitional Justice. Her research takes place at the intersection between International Development, Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding. In particular, her work focuses on reconciliation, citizenship, political agency, and the politics of intervention. She also has a strong research interest in the politics of knowledge production on and in countries dealing with a past of large-scale violations of human rights.

Dr Leben Moro is Co-Investigator on the Data and Displacement project. He is the Director of Planning, Innovation and Quality Assurance at the University of Juba, South Sudan. Professor Moro formerly served as Director of the Institute of Peace, Development and Security Studies at the same university. He holds a doctorate in development studies from the University of Oxford, and teaches graduate courses mainly at the Institute of Peace, Development and Security Studies. He primarily conducts research on conflict, displacement and resettlement, focusing on forced migration in the Eastern Africa region. He has published on these themes.  

Professor João Porto de Albuquerque is Co-Investigator on the Data and Displacement project. He is Professor in Urban Analytics at Urban Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow and the Deputy Director of the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC). Professor Porto de Albuquerque is a geographer and computer scientist who works in the fields of digital geography, geographic Information science and global sustainable development. He is currently leading a research programme centred around the empowerment of vulnerable and deprived communities in the global South with citizen-generated data to improve resilience to health and environmental risks, in collaboration with academic and non-academic partners in several countries, including Australia, Brazil, Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United States.

Professor Dallal StevensLink opens in a new window

is Co-Investigator on the Data and Displacement project. She is a Professor of Refugee Law, School of Law, University of Warwick, UK. Professor Stevens’ research focuses on refugee and asylum law and policy in the Middle East, UK, and EU and she has published widely. Monographs include: Reclaiming migration - Voices from Europe's 'migrant crisis (with Nina Perkowski, Vicki Squire, and Nick Vaughan-Williams, Manchester University Press 2021); States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection: Fortresses and Fairness (ed, with Maria O’Sullivan, Hart 2017), Refugee Protection and the Role of Law: Conflicting Identities (ed, with Susan Kneebone and Loretta Baldassar, Routledge, 2014,) and UK Asylum Law and Policy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Sweet and Maxwell, 2004). Her work has been supported by external grants from Norway Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and the ESRC. She is Book Review Editor with the International Journal of Refugee Law and Associate Editor of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law.

Rob Trigwell is Co-Investigator on the Data and Displacement project. He is the Unit Lead for DTM Global Support Analytics, Knowledge and Output (AKO). Rob Trigwell has a humanitarian relief background, having worked with NGOs and the UN across the Middle East, East Africa and Asia. He currently works within the Global Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) team, where he co-coordinates the Analytical, Knowledge and Output (AKO) quality Unit, a recently established research unit part of the Global DTM team based in London. He co-chairs the Humanitarian Data Science and Ethics Group (DSEG), an interagency network of experts to understand how data science methods can support humanitarian outcomes.

Dr Ọláyínká Àkànle (University of Ibadan Nigeria) is a Researcher on the Data and Displacement project. a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is also a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a Research Collaborator on the Data and Displacement Project. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) in Social Policy, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa. He has won scholarly awards including the World Social Science Fellowship (WSSF) by the International Social Science Council (ISSC), Paris, France, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal laureateship and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria Postgraduate School Prize for scholarly publication. He is a recipient of Folke Bernadotte Academy, Swedish Agency for Peace, Security and Development, Sweden’s Certificate of Achievement. He is an analytically ingenious development sociologist with intersectional research interests covering clusters of: international migration and diaspora; gender, family and sexuality; child and youth; governance and environment; epistemology and knowledge production; conflict, crime and security; health and medicine. He has published widely with more than 150 publications and attended many local and international scholarly conferences. He has authored, edited and co-edited many books including; The Development of Africa: Issues, Diagnosis and Prognosis (Springer Publishing, Germany, 2018), Youth Exclusion and Empowerment in the Contemporary Global Order: Contexts of Economy, Education and Governance (Emerald, UK, 2022) and Youth Exclusion and Empowerment in the Contemporary Global Order: Existentialities in Migrations, Identity and the Digital Space (Emerald, UK, 2022).

Dr Modesta Alozie was the Lead Research Fellow on the Data & Displacement project. She has eight years' experience in International Development Planning, both as a scholar and policy advisor. Her research focuses on developing an intersectional perspective to confront digitally induced inequalities and resource exploitation. She has consulted for international organisations and government institutions, including the UK Parliament, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Cities and Local GovernmentLink opens in a new window. She also taught the 'Politics of Globalisation' Module at the University of Warwick. In 2020 she completed a PhD in International Development Planning at the Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London (UCL).

Dr Kuyang Harriet Logo is a Researcher on the Data and Displacement project. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Peace, Development and Security Studies, University of Juba, South Sudan in December 2020. Her PhD interrogated knowledge production in a non-transition context and the ensuing challenges of pursuing justice after war in South Sudan. She teaches International Law and International Human Rights Law at the post graduate level at the Institute. She also teaches at the College of Law of the same university. Dr Logo is also an independent consultant, working on democratic governance, access to justice and the rule of law with the United Nations and international organisations, as well as academic institutions. Prior to becoming an academic and consultant, she served with the United Nations Development Programme in the capacities of Rule of Law Analyst, Programme Analyst for the Rule of Law Cluster, and Access to Justice Specialist in the Sudan, South Sudan and Timor Leste. Dr Logo qualified as a lawyer from the Faculty of Law of Makerere University in Uganda where she graduated with an honours degree in law and proceeded to advance her studies at Ohio Northern University in the USA where she obtained a Master of Laws Degree in Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law with distinction. She has published on international humanitarian law, legal reforms, transitional justice, gender, and customary justice.

Dr Prithvi Hirani is a Researcher on the Data and Displacement project. She is a DTM Programme Officer for the Displacement Tracking Matrix Global Operations, Coordination and Support Unit. Dr Hirani works on the Solutions and Mobility Index and is part of the Data Science and Ethics team. Prior to joining IOM, she completed a PhD titled “The Border, City and Diaspora: The Physical and Imagined Borders of South Asia”, in International Politics from Aberystwyth University, UK in 2018. She has previously worked in urban public policy as a Research Fellow in Mumbai.

Grant TregonningLink opens in a new window is a Researcher on the Data and Displacement project. He completed his PhD at Newcastle University in 2021, where he also worked as a teaching assistant and co-manager of the GIS-Helpdesk. He has a BSc in Environmental Science and an MSc in Integrated Management of Freshwater Environments both from Queen Mary University of London. He is a geospatial scientist who is interested in climate change, sustainability, inequalities and citizen science. He mainly uses geospatial analytical methods to understand issues associated with urban sustainability and liveability. His NERC funded PhD research project adopted multi-objective optimisation techniques to determine the next set of spatially optimised sustainable housing development plans for major cities within the UK. At Warwick, Grant Tregonning continues to develop his research on urban liveability and sustainability and is currently working on a number of projects situated in the Global North and Global South including the Data and Displacement, Creating Interfaces and Slum Mapping initiatives.

Stephanie Whitehead is the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator on the Data and Displacement project. She is a Programme and Evaluation Manager at the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick, UK. Stephanie Whitehead provides senior practitioner support to Warwick’s research community on global sustainable development. Leading on a university-wide programme that brings together transdisciplinary research groups and external stakeholders to create new research collaborations and subsequent research proposals is a key part of her role. She supports the provision of guidance around the UN Sustainable Development Goals with regards to how groups across the University may collaborate with external stakeholders in equitable partnerships to generate excellent research and guidance to colleagues on the planning, monitoring and evaluation of projects to deliver impact towards the UN SDGs, for example using methods such as theory of change.

Dr Silvia De Michelis is a Research Assistant on the Data and Displacement project (Year 2). She obtained a PhD from the Department of Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford, UK. Her doctoral research is titled From Cultural Imperialism to Cultural Peacebuilding. The Role of Media Within the Framework of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine: The Case of Libya 2011. She also holds a Master in Forensics Criminology and a Law Degree with a focus on International Criminal Law from LIUC University (Varese, Italy) and the University of Turin (Italy), respectively. She is co-author of a book on peace journalism published in Italian titled Giornalismo di Pace (Ega, 2016) and has worked as a researcher for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, California.

Ewajesu Opeyemi Okewumiworked on the Data and Displacement project in the first year as a research assistant. She holds a Masters degree in Sociology, with specialisation in Development Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She has expertise in qualitative research, data analysis and report writing. She has served on the organizing committee of Modern Youths International Model United Nations as an Academic and Research team member. She is a fellow of the Lagos Studies Association

Mauricio Palma-Gutiérrez is a Research Assistant on the Data and Displacement project (Year 2). He is a PhD Student at the Department of Politics and International Studies of the University of Warwick (UK) working on Venezuelan cross-border mobility along the South American Andes. He is also a lecturer in International Migration at the Del Rosario University (Colombia). He has worked as a public policy adviser and researcher on security, human mobility, and global institutions for over ten years, mostly in Colombia. He previously completed an MSc in Global History at the London School of Economics (UK), an MA in Global Studies at the University of Leipzig (Germany), and a BA in International Relations at the Del Rosario University

Funke Caroline Williams is a Research Assistant on the Data and Displacement project (Year 1). She possesses a B.Sc. Food Science and Technology from the University of Maiduguri and an M.Sc. Public Health (Biotechnology) degree from the University of Ibadan. Her 5 years of humanitarian experience with an NGO includes facilitating the distribution of relief materials to victims of human and natural disasters and participating in several community development projects across Yobe, Plateau and Oyo States. She is also multilingual and works in Data and Displacement projects as a Research Assistant.

Oluwafunto Abimbola worked on the Data and Displacement project in the first year as an intern. She is a graduate of History and International Studies at Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Nigeria. She has written a research paper titled "Terrorism and its effects on socio economic development in North-East Nigeria, Borno as a case study". She is a fellow of the African Presidential Leadership Program, Cairo under the auspices of Egypt president, His Excellency Abdel Fattah El-sis.