Bio

Gaëlle Le Pavic is an associate postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Ghent University and a fellow at the United Nations University – CRIS. Previously, she worked for several years in project management and international cooperation, and she also contributed as a researcher to various projects addressing the social dimensions of migration and the consequences of COVID-19 for migrants. Her current postdoctoral work focuses on migration in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with a particular emphasis on social support across different settings. She was awarded two post-doctoral fellowships at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany, the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and the KIU Viadrina University in Frankfurt Oder.

Research Interests
  • migration
  • feminist approaches to geopolitics
  • the analysis of knowledge production

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