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DrSynne Dyvik

(she/her)

Associate Professor In International Relations (International Relations)

School of Global Studies

BIO

My research interest lie in the gendered and racialised embodiment of international relations, development, war, refugee governance and humanitarianism, with a focus on how people engage with, practice and experience global politics. I'm currently working on people hosting refugees in homes and communities and how 'ordinary people' are responding to humanitarian emergencies and needs. I'm curious about this practice as a form of 'everyday humanitarianism', what it means within the context of wider refugee regimes, as well as what it says about the role of Home as a political space within global politics. 

 

 

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Co-Director of Sussex Centre for Global Insecurities
    University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom2 Aug 2025
  • Visiting Fellow
    Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, Department of Development, Oxford, United Kingdom7 Oct 2024 - 6 Dec 2024
  • Director of Sussex Centre for Global Insecurities Research
    University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom1 Sep 2023 - 1 Aug 2024
  • Director of Student Experience (Global Studies)
    University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom1 Aug 2018 - 1 May 2022
  • MA Course Convenor (Conflict, Security and Development and Geopolitics and International Affairs)
    University of Sussex, International Relations, Brighton, United Kingdom1 Aug 2025

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Trustee
    Network of International Women for Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom1 Jun 2023

DEGREES

  • PhD International Relations
    University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
  • MSc European Studies
    London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
  • BA Comparative Politics
    University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

CERTIFICATIONS

  • PGCert
    University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • Norwegian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Danish
    Can read, understand and peer review
  • Swedish
    Can read and understand

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • 5 Gender Equality

FIELDS OF RESEARCH