Research assistants (AR) | (Im)mobility, gender, human geography
Short bio
脕gnes Er艖ss is a research assistant, an MSCA Seal of Excellence holder at the unibz. Her project, called FemMinImm, explores the intersection of gender and ethnicity in the context of (im)mobility and and the ongoing war in Ukraine. She received her PhD in Human Geography at the E枚tv枚s Lor谩nd University, Budapest. She was an International Visegrad Fund post-doctoral visiting scholar at the Centre for Migration Research, University of Warsaw and an NCN post-doctoral researcher at the University of Opole. She was a research fellow at the Geographical Institute of the Hungarian Research Network Research, Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences.
脕gnes Er艖ss' PhD investigated the spatial representation of memory and commemoration, particularly the politics of heritage in the ethnically and culturally diverse Central and Eastern Europe.
Her post-doctoral research explores the family and individual livelihood strategies in the context of transnational migration and kin-state politics in Central and Eastern Europe. She is particularly interested in understanding the gender aspect of (im)mobility in peripheral communities in Transcarpathia, Western Ukraine.
She has experience in qualitative research, including documentary filmmaking.