Hannah Grondelaers

Phd researcher

Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Hannah Grondelaers is an FWO PhD Fellow at Ghent University's Social Work and Social Pedagogy Department and is affiliated to the UNU-CRIS Migration and Social Policy cluster in Bruges. She conducts research on Ukrainian women's return trajectories between Belgium and Ukraine, using multi-scalar ethnography to study how gendered and geopolitical imaginaries on different scales (EU, Belgian/Ukrainian, social work and personal scale) shape the women's trajectories. Hannah holds a Bachelor and Master in History from KU Leuven. She graduated from her second Master in Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University. For her master's thesis, Hannah studied the context-specific solidarity and support practices emerging between Ukrainian mothers living at an emergency reception centre.

Email: hannah.grondelaers@ugent.be

Research themes:

Borders, migration governance and people on the move || Participation, integration and transnational relations