Sevinj Samadzade
Sevinj Samadzade is a PhD Fellow at Ghent University, affiliated with both the Department of Political Science and the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy. She also holds a fellowship at the United Nations University-CRIS, where she is part of the Migration and Social Policy Cluster. Her PhD research explores the ways social work practices can reproduce geopolitical dynamics, aiming to deepen the understanding of the interaction between global and local scales in social welfare provisions.
Sevinj earned her master’s degree in Middle East, Caucasus, and Central Asian Security Studies from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Her work has primarily focused on the gender, peace, and security nexus in the South Caucasus region. With over a decade of experience working with various civil society groups in Azerbaijan and Georgia, she has been involved in processes related to dealing with the past, researching alternative histories, and the daily politics of armed conflicts. Additionally, she has implemented gender and peace education throughout the wider region.
Research interests
- Gender, Peace, and Security
- Post-Soviet geopolitics
- Social work and movements in the South Caucasus
- Feminist International Relations
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