Synne L Dyvik
BA, MSc, PhD
Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Dyvik is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Sussex interested in the gendered and racialised embodiment of international relations, development, war, refugee governance and humanitarianism. She is currently working on a co-authored monograph (with Dr Gabrielle Daoust at UNBC, Canada) entitled Humanitarianism in the Home: Private Refugee Hosting and the Politics of Hospitality (Forthcoming Routledge). Her most recent article is entitled ‘Homes For Ukraine’ and the politics of private humanitarian hospitality (Forthcoming Review of International Studies).
Her work has been published in Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, Critical Military Studies, Geoforum, Social Policy, and International Feminist Journal of Politics. She has co-edited two books, Embodying Militarism: Exploring the Spaces and Bodies In-Between (Routledge 2018) and What's the Point of International Relations? (Routledge 2017). She is a co-editor of the Bristol University Press series Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics.
Synne has experience of working with NGOs and policy makers on a number of issue areas including safeguarding (with Save the Children), gender mainstreaming (with Saferworld)and addressing the rise in global hatred on the basis of religion or belief (with Wilton Park). She contributed to the ICAI report on The UKs Approach to Safeguarding in the Humanitarian Sector.