Coordinating Team

Dr. Karine Duplan is a feminist cultural geographer. Her research focuses on cultural and material transformations in globalised urban centres. Drawing on an intersectional perspective, it aims to address the power relations at play and the changing forms of inequalities, and privileges from which they arise, with a particular focus on power relations of gender and sexuality. Karine brings together critical and feminist approaches to space to grasp the complexity of current issues of inclusion and diversity. In doing so, her research aims to better understand the processes of boundary-making in everyday politics, from an embodied perspective, as well as the role of public policy in the search for greater spatial justice.

Dr. Devran Koray Öcal (he/him), a scholar in political geography, has a broad interest in the geographies of states and geopolitics, approached from a feminist theoretical and methodological perspective. Since February 2022, he has been serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the Social and Cultural Geography Unit at Bern University. 

Christiane Meyer-Habighorst (she/her) has been working on her PhD at the University of Zürich since October 2022 in Labour Geography at the Department of Geography. In her research, Christiane looks at the socio-spatial implications of digitally mediated domestic care work for children and elderly in the context of Zürich, Switzerland. She is particularly interest in the interconnections between urban space and the everyday lives of the care workers. 

Rosa Philipp (she/ her) is doing her PhD at the University of Bern in the Department of Social and Cultural Geography. She became part of the group in autumn 2023. Rosa's research focuses on socio-territorial conflicts in southern Mexico, resistance movements and the relationship between body and territory. She's interested in exploring audio-visual research and engaging in participatory research methods. 

Morgane Rudaz is a Swiss geographer interested in feminist and queer approaches in geography. She is a PhD student and a teaching assistant at the University of Geneva, affiliated with both the Institute of Gender Studies and the Institute of Environmental Governance and Territorial Development. She focuses on feminist activism in her thesis, and specifically engages with collectives related to the movement of Les Collages Féminicides in Geneva and Paris. She would describe herself as a cycling and photography enthusiast, interests which she tries to incorporate into her academic work to enrich its depth and perspective.

Micaela Lois (she/her) is doing her PhD at the University of Bern in the Economic Geography Unit. In her research, she uses an intersectional perspective to analyse entrepreneurial ecosystems. She focuses on the spaces and experiences of inclusion and exclusion of migrant women entrepreneurs in Zurich.