Dr Hanna A Ruszczyk
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My research explores how do we collectively create a future that supports all of us with justice and equity.
I started working as the Research and Projects Coordinator within the Institute for Economic and Social Inclusion (IESI) at the University of Sunderland in April 2026.
From November 2025 to the present time, I am also a visiting researcher at Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. While at Newcastle University, I co-produced a demand driven learning report of municipal best practices for gendered inclusive development.
From 2020 (while at Durham University), I explored humanitarianism, innovation and how 'people on the move' are governed by the digital and the financial. Please see glitchspaces.org. Since 2022, I researched the Polish response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and I continue to support Ukrainian academics to conduct their own research in a time of war. I utilize interdisciplinary and creative methods in (co)creating knowledge and am particularly keen to ensure that my (co)-produced research has relevance and traction within policy and practice. Please see www.grripp.net
My employment primarily with United Nations agencies (International Labour Organisation and United Nations Development Programme), focused on livelihoods and local economic development in several countries. There has always been a clear gendered focus within my UN work and within my academic research. Through my monitoring and evaluation consulting work, I strive to listen, learn and document the change created. My academic career has been an opportunity to engage critically with gender, risk, migration, urban resilience, grassroots initiatives, community/collective as well as natural hazards.
I started working as the Research and Projects Coordinator within the Institute for Economic and Social Inclusion (IESI) at the University of Sunderland in April 2026.
From November 2025 to the present time, I am also a visiting researcher at Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. While at Newcastle University, I co-produced a demand driven learning report of municipal best practices for gendered inclusive development.
From 2020 (while at Durham University), I explored humanitarianism, innovation and how 'people on the move' are governed by the digital and the financial. Please see glitchspaces.org. Since 2022, I researched the Polish response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and I continue to support Ukrainian academics to conduct their own research in a time of war. I utilize interdisciplinary and creative methods in (co)creating knowledge and am particularly keen to ensure that my (co)-produced research has relevance and traction within policy and practice. Please see www.grripp.net
My employment primarily with United Nations agencies (International Labour Organisation and United Nations Development Programme), focused on livelihoods and local economic development in several countries. There has always been a clear gendered focus within my UN work and within my academic research. Through my monitoring and evaluation consulting work, I strive to listen, learn and document the change created. My academic career has been an opportunity to engage critically with gender, risk, migration, urban resilience, grassroots initiatives, community/collective as well as natural hazards.
