Olha Lushankina
Research Fellow of the Research Group
Olha Lushankina is a doctoral researcher in the Health and Social Inequality research group. She earned her B.A. degree from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and her M.A. degree from Freie Universität Berlin in sociology. For several years she worked on behalf of the Berlin Senate Department for Labour, Social Affairs, Gender Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination, and recently at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM). Her research interests include bordering practices, gender, and social transformations in Eastern Europe. In her doctoral project, she examines the effects of divorces on mental health among Ukrainian refugee women.