Collaborators
Collaborators
Rishana Wijethunge
Rishana Wijethunge has an educational background in Sinhala, Political Science, and Buddhist Studies, obtaining her A-levels and Daham Pasal certification in 2015. She currently leads research projects and focus groups in Sinhala, handling transcriptions and translations into English, thus contributing to studies on development, labour relations and migration. Rishana migrated to Romania in 2021 and works in both English and Romanian. She is a community organizer and activist who engages in academic and artistic initiatives. In her free time, she enjoys practicing yoga and photo modeling.
Tibor Toró
Tibor Toró is Associate Professor at the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania. He obtained an MA in Nationalism studies at the Central European University (CEU), in Budapest, Hungary, and a PhD in Philosophy at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His main research interests are language policy, ethnopolitics, and minority rights. His academic papers have been published in journals such as Nationalities Papers, Language Policy, and the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Dayana R.C.
I hate bios written in third person. So, here’s a bit about me, I was born in Jojutla, Mexico, but moved to Queretaro to get my degree in International Relations (2015-2019). Upon graduation I received a scholarship to study Mandarin in Taiwan for a year and a half (2020-2021), after Taiwan I came back to Mexico for a year where I worked with Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation. In 2022, I embarked on my journey to get my Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree master’s degree in Gender Studies by the University of Łódź, Poland and the University of Granada, Spain (2022-2025). My Master’s thesis was “Understanding the processes of migration and integration of non-European female healthcare workers in long-term care homes in Austria”. From all the research and knowledge gathered, I would change many things from my thesis today, including the title and the focus of the research, but it is precisely this evolution that makes me passionate about research and knowledge, that things are constantly evolving and that knowledge as humans is almost never completely static. Through these academic and life journeys, I experienced loss, grief, friendship, and love, but that’s a story to have over coffee or whatever drink is agreed upon. Currently living in Austria, solo researching and trying to start a PhD with focus on Migration, Transnational Care-Chains, Gender.
Alondra Oviedo
Alondra Oviedo is pursuing a doctorate at Pablo de Olavide University, in Sevilla, Spain. She holds an MA in Sociology from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and a BA in Sociology from the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM), Lima, Peru. She currently works as a university lecturer and researcher at the Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University of Amazonas (UNTRM), in Chachapoyas, Peru, where she has also coordinated the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Culture and Society (CEIIN-CS). Her research focuses on gender studies, structural inequalities, and the politics around the indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. Alondra has published in high-impact academic journals and in 2019 she received a research award from the UNMSM.
Ármin Lambing
Ármin Lambing is a political economist specializing in international political economy, with a particular focus on the political economy of dependency and the dynamics of economic development in Central and Eastern Europe. He is a member of Corvinus University of Budapest’s College for Advanced Studies in Social Theory (TEK), in Budapest, Hungary. At TEK, Ármin engages in theoretical discussions on the intersections of politics and economics. He is interested in how global and regional power relations shape patterns of economic development, state capacity, and institutional change.
Sámuel Kiss
Sámuel Kiss is a junior data specialist currently studying at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN), Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ETTI). His main areas of interest include computation, information and automation, and comfortable programming in C++, Python, and R. At his young age, he has already acquired relevant experience in satellite model building. As a national level competitor, Sámuel’s team has received special awards in 2024 and 2025 at CanSat Hungary, a satellite model-building competition, where he participated as the team’s software developer and programmer of radio lead, responsible for the development of the satellite’s onboard software, and the design and operation of the radio data transmission. Besides this, he has previously developed original computer games for software assessment tests. Sámuel is a native Hungarian-speaker, is fluent in both English and Romanian, and plays an active organisational role at the Hungarian Scout Association in Romania.
