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Katarzyna Grabska is a social anthropologist, a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo where she leads a research focusing on arts, artists and activism in the context ofo war and exile (INSPIRE). Her research focuses on gender, generation, youth, displacement, refugees, arts and creative practice in war and displacement, return, and identities. She has researched displacement and forced migration issues in Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, Sudan, South Sudan, and Vietnam. Katarzyna works with visual methods (especially film), art-based research, feminist methodologies, and collaborative methodologies. She was also involved in collaborative film projects, including Time to look at girls: migrants in Ethiopia and Bangladesh and the long version of the film, 2 Girls. She wrote, produced and co-directed the film Barbara Harrell-Bond: a life not ordinary (2018). Katarzyna’s publications include Gender, Identity and Home: Nuer repatriation to South Sudan (2014), Forced Migration: Why Rights Matter? (2008), a co-writer of Adolescent Girls’ Migration in the Global South: Transitions into Adulthood (2019) and co-editor of Documenting Displacement (2022).