Profile

Eva Garcke has been working on the research project "Finance in Displacement: Exploring and Strengthening Financial Lives of Forcibly Displaced Persons" (FIND) as a research consultant on the side of KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt since summer 2019. She contributes her experience in the region gained during several years in Jordan and her expertise in the field of flight and migration. Her master's thesis is based on empirical material collected by the FIND project in Jordan and looks into the effects of gender role changes among female household heads in the context of refugees of different nationalities in Jordan.

Research interests

• Gender in displacement
   

Education and career

• Since 05/2020: Project Associate Deutsche Welle Akademie, Department North Africa and Middle East

• Since 08/2019: Research Consultant, FIND Project, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

• Since 09/2018: Master's student in Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen

• 02-07/2018: Internship at GIZ Jordan in the field of higher education for refugees

• 02-07/2017: Social Work Professional Diploma with Migrants and Refugees, German-Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan

• 03/2016-09/2017: Scholarship Coordinator, German-Jordanian University Amman, Jordan

• 2015-2016: Freelance trainer in the field of political education for youth

• 2011-2015: Bachelor's degree in Islamic Studies and Education, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

• 09/2009-09/2010: Voluntary service with the German Development Service (now GIZ) in Borongan, Philippines