Humanitarian Action Study Group

Eka Zuni Lusi Astuti is a PhD student in the International Structured PhD (ISPhD), Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. She doing research on political economy and farmer resistance. She has experience in social development studies since getting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social development and being a lecturer at the Department of Social Development and Welfare, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Having several research, publications, and community engagements on social development, her focus study are on social movements, community development, and social entrepreneurship.

Safiye Ergun is currently a Structured PhD researcher in Politics at University of Limerick, studies broadly on International Relations (IR). She is an enthusiastic researcher for academia and proved this with her two bachelor's diplomas plus a master's degree that all about politics. Her academic interests cover regional studies, world politics, global political economy, critical theories of IR, non-Western perspective in IR, postcolonialism, poststructuralism, neo-Gramscianism. She enjoys to study about Inter-Governmental Organizations (like the UN and WB) and the Asian cases. Safiye has one peer-reviewed article and a published master's thesis. Besides, she has written plenty editorials for a think-tank's website while she was working there as a researcher.