Manya is a sociologist of education and migration, focusing on how education and migration policy affect displaced children and families in urban areas. She is an Archimedes Postdoctoral fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. Manya works in the Migration and Sustainable Development Group, led by Dr. Roman Hoffmann. She is working on a project that examines the urban readiness of education and health systems in Uganda, Bangladesh, Poland, Germany, Brazil, and Israel to receive displaced children. Before joining IIASA, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the “Global Shifts: Urbanization, Migration and Climate Change” program at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania. Manya received my Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from Ben Gurion University in the Negev in 2023. Her dissertation project focused on the integration of refugee children in primary schools in Kampala, Uganda.
In addition to her research, Manya has taught courses on research methods, childhood and youth, development and forced migration.