Team
Ulrich Schmiedel is the PI of FABRIC and Professor of Global Christianities at Lund University. Specializing in public and political theology, he has written widely on the role of religions in the public square. Currently, his research concentrates on the significance of diversity for migrant and postmigrant societies. As FABRIC's PI, Ulrich is responsible for research design, delivery, and dissemination. His own contribution explores the impact that faith-based and multi-faith-based refugee relief has on public discourse and political debates across Europe.
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg is Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Coordinator for FABRIC at Lund University. Her work bridges political sociology and the study of religion, connecting empirical insights from faith-based actors to broader debates on migration ethics, social inclusion, and the governance of forced migration. She is also interested in transnational political engagement, citizenship, external voting, and qualitative research methods. Within FABRIC, she investigates how faith-based diaspora organisations engage in refugee relief across Europe. She is also developing research on religious literacy in AI systems and interfaith dialogue technologies, aiming to bridge the moral and practical vocabularies of faith-based and secular institutions to foster better coordination and more effective refugee reception.
Dianne van den Bosch is a PhD Candidate in Ethics at Lund University. Within FABRIC, her research examines how refugee relief is practiced in migration contexts. Guided by an ethic of care, she combines empirical and conceptual methods to explore how foregrounding refugees’ experiences and narratives may enable a rethinking of care that advances more just and effective practices. She focuses in particular on faith-based organisations in European border spaces. By bringing together relational, refugee-led, and faith-based practices, her PhD project seeks to develop a framework of care that is ethically grounded, critically attentive, and responsive to the realities of those it serves.
Elise Lindkvist is a PhD Candidate in Global Christianity and Interreligious Relations at Lund University. She has 13 years of parish experience as a priest in the Church of Sweden, including teaching theology at the Church of Sweden Institute for Pastoral Education. Her research has focused on Christian-Muslim relations, the relationship between faith and the secular, and religious literacy (as a resident fellow at Harvard Divinity School). Within FABRIC, Elise explores how the 2025 requirements for faith-based actors to apply for funding in Sweden affect the practices of Christian and Muslim faith communities. Here, she combines document analysis with empirical work to explore the theological reasoning motivating Christian and Muslim faith communities in their work with migrants.
Jonathan Morgan is a researcher in ethics and an associate postdoc with FABRIC at Lund University. His work lies at the intersection of migration, religion, and public institutions. In connection with FABRIC, he investigates how officers at the Swedish migration agency (Migrationsverket) define religion through their encounters with people claiming asylum on the grounds of conversion to Christianity. Before moving to Sweden in 2016, he spent six years working with faith-based organisations in southern Africa and the Middle East.
The core team is supported by a consulting team consisting of Ryszard Bobrowicz (University of Bonn), Valentina Napolitano (University of Toronto), Regina Römhild (Humboldt University Berlin), Yafa Shanneik (Lund University), William Storrar (CTI Princeton / University of Edinburgh), and Alana Vincent (Umeå University).
