Sociologist Diana Bogishvili worked as a researcher at ZOiS until October 2024. Since November 2024, she has been an affiliated researcher at ZOiS. Her doctoral studies at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin focus on the sociocultural effects of migration on young Georgian migrants and their relatives in Georgia. Bogishvili identifies the metaphors in spoken language that reflect the cognitive and emotional feelings of her interviewees. From 1994 to 1998, she studied Philosophy at Tbilisi State University in Georgia. In 2002, she began her studies in Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, graduating in 2008. Prior to her doctoral studies, Diana Bogishvili taught at Ilia State University and Caucasus University and conducted research at the Center for Social Sciences (CSS), all in Tbilisi. At CSS, she directed a research project on Georgian National Identity: Conflict and Integration and also studied the integration of national minorities (Armenians and Azerbaijanis) in Georgia.

• Migration and Transformation in Metaphors – The Transnational Lifeworlds of Georgian Educational Migrants in Germany and their Families in Georgia

• Project to Initiate Research and Cooperation between EU and Eastern Partnership countries (RemitEU)