Given the prevalence of internal displacement across the world, its absence in research agendas, funding calls, and academic institutions is notable and problematic. The recently launched Oxford University Press Handbook of Internal Displacement seeks to change that. This event brings together three of the Handbook’s contributors with an interdisciplinary group of migration scholars. Together we will reflect on the relevance of studying internal displacement for informing a wide array of social, political and economic phenomena both within and beyond the field of migration/mobility studies. We will ask how research on internal displacement relates to work on refugees, and explore a few unique aspects of internal displacement, such as processes of marginalisation and key challenges faced when conducting research in IDP contexts. This hybrid event welcomes discussion and Q&A with researchers from across Oxford University and more broadly focused on issues of internal displacement, (forced) migration and mobility studies.