Jo Boyce

Jo joined the Refugee Studies Centre in January 2025 as Communications Manager. She is currently Deputy Editor for Forced Migration Review (maternity cover).

Jo has more than 20 years' experience in communications and editorial roles. She was Communications Manager for ODID for more than ten years before moving to the RSC, and was also Assistant to the Editors for the journal Oxford Development Studies. Prior to that she worked for Dow Jones Newswires, as a freelance subeditor for national magazines and newspapers in London, at Agence France-Presse in Paris and at the Moscow Times in Moscow. She has a BA in Russian and Spanish from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Soviet Studies from the University of Manchester.