Jo Boyce

Jo joined the Refugee Studies Centre in January 2025 and is responsible for managing all the Centre's communications activities. She is also Deputy Editor (maternity cover) for Forced Migration Review. 

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.