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Sana Murrani is an Associate Professor with a background in Architecture and Urban Design. She serves as the Arts/Health Research Lead and is the founder of the Displacement Studies Research Network and co-founder of the Justice Imagination Global Displacement Research Collective. Currently based at the University of Plymouth, she is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. Her research interests focus on (un)disciplined interdisciplinarity and spatial justice, emphasizing creative, place-based research practices centered around built, destroyed, and imagined geographies in contexts of war, violence, and displacement. She has a forthcoming monograph contracted with Bloomsbury titled 'Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices in Response to War and Violence in Iraq' and leads various projects funded by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, including fieldwork titled 'Ruptured Domesticity' in Iraq. Her current work includes an AHRC Impact Accelerator Fellowship project titled 'Ruptured Atlas: Creative Mapping of Yazidi Odyssey of Home, Displacement, Migration and Return,' reflecting a partnership involving Sinjar Academy, Yazda, IOM Iraq, and the LSE Middle East Centre. Murrani's expertise spans the Middle East, architecture, and spatial justice.