Dorina holds a PhD from the University of Oslo Faculty of Law and an MLitt from the University of St Andrews School of International Relations. She has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law.
Drawing on feminist postcolonial studies, her research examines global inequality regimes, with a focus on the intersections of contemporary legal regimes, gender, and i/mobility. Dorina employs an interdisciplinary approach that integrates perspectives from the sociology of law, border criminologies, and climate change criminology.
Currently, she is exploring the gendered dimensions of dispossession and displacement caused by climate change adaptation programs in coastal areas in Bangladesh, Ghana and the Philippines. Along with Dr. Kathinka Evertsen (ISF), Dorina serves as co-Principal Investigator on the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) consortium project on Climate Change Adaptation, Dispossession, and Displacement.
She maintains an interest in the production of contemporary border regimes, including in terms of non/knowledge, in collaboration with Dr. Hallam Tuck (City, University of London) and Dr. Nik Ostrand (UiO ARENA).
Dorina's work has been recognised in international journals such as Sociology, British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, Punishment and Society, and other peer-reviewed journals and scholarly volumes.