Given the growing use of remote and online methods, we argue that the discipline of political science must account more seriously for the muddling of our homes and fields to support rigorous, transparent, and ethical empirical research.

We contend that the overlap of our homes and fields in digital fieldwork poses different challenges for our professional boundaries than offline research, particularly in terms of separating our personal and research lives, mitigating risk, and protecting our mental health.

The paper moreover highlights acute grassroots implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine and challenges for social cohesion to be addressed going forward.

As the first study exploring twice internally displaced women’s relationships with ‘home’ – in Ukraine and globally – the paper pushes forward our understanding of secondary internal displacement and the experiences of women forced to rebuild their lives a second time.

We show that, for twice internally Ukrainian displaced women, ‘home’ represents lost physical places, severed social ties, and a feeling they have or seek to (re)establish.

And a massive thank you is due to @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social for collaborating and turning our Twitter conversations into a fantastic coauthorship!