Shanneik’s work examines the intersections of religion, female agency and mobility across Europe and the Middle East, with a particular focus on women’s creative and transnational forms of resistance. She has conducted extensive multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among Muslim women across the Levant, Arab Gulf countries, Iran and various European countries.

A distinctive feature of her work is the use of immersive and arts-based methodologies. She integrates body-mapping, augmented reality and virtual reality to co-produce knowledge with displaced communities and to foreground lived experiences of displacement, agency and resistance