I am delighted to share a new version of our SYREALITY Handbook chapter about the quantitative data collection, which now includes a new sub-chapter about data cleaning. It’s open access. zenodo.org/records/1706...
📣 Two more weeks to apply for this qualitative postdoc position within my projects RESTATE and SYREALITY! 📣
❓ How do micro-(im)mobilities contribute to community engagement and local action?
Please spread the word and send us your contributions!
We ask:
❓ In which ways can micro-(im)mobilities serve as adaptation strategy for people at risk?
❓ How does social inequality shape processes of micro-(im)mobilities?
❓ How are life aspirations related to micro-(im)mobilities?
📣 IMISCOE 2026 Annual Conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Zooming In: Micro-(im)mobilities and local adaptation strategies for communities at risk
Panel organisors: Jan Niklas Janoth & myself
Deadline: 20 September 2025
💬 I’m hosting an informal online info session about the position and the PhD programme at our department on 8 September 2025, from 10:30 to 12:30 CET, on Zoom.
🔗 Register here if you're interested: donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The PhD position is based at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, Danube University Krems.
🔗 More details and application link (deadline: 30 September 2025):
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
The position involves research on refugees’ political agency and changing perceptions of the state. The PhD researcher will focus on the Syrian case study with qualitative fieldwork in Syria (online), Istanbul, and Berlin. There is room to shape the PhD project in line with your own interests.
📣 Vacancy for PhD position! 📣 I am looking for a qualitative PhD researcher (3 years, 30 hours/week) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement), starting preferably on 1 January 2026.
Travel expenses for attending the on-site interview in Krems can be reimbursed.
💬 I’m hosting an informal online info session about the position on 19 August 2025, from 12:30 to 14:30 CET, on Zoom.
🔗 Register here if you're interested:
donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🔗 More details and application link (deadline: 16 September 2025):
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
The position involves research on refugees’ (im)mobilities, political agency and changing perceptions of the state. The postdoc will co-lead the qualitative data collection of the ERC project and contribute to the analysis of both projects. The postdoc is based at the @demigkrems.bsky.social.
📣 Postdoc vacancy! I am looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement, 85%) and my project #SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality, 15%) starting preferably on 1 January 2026.
Congratulations to @leamullerfunk.bsky.social on being elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences @ya-oeaw.bsky.social! Discover more about her research projects & her efforts in supporting young researchers and promoting public science here: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/news/news...
I recently joined the iniative of the ÖAD to become a science ambassador at Austrian schools. In my opinion, it's a very important initative to strengthen trust in science in society and exchange about research early on. Please share and consider joining!
@romanhoffmann.bsky.social @lucykinski.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social @leamullerfunk.bsky.social @uguroeztuerk.bsky.social @laertepatera.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to host this inspiring group of scholars for two days in Krems this week & think together about ongoing research on #mobility #control as #state-(re)making in #conflict settings for our upcoming SI with Journal of Refugee Studies.
Honoured to have joined the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Science and slightly relieved that I am still considered young with my 39 years 👵 Looking forward to promote non-precarious work conditions, equality, diversity and interdisciplinarity in Austrian academia.
Inspiring IMISCOE Spring Conference coming to an end! Sad that I could not participate in person due to a broken leg but glad for its hybrid format to get an overview of and engage with exciting ongoing research & reflect on knowledge production, legal status transitions and blurred boundaries.
Great and important text!
An artistical map of the Austrian city of Krems. © Knut Hebstreit/ Adobe Stock
Do you examine the topic of migration using economic methods and theories? Then why not present your work at the next Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association? It will take place on Sept 23-24 2025 at @unikrems.bsky.social. The cfp is open til March 15: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/mig/noeg-...
New section of our SYREALITY Methodological Handbook available
We are happy to share the latest update of the #SYREALITY Methodological Handbook about our qualitative data collection. Chapter 3 now includes a new section on collaborative data collection, sampling strategies, experiences with…
Chapter 3 now includes a new section on collaborative data collection, sampling strategies, experiences with recruiting participants, & reflections on interview encounters by the whole team.
Happy to share the latest update of the #SYREALITY Methodological Handbook on the qualitative data collection. Hopefully it is of interest for people working with life histories and cognitive maps.
I am very much looking forward to starting my ERC project RESTATE about how refugees perceive and engage with the state throughout their displacement journeys, and how these perceptions shape their roles as political actors in September 2025. I am going to hire 2 postdocs and 1 PhD later this year!
Just saying a first hello here to fill my blank wall. I hope it is less violent and more social here.