LDE GMD - Key Persons
Alberto Estrada is a Ph.D. candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam; he holds an MA in Public Policy from the University of Guadalajara and a second MA in International Development from the University of Essex.
He focused his research on the governance and political economy of migration and development, (Im)mobility, and regional integration, mainly in Latin America.
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- Job Title / Member of the Events Committee
I joined the student board to take responsibility for my education and give back to the program. I enjoy the opportunity to help create an environment that facilitates learning and promotes student incorporation. As an events committee member, I enjoy organizing workshops, talks, and social events that enhance our experience in the masters program and provide additional skills to the cohort.
Arne van Lienden is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer at the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication, and Culture. His research focuses on the content and production of discourses surrounding race/ethnicity in Polish televised football and the audience's reception of these discourses. Arne's research is part of the NWO-funded research project How racist is televised football and do audiences react?
Carmen Longas Luque is a Ph.D. candidate at the Erasmus School of History, Culture, and Communication (ESHCC), Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research focuses on the construction of race/ethnicity through football media, more specifically, she tries to understand how discourses about race/ethnicity come about in football talk, focusing on the production, content, and reception processes. Her research focuses on the context of Spain but forms part of a broader project at the European level. Her research interests lie in issues related to inclusion/exclusion processes, inequalities, and discrimination. Furthermore, she is a teacher at the International Bachelor of Communication and Media (IBCOM) at the ESHCC.
Daphne's research activities are directed at diversity and inclusion in higher education. In 2019, she started her Ph.D. research on diversity in academic careers. Some of the questions she tries to answer in this project include: What role do academics and universities play in creating careers? How do unexpected events - so-called career shocks - impact on academic's career decisions and goals? And how can academics achieve career authenticity when navigating between their individual career priorities and the rigid academic career script? Furthermore, one of the aims is to gain more insight into the factors that account for the gender gap in academic leadership positions. To answer these research questions, a mixed-method approach is taken. Next to survey and bibliographic methods, she conducts longitudinal interview research in which a cohort of mid-career academics is followed for multiple years to unravel how they navigate their career.
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- Social Researcher from Egypt
Darah Hashem is a young social researcher from Egypt, building a career in international development at the nexus of migration and urbanism. She has completed a Master of Science in Urban Management and Development at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since she has a particular interest in gentrification, her thesis explored the impact of gentrification on the sense of belonging of residents from a migrant background in the neighborhood of Afrikaanderwijk in Rotterdam. Before starting her master's studies, she has conducted research on Egyptian labor migrants in Jordan as well as on Syrian refugees in Egypt. Darah's topics of interest include labor migration, gentrification, spatial justice, and environmental inequality. Darah is currently a freelance researcher.
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- Job Title / Assistant Professor Migration Development - International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam
I am an interdisciplinary scholar with research and teaching experience that transcend the disciplinary boundaries between political science, sociology, geography and socio-legal studies, with a thematic focus on mobility, migration and citizenship, and a regional expertise on Turkey, MENA and Europe.
I hold BA in Political Science from Boğaziçi University, MA in Social and Public Policy from University of Leeds, MA in Political Science from Sabanci University. I completed my PhD in the Interdisciplinary Near and Middle Eastern Studies program and Graduate Certificate in Law and Society Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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- Job Title / Associate Professor at the Faculty of Human - Centered Design at Delft University of Technology
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- Research Officer / Postdoctoral Researcher
Mirjam Twigt is a Research Officer / Postdoctoral Researcher for the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity (LDE GMD) . Her work is geared toward supporting interdisciplinary research on the interrelationship between migration AND diversity and the politics and power involved . She is primarily based at the Institute of History at the University of Leiden .
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- Job Title / Associate Professor of Urban Regeneration and Neighbourhood Change at TU Delft
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- Co - Founder and Director of Education Lab NL
- Job Title / Co - Founder and Director of Education Lab NL
Dr. Tijana Prokic-Breuer is co-founder and director of Education Lab NL (https://education-lab.nl/ ). Education Lab NL is a social innovation lab that aims to improve the quality of education by bringing together science and educational practice to work together on evidence-informed educational improvement and innovation. Tijana led several research projects where co-creation between scientists and education professionals is central, such as the research on the effects of the Covid-19 crisis on the learning performance of Dutch students and on effective interventions to combat it. She is also responsible for the recently awarded collaboration with the City of Amsterdam in the field of knowledge utilization and creation: Education Knowledge Network Amsterdam (https://ona.amsterdam/) and Masterplan Zuidoost. Both of these projects aim to develop a regional knowledge network to promote sustainable improvement and innovation in education. Within these collaborations, she works with different stakeholders (policymakers, school leaders, and teachers) on experimental research on effective interventions to promote equal opportunities in education, reduce language deficits and stimulate the development of schools as learning organizations.
Tijana holds a Ph.D. from the European Institute in Florence (2011), after which she gained extensive (inter)national experience as a consultant and researcher. Tijana was the project leader at the Inspectorate of Education and one of the lead authors of the State of Education. She worked as a senior consultant at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris where she worked on several projects such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study. She was senior consultant and author of the 2016 evaluation report of the Dutch education system (Netherlands 2016: Foundations for the Future).
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- Professor and Associate Professor of European Law - the Europa Institute of Leiden University
Mandy Koenraads has completed a postgraduate MSc (Research) in International Development Studies (with a specialization in Peacebuilding and Education) at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to her Master's degree in research, she completed an undergraduate BSc (Honours) in Public Administration from the University of Leiden. Throughout her academic career, she followed an exchange programme in South Africa and has conducted independent research in Sri Lanka. After working in the field of education for 2.5 years, her role as the coordinator of the Scriptiewerkplaats Den Haag Zuid-West is to develop this crossover initiative between research, policy, and practice. Mandy is based at University Leiden, Campus the Hague, FGGA in close collaboration with ISS the Hague.
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- Assistant Professor
- Job Title / Assistant Professor ( Department of Public Administration and Sociology ( DPAS / ESSB ) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Mark M.A.C. van Ostaijen is an Assistant Professor affiliated to the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS/ ESSB) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He works as Managing Director of the LDE Centre Governance of Migration and DiversityOpent extern and is participating in the European University of Post-Industrial CitiesOpent extern.
In his previous research project at Tilburg University, SmartUrbIOpent extern, he conducted etnographic fieldwork on how 'smart urban intermediaries' make a difference in neighborhoods of Amsterdam, Glasgow, Birmingham and Copenhagen. Before he started at Tilburg University, Mark worked as lecturer and PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and at the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB).
In 2013 (together with prof. dr. Godfried Engbersen and prof. dr. Peter Scholten) he received a NWO Urban Europe Research Grant on the research project ‘IMAGINATION' which resulted in his PhD dissertation 'Worlds between words'Opent extern, awarded as ‘Best PhD thesis' by the Erasmus Graduate School.
During his PhD research, he was one of the founders and chairman of the IMISCOE PhD network, an Organizing Committee Member of the Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) conference in Leicester (UK) and a visiting doctoral research fellow at De Montfort University (UK).
Recently, he published a Dutch book ‘Wij zijn ons. Een kleine sociologie van grote denkers'Opent extern (Vantilt / BoomOpent extern, 3th edition), (see here for coverage at NRCOpent extern, VolkskrantOpent extern, NDOpent extern and VNOpent extern) a Committee Member of the Colloquium Critical and Interpretive Public Administration at the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG), editor of Beleid & Maatschappij and columnist for Sociologie Magazine.
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- Job Title / Program Director - Refugees, Gemeente Rotterdam