PhD Blog

This month´s post is a little different. It will not be about my research (at least not directly), or about breaking knowledge trends in Migration Studies. Instead, this post is about my personal experience as a PhD candidate and some choices I made to...
Recently, I read a report on the effects of Covid-19 on the workplace. One of the main finding was that “diverse employees” struggle the most during the Covid-19 period. I thought to myself – “ diverse employees”? What does that mean? If there are...

This blog post is part of the IMISCOE PhD blog series in which I write on some of the most salient issues of national identity and nationalism within academic research. Source: Javier Robles, pixabay.com Calls for re-examining the concept of integration...
Migrants have been important actors in grassroots mobilizations that address migrant concerns in Europe (Rosenberger, Stern, and Merhaut 2018). In the case of Germany, for example, migrants and refugees have found different ways of organizing themselves...
Migrants have been important actors in grassroots mobilizations that address migrant concerns in Europe (Rosenberger, Stern, and Merhaut 2018). In the case of Germany, for example, migrants and refugees have found different ways of organizing themselves...
The current world scale coronavirus crisis is likely to instil radical changes in virtually all aspects of our societies, economies and polities. While the rhetoric of ‘Build Back Better’ clashes with calls for ‘Just Recovery’ and ‘Build Forward Better’...

This blog post is part of the IMISCOE PhD blog series in which I write on some of the most salient issues of national identity and nationalism within academic research. ‘How do we avoid the pitfalls of methodological nationalism while still studying...

Social distancing measures introduced around the world have pushed all of us into isolation to some extent. UK schools were closed on 20 March 2020 to help decrease the spread of Covid-19. School closures and social distancing, while necessary measures,...

With Black Lives Matter gaining new momentum in the past months, movements to decolonise education and the academy have also become more visible. Several academics have lamented that decolonising has become a buzzword which, if not given the correct...
Social distancing measures introduced around the world have pushed all of us into isolation to some extent. UK schools were closed on 20 March 2020 to help decrease the spread of Covid-19. School closures and social distancing, while necessary measures,...