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Sandra King-Savićمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Migration Studies
• Diaspora Studies
• Transnational Practices
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Sandra King-Savić is a PostDoc researcher specializing in migration studies with a focus on Central and Southeast Europe at the University of St. Gallen's School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a doctorate in Organization Studies from the University of St. Gallen (2019) and has developed a robust research profile examining transnational practices, diaspora formation, and integration processes, particularly among former Yugoslav communities in Switzerland. Her research interests span migration studies, diaspora formation, transnational practices, informal economies, and Southeast European studies. Dr. King-Savić employs ethnographic methods to explore how migrants experience and conceptualize belonging, with particular attention to labor migrants and refugees from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Her work bridges migration theory, anthropology, and political science, consistently emphasizing emic perspectives - understanding migration from the viewpoint of those who have experienced it. Dr. King-Savić's publication record shows a strong trajectory with her 2020 Routledge monograph 'Forging Transnational Belonging through Informal Trade' establishing her scholarly voice. Her recent work increasingly focuses on irregular migration, comparative diaspora studies, and integration theory, with multiple 2023-2024 publications examining belonging, research ethics with vulnerable populations, and transnational networks. Her research demonstrates consistent thematic development from her doctoral work on black-market practices toward broader questions of migration governance and migrant agency. Among her notable achievements: Swiss National Foundation grant for doctoral research (2014-2019) Foreign Military Studies Office research assistantship (2011-2012) Co-Principal Investigator for the Horizon-CL2-2022 Transformations-01 Grant project 'PRIME' (2023-2026) Extensive publication record including monograph, peer-reviewed articles, and book chapters Dr. King-Savić maintains an active teaching schedule at the University of St. Gallen, offering courses on migration studies, transnational practices, and Southeast European studies. She leads the 'Voices of the Via Egnatia' research group, which explores historical and contemporary migration routes through innovative multimedia approaches. Her current research agenda focuses on protecting irregular migrants in Europe, examining how integration is experienced by former Yugoslav migrants in Switzerland, and developing new theoretical frameworks for understanding migration and belonging.

Inga Kuźmaمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Ethnology
• Cultural Anthropology
• Gender Studies
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Dr. hab. Inga Kuźma serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Lodz within the Ethnography and Folklore Research Lab, Faculty of Philosophy and History. Her academic profile demonstrates sustained engagement with ethnological and anthropological research through 73 documented publications, 4 research projects, and 14 professional activities. The Faculty of Philosophy and History provides the institutional framework for her interdisciplinary work spanning cultural anthropology, gender studies, and urban ethnography. Her research interests focus on ethnology and cultural anthropology with specialized expertise in gender dynamics, war legacy studies, urban anthropology (particularly Lodz-focused research), homelessness, and herstory. The tag cloud generated from her documented output reveals consistent thematic threads: łódź etnologia antropologia kult, gender, city, war, bezdomność (homelessness), and cultural heritage. Her work bridges theoretical frameworks with empirical studies of post-industrial urban transformation. Kuźma's scholarly output shows evolving trends from historical ethnology toward contemporary urban issues, with increasing emphasis on gendered experiences and social marginalization. Her recent publications demonstrate methodological innovation in digital ethnography while maintaining deep engagement with Lodz's specific socio-historical context. The interdisciplinary nature of her work connects cultural anthropology with urban studies, gender theory, and memory studies. Professional recognition includes two documented achievements in the University of Lodz system, with active participation in research projects and academic activities. Her ORCID profile (0000-0003-0195-0270) and presence in major academic databases (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar) confirm her standing in the international research community. As a supervisor, she has guided at least one doctoral student to completion. Her research projects likely involve community engagement through the Ethnography and Folklore Research Lab, though specific lab structures aren't detailed in the source material. Office hours are maintained on Tuesday afternoons (16:45-18:15), indicating active teaching and student supervision responsibilities.

Fiona Costelloمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Migration Law
• Brexit Impact
• EU Settlement Scheme
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Fiona Costello is a Researcher at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law, specializing in migration law and Brexit impacts. She co-leads the ESRC-funded EU Migrant Worker Project with Professor Catherine Barnard through the UK in a Changing Europe Programme, focusing on low-paid EU nationals in the UK. Her research interests center on the practical implementation of migration policies, particularly the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). She examines how bureaucratic processes affect vulnerable communities, including issues with digital application barriers, paper-based alternatives, and the intersection of immigration status with housing insecurity and labor rights abuses. Her work highlights systemic challenges in 'hostile environment' policies through community-led research partnerships. Costello's publication trends reveal consistent focus on frontline implementation gaps in migration policies since 2021. Her research spans digital governance challenges, labor exploitation in sectors like poultry processing, and the compounded vulnerabilities of EU migrants during crises like the pandemic. The work consistently bridges academic analysis with community advocacy, emphasizing the human impact of policy design. She maintains strong partnerships with frontline organizations including GYROS and ACCESS in Norfolk/Suffolk, ensuring research reflects ground-level realities. Her methodology uniquely combines academic rigor with community-led insights from over a decade of direct support work with migrant communities. Costello's advisory work focuses on translating research into practical policy improvements, particularly regarding vulnerable groups' access to legal support. Her grant portfolio includes ESRC funding through the UK in a Changing Europe initiative, with additional support from community organizations for localized impact projects. Her research operates through deep collaboration with community advice agencies, treating them as equal research partners rather than data sources. This approach creates living laboratories for policy implementation analysis in real-time migration contexts.

Alexander Ahammerمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Health Economics
• Labor Economics
• Risky Behavior
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Alexander Ahammer is an Associate Professor (tenured) at Johannes Kepler University Linz's Kurt Rothschild School of Economics and Statistics since 2025, previously serving as Assistant Professor (tenure track) from 2019-2025. His academic home is the Department of Economics where he teaches Public, Health, and Environmental Economics, Data and Research Designs in Economics, and supervises Master's theses. His research focuses on the intersection of health and labor economics using applied microeconometrics. Key interests include health effects of labor market policies, risky behaviors, healthcare demand, and job insecurity. His work frequently analyzes administrative datasets to evaluate policy impacts on worker health outcomes. Analysis of his recent publications reveals consistent methodological rigor in causal inference applied to health-labor nexus topics. Major thematic clusters include: 1) Labor market shocks (downsizing, unemployment) affecting health, 2) Substance use policy evaluation, 3) Intergenerational health transmission, and 4) Gender-specific health economics. His work appears in top journals including Journal of Public Economics , Journal of Health Economics , and Review of Economics and Statistics . His scientific recognition includes: Hanns Abele Preis (2024) Young Economists Award (2017) Ahammer actively disseminates research through 55+ academic activities including invited talks at major institutions. As Principal Investigator for the ongoing project 'What determines worker motivation?' (2023-2026), he examines labor incentives. His teaching portfolio demonstrates commitment to graduate education through thesis supervision and specialized seminars. He maintains strong international connections as a Research Affiliate at IZA Institute of Labor Economics since 2023.

• Human Resource Management
• Work-Life Balance
• Job Insecurity
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Dr. Asma Begum serves as a Lecturer at the School of Management and Marketing, University of Westminster, bringing international teaching experience from the UK, UAE, and India. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), she holds a Doctorate in Human Resource Management from University of Bolton alongside an MBA and M.Phil in Economics. Her educational background includes: Doctorate in Human Resource Management (University of Bolton) MBA (Institution unspecified) M.Phil in Economics (Institution unspecified) Dr. Begum's research explores Human Resource Management through critical lenses of work-life balance, job insecurity, and pandemic impacts across UAE and Indian contexts. She extends into Marketing (consumer behaviour) , Sustainable Development , and cross-disciplinary projects including renewable energy systems and aerospace engineering. Her work emphasizes practical organizational applications while addressing contemporary socioeconomic challenges. Analysis of her 2021-2025 publications reveals consistent output in high-impact areas: pandemic-related remote work studies (UAE), job insecurity (India), sustainable school models, and innovative engineering-business integrations. This demonstrates unusual versatility bridging management theory with technical fields. Her scientific recognition includes: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) Dr. Begum actively supports student development through industry-integrated teaching, academic misconduct oversight, plagiarism prevention initiatives, and career placement facilitation. Her community engagement spans charity events like The Bazaar fundraiser for Sharjah's Salam Ya Seghar Campaign, Abu Dhabi Science Festival participation, and environmental initiatives. Current supervision focuses on Human Resource Management and Marketing topics with strong empirical and cross-cultural dimensions. While no dedicated research laboratory is mentioned, her collaborative work with engineering teams on projects like solar refrigeration systems and aircraft wing design indicates robust interdisciplinary networks across management, sustainability, and technical domains.

Georgina Rojas Garcíaمشاهده پروفایل

استاد پژوهش

• Labor Market
• Urban Studies
• Social Anthropology
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Georgina Rojas García is a Research Professor at the Center for Research and Higher Education in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City, holding this position since 2003. She currently serves as Regional Director of the CIESAS Mexico City Unit (September 2022–present) and previously coordinated the Postgraduate Program (Master's and Doctorate) from 2015 to 2017. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her academic journey includes visiting scholarships at the University of California, Riverside (2008–2009), and UCLA/University of Minnesota (2017–2018). Dr. Rojas García's research centers on Mexico's labor market dynamics, with emphasis on industrial restructuring, job insecurity, and heterogeneous employment structures. She pioneered studies on domestic work and political organization of women workers within informal labor contexts. Current projects analyze domestic worker organization in modern Mexico, COVID-19 impacts on older adults, and binational street vendor comparisons between Mexico and the United States. Her scholarly recognition includes: SNI Level II (National System of Researchers, Mexico) She has published extensively in national and international journals and contributed to collective books as author and coordinator. As Academic Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program, she shaped graduate curricula and mentored emerging researchers in social anthropology and labor studies.

Alec Rhodesمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Economic Sociology
• Inequality
• Poverty
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Alec Rhodes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University, specializing in economic sociology with a focus on inequality, financial insecurity, and institutional policy impacts. His research integrates political economy, demographic, and spatial perspectives to examine life course inequality accumulation and policy interventions. His educational background includes: PhD in Sociology, 2023, Ohio State University MA in Sociology, 2020, Ohio State University BA in Sociology and Economics, 2018, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Rhodes employs advanced quantitative methods including longitudinal data analysis and causal modeling with survey and administrative datasets. His work spans labor market institutions, credit/debt dynamics, geographic disparities, and racial-ethnic poverty gaps, emphasizing how power structures shape economic outcomes across careers and communities. Current projects investigate unionization's wealth effects, debt collection's mental health consequences, and state safety net policies' interaction with credit markets. His publication trends reveal interdisciplinary engagement with journals like Rural Sociology, Social Forces, and Nature Human Behaviour, focusing on empirical analyses of institutional mechanisms driving financial advantage and disadvantage. Key thematic clusters include labor union impacts on wealth accumulation, geographic stratification in student debt, and welfare-credit tradeoffs in low-income populations. Scientific recognition: 2019-2020 Olaf Larson Graduate Student Paper Award from the Rural Sociological Society Rhodes collaborates extensively with scholars including Rachel Dwyer, Jason Houle, and Stephanie Moulton across institutions like UW-Madison and Ohio State. His research utilizes National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, Health and Retirement Study datasets, and proprietary credit bureau records, indicating substantial external funding support for projects examining housing wealth, racial poverty gaps, and Right to Work legislation impacts. Ongoing work addresses debt collection pressure, employment quality in later-life poverty, and mortgage debt's health implications among older homeowners.

Annabelle Hoferمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Organizational Behavior
• Sustainable Career Development
• Precarious Work
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Annabelle Hofer is a Junior Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Cologne's Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo Faculty), appointed in September 2022. She serves as an Investigator and Cluster member in the ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy Cluster of Excellence since 2023, contributing to the Key Research Initiative in Behavioral Management Science (BMS) within the university's Core Profile Area of Social and Economic Behavior. Her research focuses on sustainable organizational behavior and human resource management, with particular emphasis on precarious work, gig economy dynamics, career insecurity, and sustainable career development. Dr. Hofer investigates how employees navigate work and career-related insecurities in modern labor markets, examining the psychological impacts of precarious work arrangements and new forms of employment. Dr. Hofer's publications reveal a strong research trajectory in career psychology, with recent work exploring multidimensional career insecurity, the psychological effects of competitive workplace climates, and how career shocks impact professional optimism. Her research bridges organizational psychology with practical HR management applications, contributing significantly to understanding worker management in contemporary organizations. Her academic journey includes a postdoctoral position at Bern University of Teacher Education and teaching roles at multiple Swiss institutions between 2019-2022. She completed her PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Bern in 2019, following Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Psychology from Trier University in Germany.

• Service Design
• Information Science
• Library Science
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Roman Sellner Novotný serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies and Library Science at Masaryk University's Faculty of Arts, actively teaching design, information systems, and digital media courses through Spring 2026. His institutional affiliation includes membership on the Program Board for Information Services Design (Bachelor's Degree) and office location in building C/C.123 at Arna Nováka 1, Brno. His research integrates service design with societal challenges, focusing on housing crises, post-Anthropocene transitions, and library innovation as social incubators. He pioneers methodologies extending beyond human-centered design to incorporate non-human elements and systemic thinking, particularly examining eviction dynamics, digital identity in commons-based systems, and climate crisis responses through design lenses. Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals consistent interdisciplinary exploration at the intersection of design, sociology, and information science. Key trends include applying speculative design to housing insecurity, developing frameworks for non-human centered design in ecological contexts, and transforming libraries into social innovation hubs. His work demonstrates strong collaboration across sociology, urban studies, and digital humanities disciplines. No scientific awards are documented in available institutional records. As thesis supervisor, he guides bachelor's and diploma students through all stages from background research to final text completion. He actively organizes academic events including conferences on digital culture (Speaking Digital, 2021) and workshops on post-Anthropocene methodologies, contributing to scholarly discourse through event curation and collaborative research projects.

• Public administration
• Governance
• Gender studies
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Agnete Vabø serves as Vice-Dean for Research and Innovation at Oslo Metropolitan University's Faculty of Social Sciences, specifically within Oslo Business School's Public Administration and Governance department. Her leadership role encompasses strategic oversight of research activities and innovation initiatives across the faculty. Dr. Vabø's research interests span public administration, governance, gender studies, and internationalization in higher education. She examines academic labor markets, diversity and inclusion policies, organizational identity in academic settings, and the geopolitical dimensions of research collaboration. Her work frequently addresses gender balance in research environments, particularly in climate science and international contexts, and explores barriers to recruitment and career advancement in academia. Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on the intersection of geopolitics and academic internationalization, with particular attention to Scandinavian contexts. Her research demonstrates consistent engagement with gender dynamics in globalized research environments, organizational identity formation in higher education institutions, and diversity challenges in academic recruitment. The R-INSECURE project examining tensions between national security and internationalization represents a significant current research direction. As Vice-Dean for Research and Innovation, Dr. Vabø leads the faculty's research strategy development and implementation. She oversees the Organization and Management in the Public Sector research group and contributes to the Public Administration and Governance research group. Her current R-INSECURE project addresses evolving tensions between national security and internationalization in Norwegian research organizations, while her completed GAP project investigated globalization's influence on gender balance in research and higher education.