I am a PhD researcher at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication (VTC). My doctoral research focuses on accent bias in recruitment in Flanders. I study how both regional and foreign accents influenc…
Sofie Beunen
Sofie Beunen is a Baekeland PhD fellow, conducting her research in collaboration with the Centre for Diversity and Learning and TAJO vzw. Her PhD focuses on the study-choice process of disadvantaged youth during the tran…
JRS Belgium
JRS Belgium is an NGO that accompanies, supports and defends the rights of refugees and other forced migrants, enabling them to take control of their own future. Specifically, JRS Belgium visits people in detention on a…
Zahra El Morabit Sghire
Zahra El Morabit Sghire earned her Master’s degrees in Language and Literature (English) and (French-Spanish), both summa cum laude, from Ghent University in 2023 and 2022, respectively. In 2023, Zahra began her PhD rese…
Hannah Grondelaers
Hannah Grondelaers is an FWO PhD Fellow at Ghent University's Social Work and Social Pedagogy Department and is affiliated to the UNU-CRIS Migration and Social Policy cluster in Bruges. She conducts research on Ukrainian…
Brent Theys
I am Brent Theys. After earning my educational bachelor’s degree in English and Catholic Religion at Thomas More (2020) and my master’s in Educational Sciences at the University of Antwerp (2022), including an FSW Honour…
Amal
Amal is the Agency for Integration and Civic Integration of Ghent. Amal has been supporting international newcomers in finding their way for about 50 years now. Together with our partners in Ghent, we offer newcomers cus…
Ouders voor Inclusie vzw
Parents for Inclusion is a volunteer organization consisting of, for and by parents of children with specific needs. We aim to support the right to an inclusive life by empowering parents and assisting them in situations…
Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen
Catholic Education Flanders is the umbrella organisation of more than 2,400 Catholic educational institutions in Flanders and Brussels, representing over 935,000 pupils and students. We support schools in their pedagogic…
Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen
Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen is dedicated to protecting the rights and promoting the well-being and social participation of refugees and asylum seekers in Belgium. We provide practical and legal support, foster integrati…
SOI
The Stedelijk Opvanginitiatief (SOI, Municipal Reception Initiative) is part of the City's Asylum and Refugee Team and offers small-scale, high-quality reception and support to 103 applicants and beneficiaries of interna…
Marco Formisano
Professor of Latin Literature in the Department of Literary Studies, a senior member of the GCLA (Ghent Center for Late Antiquity) and a member of the Doctoral School "Migrazioni, Differenze, Giustizia Sociale" at the Un…
Juliette Michaud
Juliette is currently enrolled in a joint PhD at Ghent University and ULB in Brussels. She obtained her Master's Degree in Multidisciplinary Translation from the Institut supérieur de traducteurs-interprètes (formely IST…
Kim Dierckx
Kim Dierckx works as a doctoral assistant at the Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University) and is also affiliated with the interdis…
Katrien Vanthomme
Katrien Vanthomme obtained a PhD in Social Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2017) and a master in sociology (Ghent University, 2008). She is an Assistant Professor Epidemiology and Prevention of Cancer within the De…
Walaa Ammar
Walaa Ammar is a postdoctoral fellow at ICRH, Ghent University, where she coordinates research activities and contributes to strategic and operational planning. Her research focuses on the intersections of health and hum…
Ruben Wissing
Ruben is a postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Migration Law Research Group. His research interests are situated at the intersection of refugee, human rights and international law, and entails doctrina…
Laura Robaey
Laura Robaey is a doctoral researcher at Ghent University, in the German section of the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Linguistics and a Master’s degre…
Anthe Baele
Anthe Baele is a historian and FWO doctoral student at the Department of History at Ghent University. After obtaining a master's degree in History at Ghent University, she completed an International Advanced Master's deg…
Aimee Kelley
Aimee Kelley is a PhD student at Ghent University and has a background in creative writing, law, and public health. She studies how secondary schools in Denmark and England support the wellbeing of newcomer adolescents i…
CGG VBO
In 2019, several institutions in Leuven decided to join forces. Since then, these core partners have formed an evolving network, an interesting model of collaboration for psychosocial and mental health care in Leuven. Ac…
KASKcinema
KASKcinema, the quirky cinema on the Bijloke site, shows films outside the mainstream circuit. Three evenings a week, it screens classics from the canon of film history, unreleased contemporary festival films and more ar…
Minor-Ndako vzw
Minor' is the Latin word for minor, 'Ndako' means household or shelter in Lingala, a Congolese language. The combination reflects what we want to be: a warm nest for minors and living together in harmony regardless of d…
Fedasil Gent Boot
Fedasil Gent Boot is one of the federal reception centres that has been providing shelter to around 250 applicants for international protection since 2020. They are involved in the CESSMIR master's thesis atelier “Nachtv…
Stijn Joye
Stijn Joye is associate professor at the Department of Communication Sciences (UGent) and member of the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Center for Journalism Studies and Health, Media & Society. He was a lecturer at…
Thomas Spijkerboer
Thomas Spijkerboer (1963) is research professor of Migration Law at Ghent University, where he leads the project Global Migration Justice: Beyond conflicting approaches to migration and international human rights law (MI…
Wendelien Vantieghem
Wendelien is assistant professor at the Centre for Diversity & Learning (Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts & Philosophy-Ghent University). Her work focuses on inequity in education based on gender, sexual orient…
Sara Willems
Sara Willems leads the research group on equity in (primary) health care. This interdisciplinary research group leads or partners in numerous national and international research projects on the relation between health ca…
Sarah Van Hoof
Sarah Van Hoof is associate professor of Dutch and multilingual communication. Her research is situated in the domain of sociolinguistics. Central themes in her work are language ideology and language politics in postwar…
Sorana Toma
Sorana Toma is Associate Professor in Migration Studies at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and a member of CESSMIR. Her research focuses on the intersection of migration and health(care), with particular…
Stijn Baert
Peter Stevens
Peter A. J. Stevens (BA, MA Ghent University, MA, PhD Warwick University) is Professor in Qualitative Research Methods at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium). Stevens’ research inte…
Renata Enghels
Renata Enghels is appointed as a professor of Hispanic and Contrastive Romance linguistics at Ghent University, and applies corpus research within a functional and cognitive perspective. She is particularly interested in…
Robin Vandevoordt
Robin Vandevoordt is an Associate Professor in Migration studies at CESSMIR. He leads ethnographic research on two topics: social movements in solidarity with people on the move, and the role of different actors entangle…
Rossella Marino
Rossella Marino has obtained her PhD in Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Ghent University in September 2023, being also a PhD fellow at UNU-CRIS since 2019. Her research has revolved around European migration governanc…
Melissa Ceuterick
Melissa Ceuterick is a postdoctoral researcher at Hedera UGent. In her PhD she focused on the impact of migration on traditional medicine use among people of Andean descent in the UK (Bradford University, 2009). Her rese…
Michael Meeuwis
Michael Meeuwis (°1968) is professor at the department of African Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Antwerp with a sociolinguistic-ethnographic study of the la…
Katrijn Maryns
I am associate professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication My linguistic-ethnographic research examines multilingual practices and linguistic inequality in institutional contexts of asylum…
Kristiane Van Lierde
Kristiane Van Lierde is full professor at the Ghent University, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences (center for Speech and Language Sciences). Her research expertise is the assessment and treatment of voice, resonance…
Lesley Hustinx
Lesley Hustinx is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Social Theory at the Sociology Department of Ghent University. Her primary areas of interest are social theory, political sociology, critical citize…
Jill Alpes
Jill Alpes is a legal anthropologist of migration. At Ughent, her research focuses on the work of international human rights lawyers in brokering evidence on pushbacks from European borders. Over the last ten years, Jill…
Laura Smith-Khan
Dr Laura Smith-Khan is the first external affiliated member of CESSMIR. She is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of New England, Australia. From 2019 to 2024 she was Chancellor's Research Fellow at the University…
Louis Lippens
Louis Lippens is an FWO postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, specialising in labour economics with a focus on measuring, understanding, and addressing labour market discrimination. Holding a master’s degree in wo…
Ine Lietaert
Ine Lietaert holds a PhD in Social Work and works as an associate professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy where she teaches International Social Work and Mobility Justice. She combines this with a…
Marlies Casier
Marlies Casier is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Work, where she conducts research on solidarity with people on the move. She obtained her PhD in Political Science at Ghent University, with a thesi…
Ines Keygnaert
Ines Keygnaert is professor of sexual and reproductive health and coordinates the research line on violence and violation of sexual and reproductive health rights, as well as on gender and sexual health promotion in hard…
July De Wilde
July DE WILDE is associate professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research focuses on multilingualism, intercultural communication in migration contex…
Giacomo Orsini
Dr. Giacomo Orsini concluded his doctoral studies at the Department of Sociology of the University of Essex in 2016. Before joining Ghent University, he worked as postdoctoral researcher both at Essex and the Université…
Ilse Derluyn
Ilse Derluyn is full professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Ghent University (Belgium). Her main research topics concern the wellbeing of young refugees and migrants, unaccompanied refugee mino…
Ilse Ruyssen
Ilse Ruyssen is Associate Research Professor in Migration Economics at the Department of Economics of Ghent University and affiliated Research Fellow at the UNU-CRIS. Her research focuses on the factors shaping migration…
Evelien D’haeseleer
Evelien D’haeseleer, (she/her), is professor at the Center for Speech and Language Sciences at Ghent University and guest professor at the Musical Department of the Brussels Royal Conservatory. She works as a Speech Lang…
Fazilet Canbolat
Fazilet Canbolat is a visiting researcher in the Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting Department at Ghent University. Her post-doctoral project, titled "A Fieldwork on Addiction within the Scope of Intersubjectivity: A…
Floor Verhaeghe
I am the coordinator of CESSMIR. In this role, I foster collaborations between the various disciplines within CESSMIR and with partners outside of academia. My goal is to achieve societal impact as a result of these coll…
Chloé Lybaert
I am an Assistant Professor of Dutch as a Second Language in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication. My research can be situated in the field of (developmental) sociolinguistics. In my PhD I studie…
Ellen Desmet
Ellen Desmet is an Associate Professor of Migration Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University. She founded and heads the Migration Law Research Group (MigrLaw). Her research is situated at the interse…
Eva Derous
Eva Derous earned her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Leuven University. She worked at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and is currently employed as a full professor personnel psycho…
An Van Raemdonck
An is a social anthropologist and Arabist with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East and Belgium. Her research interests include contemporary social and cultural debates that revolve around globalization, div…
Bart Defrancq
Graduated as a Romance philologist in 1991, I successfully defended my PhD in 2002 in linguistics. In 2007 I moved to translation and interpreting studies. My research focusses on interpreting modes and interpreter-media…
Charlotte De Kock
Charlotte De Kock, MA, PhD, is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University. She teaches courses in qualitative research methods, critical criminology, and developed the course modu…
Ella van Hest
Ella van Hest is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, where she is a member of the MULTIPLES research group. Her research interests include language and migr…
Lisa Maria Franke
Lisa Maria Franke is research professor in Islamic Studies at Ghent University in the Department of Languages and Cultures. Her research and teaching focus on the social and intellectual history of Islam and being Muslim…
Yasmine Kaied
Yasmine Kaied is an assistant at the Department of Special Needs Education, doing her PhD affiliated with the research group Disability Studies at Ghent University under the supervision of Professor Dr. Elisabeth De Scha…
Simon O’Donovan
I am a doctoral researcher at the Department of Translation, Interpreting, and Communication, and also part of the MULTIPLES research group. I graduated from my Masters in Applied Linguistics at UCL/ IOE (London) in 2020…
Shauny Seynhaeve
Shauny Seynhaeve is a PhD student at the department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University. She holds a Master's degree in English and Dutch Linguistics and Literature and an additional Master…
Sari Goukens
Sari Goukens is a doctoral researcher currently working on a joint PhD project at the University of Antwerp and Ghent University. She aims to research the influence of interpreters on the entextualisation process during…
Soline Ballet
Soline Ballet (they/she) is a PhD researcher at the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy and is also affiliated to the Migration Law Research Group. Soline obtained a Master in Conflict and Development Studies a…
Woldegebriel Dagne Admasu
Woldegebriel Dagne Admasu is a doctoral researcher at the Migration Law Research Group, Ghent University. His PhD is funded by the NASCERE Joint Scholarship Program of Ghent University and Jimma University. His research…
Wai Chu Starry Chung
Starry Chung is a researcher at the Department of Conflict and Development, specialising in transnational diaspora politics, resistance, and social movements. Her research examines how diasporic communities engage in tra…
Toyah Van der Poten
Toyah Van der Poten is a PhD researcher at the Department of sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Ghent university. She has a history in documentary filmmaking and social-artistic work. The project she…
Sarah Derveeuw
I am a PhD student working within the Equity in Healthcare Unit, within the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. My project seeks to document ethno-racial and migrant-background inequalities in preventive health…
Mira Wyns
I’m a PhD researcher at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication (VTC). I conduct research in the field of accent bias, more specifically in Flemish secondary and higher education. I investigate whet…
Naïma Lafrarchi
Naïma Lafrarchi holds a law degree, Master of Science in Instructional and Educational Science, and a Master in Educational Science specialisation 'Curriculum Development and Innovation'. Lafrarchi also worked at the Kno…
Ophélie Mercier
Ophélie Mercier is a PhD Student in the department of Languages and Cultures. She graduated from Sciences Po Rennes and obtained a master in Conflict, Violence and Development at SOAS. Her first resaerch experience explo…
Rezart Hoxhaj
Rezart Hoxhaj holds a co-tutorship PhD in Economics of Migration from the University of Bari Aldo Moro and the University of Lille I. He was a research fellow at the Migration Policy Centre and at Roma Tre University. Hi…
Roos-Marie van den Bogaard
Roos-Marie van den Bogaard is a PhD candidate at Ghent University. She carries out research on the inclusion of families with international and temporary protection in Belgium as part of the REFUFAM project, which consis…
Sara Lembrechts
Sara Lembrechts is a PhD researcher at the Migration Law Research Group at Ghent University. She studies the position of children, young people and families in appellate asylum proceedings in Belgium, using a multidiscip…
Sara Delva
Sara Delva is an assistant in the Department of Translation, Interpretation and Communication and a member of the MULTIPLES research group. Her doctoral research deals with the right to language assistance for foreign-la…
Leni Linthout
Graduated as a Master in Social Work and Social Pedagogy, I aspire the ambition to advocate for equal rights for people in vulnerable situations – with a particular focus on migrants and refugees. Between November 2019 a…
Lies Saelens
Lies Saelens obtained a Master of Science in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at the University of Ghent in July 2022. Since the 1st of September 2022, Lies has been working as a PhD researcher within the research…
Laurence De Backer
Laurence obtained her Master's in Spanish and English Linguistics and Literature at Ghent University, and is finishing a second Master's in Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. After being granted an FWO Fellow…
Julija Kekstaite
Julija Kekstaite is doctoraatsonderzoeker Sociologie aan de Universiteit Gent en lid van het interfacultair Centrum voor de Sociale Studie van Migratie en Vluchten (CESSMIR). Haar werk onderzoekt migratiebeheer, solidari…
Julie Daelman
Julie Daelman (she/her) is an academic assistant at the Center of Speech and Language Sciences (CELSAS; department of Rehabilitation Sciences) at Ghent University. She conducts research under the supervision of prof. dr…
Laura Schildt
Laura Schildt is a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in high-stakes language tests and policymaking in the immigration context. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Ghent, an MSc in Applied…
Marie Jacobs
Marie Jacobs is a post-doctoral researcher in the field of sociolinguistics. Next to a dedicated CESSMIR member, she is also part of the MULTIPLES Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Socie…
Marieke Vanbuel
Marieke Vanbuel is a postdoctoral researcher of FWO Flanders attached to the research group MULTIPLES of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of UGent, and to the research group Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation of…
Marjolein De Pau
Marjolein De Pau has acquired a bachelor’s degree in Applied Psychology, a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and a master’s degree in Conflict- and Development studies. Her professional experience as a clinical psyc…
Maud Martens
Maud Martens is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy and the Migration Law Research Group. She has a broad interest in socio-legal research on forced migration, with particular atten…
Lore Roels
Lore Roels (she/her) is a doctoral researcher at the Migration Law Research Group (MigrLaw) and the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) at Ghent University. She is a member of the interfaculty Centre for…
Lotte Morel
Lotte Morel obtained a Master of Science in Psychology (Clinical Psychology) in 2021, and a Master of Science in Conflict and Development Studies in 2023, both at Ghent University.In her PhD she combines her interests in…
Lotte Remue
Lotte Remue is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, where she graduated as an interpreter Dutch-French-English in 2022. Her PhD focuses on the multilingual resources and…
Louise Devos
Since September 2023, Louise has been working as a doctoral researcher in the field of labour economics at Ghent University. Prior to this, she studied Economic Sciences, with a major in Economic Policy, also at Ghent Un…
Emma Maes
Emma Maes is a PhD researcher at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication and a member of the research group MULTIPLES. She conducts research in the field of Second Language Acquisition(SLA) and focu…
Elsemieke van Osch
Elsemieke van Osch is a PhD researcher affiliated with CESSMIR, Ghent University, and with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven. She obtained an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in International…
Els Bekaert
Els Bekaert is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics at Ghent University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations University – CRIS, affiliated to the Nature, Climate and Health and Migration and Social Poli…
Elisa Robbe
In 2019, I graduated at as a Master of Arts in Interpreting (Dutch-Eng-Spanish), after which I continued a Master of Science in Conflict & Development Studies. These two masters gave me the tools to prepare a research ap…
Duha Ceylan
Duha is currently pursuing a joint interdisciplinary doctoral track as an FWO fellow in the Sociology department at VUB and the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Ghent University. Her research focuses on i…
Jolien Tegenbos
Junior researcher with 8 years of experience in the fields of conflict, displacement, humanitarianism and university development cooperation. I have a master's degree in History and in Conflict and Development Studies. M…
Jente De Coninck
Jente De Coninck is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Diversity & Learning (Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts & Philosophy – Ghent University) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wendelien Vantieghem. Jente rece…
Hilde Depauw
Hilde Depauw obtained her Master of Science in Psychology (Clinical Psychology) at Ghent University in 2020. In 2025, she obtained a joint PhD in Psychology and Sociology under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alain Van Hiel…
Geertrui Daem
Geertrui Daem is a PhD researcher at the Institute for Private International Law. Her empirical research focuses on the the complex legal problems refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection enncounter in Belgium…
Gaëlle Le Pavic
Gaëlle is a PhD Fellow at the Ghent University and the United Nations University CRIS. Her research documents and analyses the social consequences of not (fully) internationally recognised borders in Eastern Europe and t…
Flor Vandevelde
Flor Vandevelde is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Economics, supervised by Prof. Dr. Ilse Ruyssen. His research focuses on the consequences of restrictive migration policies implemented by countries of origin…
Ayse Güdük
Ayse Güdük is a PhD research fellow at the Migration Law research group at Ghent University. Ayse studied political science at VU Amsterdam (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). She obtained a bachelor and master degree in polit…
Camille Wets
After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing in 2017, Camille Wets graduated as a Master of Science in Sociology at the University of Ghent in September 2019. For her master thesis, she focused on the psychosocial we…
Dries Cavents
Dries started his academic career studying Applied Linguistics at the KU Leuven in Antwerp, with the language combination English, Italian and French. After two years in Belgium, he left for Italy for a year, where he co…
Delphine Van Muylem
Delphine's research is focused on (ethnic) diversity in the organizational context. She has obtained her masters' degree in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in 2022 and started as a PhD student…
A. Tancrède Pagès
A. Tancrède Pagès is a Ph.D. fellow at the Department of Social Work and Pedagogy and the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at University of Ghent. He received his ReMa in the Modern History and Internationa…
Aline Pouille
My PhD research at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Ghent University focused on recovery from problem substance use through the eyes and lived experiences of persons with a migration background and e…
Amar El-Omari
I graduated as a clinical psychologist in 2005 (UGent) and started working as a psychotherapist in Brussels. I've always been interested in the way migration, religion and identity influence each other. I've wrote multip…
