Ilse Derluyn

Supervisor

Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

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 minors, victims of trafficking and war-affected children, both in the Global North and South. She has widely published and is also active in training and support for practitioners and policymakers. Ilse also gives counselling to refugees. She is also actively involved in UGent-policy, including the '12th ZAP-member' in the Board of Governors, and previously as member of the Research Council. Ilse was ERC-grant holder of the research project ChildMove (www.childmove.eu) and coordinated the H2020-project RefugeesWellSchool (www.refugeeswellschool.org). She is director of the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) at Ghent University, and co-director of CCVS (www.ccvsinternational.org).

Email: Ilse.Derluyn@UGent.be

Phone: +32 9 264 64 02

Research themes:

Health, health care and psychosocial well-being || Borders, migration governance and people on the move || Human smuggling, human trafficking and exploitation || Children, youth and families