13.11.2024 , in ((Experiences))
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Anna Marino
Europe’s borders are not just distant physical barriers but powerful forces shaping how we perceive and manage migration across the continent. “Thinking Outside the Border,” an illustrated booklet launched by doctoral researcher Anna Marino, focuses on this reality. Created with the activist Simone Gavazzi and illustrator Arianna Sisani, the project
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04.09.2024 , in ((Experiences))
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Jinjin Zhang
In a world where state power is tightening its grip, how do we make sense of the desire for mobility? And what does digital nomadism look like in the Global South, especially in a country like China during the COVID-19 era? While the pandemic may feel like a thing of
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06.06.2024 , in ((Experiences))
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Sara de Athouguia Filipe, Vestin Hategekimana, Anna Marino, Carol Pierre, Didier Ruedin, Mathis Schnell and Great Udochi
In the spirit of a hackathon, we, a team of researchers, launched an ambitious project to write a complete academic paper in a day. While facing challenges such as time constraints as well as difficulties in collaborative simultaneous writing, by the end of the day, we kind of succeeded in
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10.03.2021 , in ((COVID-19 + Early Career Academics, Experiences))
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Petra Sidler and Mia Gandenberger
There are two kinds of uncertainties we as researchers are faced with: There are those things we are aware of that we do not know, but also those we are unaware of that we do not know. Dealing with this range of uncertainties can be demanding in ‘normal’ times and
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17.02.2021 , in ((COVID-19 + Early Career Academics, Experiences))
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Kerstin Martel, Acil Abdul Hadi and Monique Raupp
What happens when you are researching a topic that is suddenly suspended and prone to alter fundamentally in the future? How are the early career prospects of mobility researchers and their sense of purpose when getting “stuck” and isolated in an unfamiliar place? While the “new normal” and its implications
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