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Dr. Andrea Schmelz holds a professorship in International Social Work and Global Development at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts. After her studies in Political Science, Sociology and Modern History and her Ph.D. at Berlin Humboldt University, she has been working for more than two decades in politics and civil society engagement in the fields of migration, education and social issues as well as in international relations and international development cooperation.

Samuel David Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Political Science Department at the University of Lucerne. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of migration, citizenship, and democracy.

Doctoral Candidate at the University of Passau (Germany) in Cooperation with OTH Regensburg (Germany). Member of the Bavarian Joint Academic Partnership "Social Change" of the Bavarian Academic Forum (BayWISS).

Since 2019: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts. Research Interests: Discourses about integration and migration in different contexts and medial settings.

I am a migration researcher and humanitarian practitioner with over a decade of experience in generating and disseminating research, strengthening capacities, and monitoring and evaluating interventions in contexts of migration and displacement. As a PhD fellow at Maastricht University-UNU MERIT, I explore the im/mobility aspirations of young people in protracted displacement. My research interests are migration drivers; migration aspirations and decision-making; and migration policy and governance. I have extensively worked in the MENA region, and I speak five languages.

Hanne Schneider is a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the human geography department at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Her research interest include migration studies in Local and Rural contexts as well as European Migration Governace. Before joining the research team at TUC Hanne Schneider worked as a Research Associate at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) after she has gained experience in non-profit project management at Robert-Bosch-Foundation. She received her M.A. in International Migration from the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) in Osnabrück.

Senior Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Universität Osnabrück. He studied Anthropology, Musicology, Linguistics and Ethnic Studies at the universities of Hamburg and Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Universität Tübingen. After a two-year research stay at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro he became coordinator of a major European comparative research project at Universiteit van Amsterdam. His major recent publications include “Demographic ‘Megatrends’ and Their Implications” (in: Siirtolaisuus/Migration Journal 3/2018: 26-31); Erfolg nicht vorgesehen. Sozialer Aufstieg in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft – und was ihn so schwer macht (Münster: Waxmann 2018; with C. Lang and A. Pott); “Generation Mix – der Versuch einer Annäherung” (in: M.Hill/E. Yildiz (eds.): Postmigrantische Visionen, Bielefeld: transcript, 129-146); Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts. Critical Perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2016 (edited with Clea Schmidt); “Social Mobility, Habitus and Identity Formation in the Turkish-German Second Generation” (in: New Diversities, Vol. 16, No. 1/2014: 89-105; with Christine Lang); Super-diversity: A New Perspective on Integration, Amsterdam: VU University Press 2013 (with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); The European Second Generation Compared: Does the Integration Context Matter? Amsterdam University Press 2012 (edited with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); “Belonging” (in: M. Crul/J. Mollenkopf (eds.): The Changing Face of World Cities: Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States, New York: Russell Sage 2012, 206-32; with Mary Waters, Leo Chavez und Louis de Scipio).

Master's in Sociology at the University of Cologne, Germany, 2005 (minors: Psychology and Philosophy) with a thesis on anti-immigrant attitudes in Europe. DPhil at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2009 on the cross-nationally comparable measurement of educational attainment for comparative survey research. A number of recommendations developed in my doctoral thesis were subsequently implemented in the European Social Survey since round 5 (2010) and later also in other international surveys. Post-doctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College (2009-2011). In 2011 I moved back to Germany to start working at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim as scientific coordinator of the new GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology. From 2012 to 2015, I headed the training courses team at GESIS. From 2013 to 2017, I lead the project "Computer-Assisted Measurement and Coding of Educational Qualifications in Surveys (CAMCES)" funded through the Leibniz competition, and subsequently deepened this work within the SERISS project, resulting in the surveycodings.org service. In 2015 I moved to the department Survey Design and Methodology (SDM). Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Trinity Term 2015. From 2018 to 2024, I am heading the contribution by GESIS to the international PIAAC consortium for PIAAC Cycle 2 (data collection in 2022/23) focusing on the background questionnaire. From 2020 to 2023, I also lead a project aiming to improve the comparability of socio-demographic measures across German large-scale surveys in KonsortSWD.de, part of the new National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).