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My career as a researcher and university professor has been marked by interdisciplinarity, an approach by which I bet to analyze the complex and hybrid sociocultural reality in which we currently live the social sciences. Birth of an initial and postgraduate training in Social and Cultural Anthropology, closely linked to social intervention. My postgraduate training was taught by teachers from the Department of Social Anthropology and Social Work of the University of Granada. After participating as a fellow in various research projects on the reality of the migrant population in schools in Andalusia, I was able to obtain a predoctoral training grant from the Department of Social Work and Social Services of the Pablo de Olavide University, Seville (Spain) . My doctoral thesis focused on a comparison of public policies and intercultural practices in Spain and Mexico from two schools as case studies. Most of the publications, as well as the participation in congresses address this issue, receiving my doctoral research the prize of the Intercultural Chair City of Córdoba in 2013.
This commitment to interdisciplinarity leads me to participate in different networks and associations where, as in the rest of my career, my political commitment to my research interests such as: attention to minority groups; the field of migrations; a gender and human rights approach and the application of all this to social intervention and action.

Georgios A. Antonopoulos is professor of criminology at Teesside University. He has conducted research for the local authorities in Britain, the British Police, the British Ministry of Justice and the European Commission. He has published widely in the areas of illegal markets (human smuggling, human trafficking, counterfeiting etc.) as well as ethnicity, crime and justice, and in a range of international peer-reviewed journals including the European Journal of Criminology, the British Journal of Criminology, Crime, Law & Social Change, Trends in Organised Crime, the European Journal on Criminal Policy & Research, the Journal of Consumer Culture, and the International Criminal Justice Review.

He is an associate of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, series editor of Routledge Studies in Organised Crime, editor-in-chief of the journal Trends in Organised Crime, and member of the editorial boards of the journals Global Crime, International Journal of Cyber-Criminology, Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of Money Laundering Control, Journal of Applied Security Research, International Criminology, and the British Journal of Criminology. He has acted as consultant to RAND Europe, HM Revenue and Customs, the Cabinet Office, the US Department of Commerce and other government bodies and agencies, as well as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

I am a final-year PhD candidate in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I am also a scholar of the ESCR North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) and a member of the Statistical Modelling research group at the Cathie Marsh Institute (CMI). I am interested in modelling and forecasting demographic events, particularly, migration. I have an interest in Bayesian statistics, integrating different data sources and hierarchical modelling.

Hanne Apers (female) is a PhD-candidate at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS, University of Antwerp). She obtained a Bachelor in Psychology at University of Ghent (2009), a Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven (2011), as well as a Master of Science in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology at Brunel University, London (2012).

After working as a social counselor in the non-profit sector in Brussels (Lhiving vzw), she has gained research experience at the Institute of Tropical Medicine from 2016 to 2019, where she has done research on HIV-prevention in the European HERMETIC-project, and the Flemish HIV-SAM project.

From January 2019, she has been engaged at CeMIS in the H2020 MICADO project on newcomer integration across Europe, developing and applying co-creative research methods to facilitate migrant integration through the development of a digital tool.

Currently, she is conducting PhD-research focusing on the intersection of migration and mental health among recent newcomers with a sub-Saharan African background, living in Belgium, and is a guest lecturer on the topic of migration and health in the bachelor course ‘Interdisciplinary perspectives on migration and integration’, as well as in the bachelor course ‘Doctor and Society’ at the faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.