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My research area focuses on anthropology of migration, in particular forced migration, gender studies and media studies. Area focus: Asia and Europe

Hien Thi Nguyen is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ECU Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University. Her current research focuses on four areas: migration and diversity; ageing across the life course; social frailty and wellbeing; and gender and development. Hien uses social science perspectives and methodologies to support creative and caring professions. This approach is targeted at the development of a social care research agenda for the aged care sector to facilitate collaborative communities of care that extend people’s support networks at every age, with a particular focus on: (i) Social and Cultural Care; (ii) Diverse and Migrant Communities; (iii) Music and Arts Engagement; and (iv) Digital Ageing and Inclusion.

Hien is a member of the TRACS Migration Research Network at ECU to support an active program of national and international collaborations. Hien is also the Project Manager of The Decentering Migration Knowledge (DEMIKNOW) Project, which brings together four research entities in Canada, India, China and Australia.

Huyen Nguyen is an interdisciplinary researcher with primary research interests in natural language processing, applied econometrics, and the economics of discrimination. Her research combines natural language processing tools, survey experiments, and micro-econometric techniques to understand differences in competitive speech behavior and how they translate into varying perceptions of credibility across social groups.

Assistant Professor in European and International Law at Utrecht University Law School, where I am also a Researcher within the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE).
My research combines expertise in the domains of European law, international human rights law and international refugee law, with particular attention to the development of the Common European Asylum System. I examine the EU institutional, law-making and enforcement dynamics in the context of asylum and migration and the relationship between the EU asylum legislation and the main international human rights legal instruments, including the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees and the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.

Sara Niedzwiecki is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research is on the process through which social policies are formed and implemented as well as on the territorial structure of government in Latin America. Niedzwiecki’s book, Uneven Social Policies: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America (2018, Cambridge University Press) explores the political factors that shape the implementation of social policies in decentralized countries. A second, co-authored book, Measuring Regional Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance (Oxford University Press, 2016), presents the Regional Authority Index for 80 OECD+, Asian, and Latin American countries from 1950 to 2010. During 2020-2021 academic year, Professor Niedzwiecki was a fellow at University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies where she worked on a new project on social policy and immigration in Latin America. This book project studies unequal access to social services and income between immigrants and nationals in Latin America. It describes how legal status and incorporation to the labor market affect immigrants’ access to social policies through an analysis of the main transfers and services in four Latin American countries—Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic. It combines original qualitative coding of legislation and policy documents and fieldwork. Niedzwiecki’s work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Regional and Federal Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, International Political Science Review, Saúde Coletiva (Brazil), and Revista de Ciencia Política (Chile).

Academic career

University of Luxembourg, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Luxembourg

Since 09/2013: Associate Professor of Political Geography

Saarland University, Department of Geography, Germany

06/2007-08/2013: Assistant professor for European Regional Studies (positively evaluated on 1st February, 2010)

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

10/2010: Guest lecturer

Petro Mohyla Black Sea University, Mykolajiv, Ukraine

09/2009: Guest lecturer

Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde e.V. (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography), Leipzig, Germany

04/2006 -05/2007: Postdoctorial research fellow
01/2006-03/2006: Research scholar

Institut für Ländliche Strukturforschung (Institute for Rural Development Research), J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Germany

06/2003 -09/2005: Research freelancer

Universität Helsinki in cooperation with Renvall Institute of German Studies in Helsinki, Finland

09/2003-10/2003: Guest lecturer

Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Department of Geography, Germany

10/2002-09/2007: adjunct teaching staff member
04-05/2003: Research assistant DFG collaborative research center 493 „Funktionen von Religion in antiken Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients“ (“Functions of religion in antique societies in the Middle East”)
04/2000-12/2002: Student and research assistant at Prof. Dr. Cay Lienau, working group on Geography of settlements and rural development

University education

05/2012: Habilitation thesis (Venia Legendi) in Geography on „Raumwirksame Aspekte der Nachhaltigkeit – Regionale Resilienz durch Sozialkapital im Zeichen von Globalisierung und Regionalisierung in Europa“ (“Aspects of spatial impact of sustainability – Regional resilience by social capital in the era of globalisation and regionalisation”) and a habilitation presentation on „Massentourismus an der bulgarischen Schwarzmeerküste“ (“Mass tourism at the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast”), Saarland University
2008-2010: „Rheinland-Pfalz-Zertifikat für Hochschuldidaktik“ (Rhineland-Palatinate certificate on university education) 08/2005: Dr. phil. (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cay Lienau; second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grabski-Kieron), Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster
01/2004- 07/2005: Scholar of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
2002 - 2005: Dissertation on „Die Rolle der Landwirtschaft im Konzept der Eigenständigen Regionalentwicklung - geographisch untersucht am Beispiel der Region „West“ Irlands “ („The role of agriculture in the concept of endogenous regional development – the example of the region „West“ in Ireland“)
08/2002: University degree (higher diploma, “Diplom”); Higher diploma thesis on „Landwirtschaft in der Region „West“ Irlands. Diversifizierung als Entwicklungsprozess und –strategie im ländlichen Raum“ („Agriculture in the region „West“ of Ireland. Diversification as a development process and strategy in a rural area”)
1997 - 2002: Study of Geography at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster and the Université de Rouen, France with the minor subjects of ethnology and political science