Experts Database

Anniek Schlette is a PhD Candidate at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on dual ethnic identity, ascriptions of ethnic belonging and intergroup relations. She is part of the ICS graduate school and The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). She obtained her Bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University, and subsequently completed the 2-year Research Master in Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism (MERM, UU). From 2021 to 2022 she was a junior researcher at the Dutch Institute of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), where she conducted research on polarization and online communities.

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.

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).

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.