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Dr. Özge Bilgili is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Utrecht University. She has been awarded as a Thomas J. Alexander fellow at the Education and Skills Department of the OECD and is currently working as an associated researcher for the Strength through Diversity Project. Her expertise is on immigrant integration, social cohesion, transnationalism and education research and policy analysis in relevant areas. She has also worked extensively on migration and development issues, forced migration and return and reintegration research. Please see “Research Projects and Teaching” section for more information on her previous research experience.

Since 2016, Dr. Özge Bilgili is the chair of Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR) and highly involved in other academic networks. She is the co-coordinator of IMISCOE Standing Committee on Interactions of Migrant Integration and Transnationalism in Europe (IMITE) and an affiliated researcher of United Nations University – Merit. As an assistant professor at Utrecht University, she is also part of European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) and the Inter-university Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS).

Dr. Özge Bilgili is also regularly involved in commissioned research for country governments and international organizations (IOM, UNHCR, MPI, MPG, and SDC), participates in capacity building activities and presents research findings to practitioners, policy makers and academics.

Antoine Bilodeau is a full professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. He is the director of the Immigration Research Initiative (IRI) and a member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC), the Équipe de recherche sur l’immigration au Québec et ailleurs (ERIQA) and the Groupe de recherche sur les sociétés plurinationales (GRSP. His research interests focus on the political integration of immigrants and on the dynamics of openness to immigration and ethnocultural diversity in Quebec and elsewhere in the world. His research has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nations and Nationalism, the International Political Science Review, Publius, Democratization, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Politics and Religion and Territory, Politics and Governance. In recent years, A. Bilodeau has received a Concordia University Research Award (2016/2017) and the John McMenemy Prize twice (in 2020 and 2011) for the best paper published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

Graduated in "Foreign Languages and Literatures" and in "Primary Education Sciences" at the University of Bologna (Italy). School teacher specialized in the integration of disabled children, teacher trainer, author of articles published in academic journals. Main research areas: intercultural education, school inclusion, integration of migrant families with disabled children, anthropological and sociological approaches to disability.

Tuba Bircan completed her PhD in social and political sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven. Her major research interests are migration, diversity, inequalities, equal opportunities, social policy, evidence-based policymaking, inclusive education, mixed methods, Big Data and AI applications for migration research. She is currently the scientific coordinator of the Enhanced Migration Measures from a Multidimensional Perspective (HumMingBird), a research programme funded by European Commission Horizon 2020. She has served as an external expert and reviewer for several European funding institutes and as a reviewer for many international journals including International Migration, Habitat, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Sage Open, Equality, diversity and inclusion, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies.

I am a social worker, a teaching fellow and a postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University. I am involved in social work practice and research surrounding forced migration, cross-cultural practice and international social work.

Alex Bish is an independent researcher specialising on migration, conflict, and crime dynamics in West and North Africa. Over the past seven years, Alex has conducted in-depth fieldwork across West Africa and supervised field networks of key informants in both government and hard-to-reach groups, including rebels, militants, and smugglers. Alex is also an EPSRC PhD researcher in Security and Crime Science at UCL and a Visiting Scholar at Yale University. In addition to qualitative research, he is also trained in quantitative and complex systems research methods.