Assistant professor @demigkrems.bsky.social | formerly @giga-hamburg.de @aissr.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social | (im)mobility & displacement | diaspora | MENA & Europe
Lea Müller-Funk
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I am delighted to share a new version of our SYREALITY Handbook chapter about the quantitative data collection, which now includes a new sub-chapter about data cleaning. It’s open access. zenodo.org/records/1706...
📣 IMISCOE 2026 Annual Conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Zooming In: Micro-(im)mobilities and local adaptation strategies for communities at risk
Panel organisors: Jan Niklas Janoth & myself
Deadline: 20 September 2025
📣 Two more weeks to apply for this qualitative postdoc position within my projects RESTATE and SYREALITY! 📣
We ask:
❓ In which ways can micro-(im)mobilities serve as adaptation strategy for people at risk?
❓ How does social inequality shape processes of micro-(im)mobilities?
❓ How are life aspirations related to micro-(im)mobilities?
❓ How do micro-(im)mobilities contribute to community engagement and local action?
Please spread the word and send us your contributions!
The PhD position is based at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, Danube University Krems.
🔗 More details and application link (deadline: 30 September 2025):
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
📣 Vacancy for PhD position! 📣 I am looking for a qualitative PhD researcher (3 years, 30 hours/week) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement), starting preferably on 1 January 2026.
💬 I’m hosting an informal online info session about the position and the PhD programme at our department on 8 September 2025, from 10:30 to 12:30 CET, on Zoom.
🔗 Register here if you're interested: donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The position involves research on refugees’ political agency and changing perceptions of the state. The PhD researcher will focus on the Syrian case study with qualitative fieldwork in Syria (online), Istanbul, and Berlin. There is room to shape the PhD project in line with your own interests.
