Project Coordinator

University of Antwerp - Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies - Belgium

The Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp was established in September 2005 as an interfaculty centre . The centre improves, facilitates and conducts national and international interdisciplinary fundamental and applied research. It develops and supports multidisciplinary academic education on migration, integration of ethnic minorities and multicultural societies. UA will be the coordinating partner of the present research project. CeMIS has built extensive experience in coordinating large scale research projects on educational issues such as BET YOU ‘School careers of immigrant children’ (funded by IWT Flanders) and on international migration such as EUMAGINE ‘Imagining Europe from the outside’ (funded by the EU FP7).

Relevant publications

Timmerman, C., Wets, J. (2011). Marriage Migration and the Labour Market, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 69 – 79

Stevens Peter A. J., Clycq N., Timmerman C. en van Houtte M. (2009),’ Researching race/ethnicity and educational inequality in the Netherlands: a critical review of the research literature between 1980 and 2008’, in: British educational research journal, pp. 1-39.

Timmerman C. (2008). ‘Marriage in a “Culture of Migration”. Emirdag Marrying into Flanders, in: European Review, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 585–594.

Clycq, Noel (2012). 'My daughter is a free woman, so she can't marry a Muslim': the gendering of ethno-religious boundaries’, European Journal of Womens Studies, to be published February 2012.

Clycq, Noel (2011). Muslims in Antwerp. At home in Europe. Open Society Foundations: London.

Clycq Noel (2009). Van keukentafel tot "God": Belgische, Italiaanse en Marokkaanse ouders over identiteit en opvoeding. Antwerpen: Garant.

Christiane Timmerman - Project Coordinator

Christiane Timmerman, director of CeMIS, has a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a master in Psychology (KULeuven). She has considerable research and field experience on Turkish and Mediterranean migration, education, ethnicity & culture, gender, health/well-being of migrants and has published extensively on these issues. She supervises a considerable number of PhD projects and is coordinator of several large scale projects (the ongoing FP7 EUMAGINE project; the BET YOU-project of IWT Flanders) and is member of the Board of Directors of the European ‘Network of Excellence’ IMISCOE.

christiane.timmerman@uantwerpen.be

Lore Van Praag - Project Manager

Lore Van Praag (PhD sociology) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She obtained a Master and PhD in Sociology at Ghent University. Her past research project focused on gendered community effects on mental health outcomes (Ghent University, Belgium). Currently, her research interests are interethnic relations in schools, processes of tracking, discrimination, educational achievement, social support, early school leaving, educational policies, primary and secondary education, grounded theory and ethnography. In her PhD, she focused on the success determinants of ethnic minority students in secondary education in Flanders, considering structural characteristics of educational systems and society, migration settlement of ethnic communities and interactions between students, teachers and significant others. In 2014, she taught the courses ‘Introduction in Sociology’ (Bachelor course) and ‘Sociology of Education’ (Master course). Between 2014 and 2015, she was the academic coordinator of a 4-year research project (Validiv) that focused on the valorization of the linguistic diversity in primary schools in Flanders from a multidisciplinary and mixed methods approach. Currently, she is the project manager and research coordinator of the RESL.eu project, that aims to reduce the number of Early School Leavers in Europe. She published international and national articles in peer-reviewed journals and books.

lore.vanpraag@uantwerpen.be

Noel Clycq - Senior Researcher

Noel CLYCQ, the coordinator of the theoretical work package and the qualitative team of RESL.eu, is a post-doctoral researcher and research coordinator at CeMIS. Until the end of 2012 he was the coordinator of a large-scale Strategic Basic Research on the educational trajectories of youth with and without an immigrant background in secondary education in Flanders (BET YOU-project) and he coordinated the Policy Research Centre on Integration. Next to this, he conducted and coordinated small-scale research on topics such as socialization processes, identity construction, educational trajectories and partner choice processes of majority and minority youth, and the local experiences of Muslims. He has published in the field of gender and ethnicity and on education issues, both in local and in international peer-reviewed journals such as British Educational Research Journal, The Sociological Review and the European Journal of Women’s Studies.

noel.clycq@uantwerpen.be

Ward Nouwen - PhD Researcher

Ward Nouwen attained a Masters degree in Sociology (KULeuven, 2008) and is since 2013 working as PhD candidate for the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) in the Resl.eu research project. Ward Nouwen was previously working as a research assistant in research on segregation in Flemish primary education (SinBa, FWO) and school careers of pupils with and without an immigrant background in Flemish secondary education (Oprit14, IWT).

ward.nouwen@uantwerpen.be

Rut Van Caudenberg - PhD Researcher

Rut Van Caudenberg has a Masters Degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (Leiden University) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Research (Goldsmiths - University of London). Prior to joining the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) she worked in the NGO-sector and with the United Nations on issues of migration, population and development, and minority and indigenous rights, both in Belgium and abroad. She joined CeMIS in 2014 and worked on research projects on the integration of vulnerable migrant groups in Belgium and on the engagement of diaspora organisations in development cooperation. In September 2015 she started working as a PhD candidate in the RESL.eu research project.

rut.vancaudenberg@uantwerpen.be

Mariana Orozco - PhD Researcher

Mariana Orozco has a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering (UTN, Argentina, 1999), a master’s degree in Instructional and Educational Sciences (UA, Belgium, 2016) and a master’s degree in Educational Research (UoP, UK, expected in 2017). Before joining the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) in 2017, she worked in the manufacturing industry and in adult education. Her research focuses particularly on (vocational) education, e.g. integration of formal/informal learning, and transfer of learning. As part of the CeMIS team, she collaborates with the ‘Dual Learning on Pilot’ and the ‘RESL.eu’ research projects. As a PhD candidate, she investigates the integration of theory and practice in dual learning environments.

Mariana.orozco@uantwerpen.be

Marianne Samson- Financial Manager

Administrative and Financial management.

Marianne.samson@uantwerpen.be