19 December 2019

At our annual Christmas drink, the Faculty announced today that the Dutch Bachelor course Sociological Themes, coordinated together with Peter Achterberg, received the best course award for small (less than 50 students) Dutch Bachelor courses. Naturaly, we are very proud of this award, which certainly stimulates us to keep on taking education very seriously! But it was a pleasure to teach the course anyway :-)

19 December 2019

Today, I delivered a guest lecture on institutional perspectives on ISM in the course Migration, Mobilities and Sustainable Futures of Maggi Leung at Utrecht University. It was quite a challenge to do so in 20 minutes given the variety of possible angles, but a pleasant experience!

20 November 2019

Today, I delivered a guest lecture on lifestyle migration at the University of Nijmegen, in the migration course of Joris Schapendonk. As usual, a pleasure to participate in this course!

29 October 2019

Today I presented the preliminary results of our research project on internationalisation for all to practitioners at the Aurora conference. A highly inspiring meeting, as it allows to build a bridge from empirical insights to practice.

1 July 2019

I delivered another guest lecture on lifestyle migration at the University of Antwerp, in the framework of a Summerschool on Europe: Diversity and Migration

24 May 2019

Today I presented a draft version of a paper I wrote together with Kina Kipshidze on the gender gap in study abroad at the Mobility workshop at the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education. Our paper, which is based on the Dutch National Student Survey, tries to empirically explain why women are more likely to engage in ISM compared to men.

28 March 2018

My paper on ISM and the different meanings of Europe is now available in Acta Sociologica. In this paper, I investigate what students actually mean when they refer to ‘Europe’. The presented models reveal four latent dimensions, namely a ‘cultural’, ‘political’, ‘rights’ and ‘experiential’ dimension. Furthermore, the analyses suggest that exchange students are largely a self-selected group, being a priori more likely to identify with Europe and score higher on the four dimensions.

25-28 March 2019

I participated as a lecturer in the CHEI PhD seminar for the first time. These seminars are aimed towards current and prospective doctoral students at CHEI as well as doctoral students enrolled in other programmes with an interest in internationalisation of higher education, and provide an ideal opportunity to discuss internationalisation issues with practitioner-scholars. A highly inspiring stay, I already look forward to next year!

4 December 2018

Today I delivered a guest lecture in the course Migration, Mobilities & Sustainable Futures at Utrecht University, illustrating how quantitative methodologies can improve our understanding of migration and mobility dynamics.

15 November 2018

Today, I gave a guest lecture at Nijmegen University on lifestyle migration, focusing on theoretical perspectives as well as adaptations which make it possible to include international students in lifestyle migration research.

8 November 2018

Today, I gave a guest lecture in Montpellier whereby I confronted policy discourses on the value of international student mobility in labour markets with the latest empirical evidence, drawing particularly on the work of Fabian Kratz, Nicolai Netz, Knut Petzold and myself. The conference formed part of a COST-action on second language acquisition, and with this conference they aimed to broaden their perspective. A very nice initiative which provided fresh viewpoints!

10 July 2018

My new paper on the relationship between student mobility and European identity, based on small-scale panel data, is now available in innovation. Altogether, the findings of my study suggest the impact of European exchange programmes on European citizenship and a sense of European identity is relatively limited.

31 May 2018

Our special issue on new directions on studying policies of international student mobility and migration, edited together with Yvonne Riano and Parvati Raghuram, is now available in Globalisation, Societies, and Education. The different papers tackle an important yet under-researched aspect of ISM.

19 February 2019

Our paper on European movers' language use patterns, co-authored by Helga de Valk, has now been published in European Societies. The paper particularly reveals the social embeddedness of language choices made in bi-national families.

21 December 2017

My latest paper, co-authored with Erik Snel, Kenneth Hemmerechts and Christiane Timmerman, has now been published in Population, Space and Place. The paper - based on data from the EUMAGINE project - sheds light on migration aspirations of Ukrainians, one of the largest migrant groups in the EU.

21 December 2017

With the end of the year in sight, my position as editorial assistant of the European Journal Population also ends. Collaborating for three years with Helga de Valk (NIDI) and Nicole Hiekel (University of Cologne) in the editorial office and the associate editors on remote distance has been a real pleasure. Or: I learned editing an international journal can also be a lot of fun!

30 November 2017

Today I delivered a guest lecture at the Radboud University Nijmegen on Lifestyle Migration and International Student Mobility. It was inspiring to dive deeper into the literature on lifestyle migration again, particularly with regard on how to conceptualise lifestyle migration. This gives further thought for new project applications.

15 November 2017

Today, I participated in a videoconference on 'European integration through study abroad', organized in the framework of a series 'conversations on Europe' by the Center for European Studies, University of Pittsburgh. The conference brought together a nice set of scholars to debate this topic, namely Theresa Kuhn (University of Amsterdam), Florian Stoeckel (Exeter University) and Sabina von Dike (University of Pittsburgh). I really liked the format, as it allows connecting people based in different countries to share knowledge and opinions.

1 November 2017

Today, I started my new job as an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Tilburg. Besides further developing my research on international migration, I will teach the courses 'Sociological themes' and 'Global Migration'. Besides, I will coordinate the course 'Wicked Problems 202', which focuses - surprise surprise - on international migration as a wicked problem.

5-6 October 2017

Together with Yvonne Riaño and Parvati Raghuram, I organised a small two-day IMISCOE workshop at NIDI in the Hague. The overarching theme was ISM & Gender, and it was very informative and inspiring to bring this group of 18 scholars together to rethink the way we approach ISM.

29 September 2017

Today, I participated in a roundtable discussion on mobilities in Europe and the Mediterranean at the University of Aix-en-Marseille in the framework of the academic year opening of the Master in European Studies. The roundtable particularly questioned the Erasmus programme, and interestingly exchanged the viewpoints of previous participants, practitioners and researchers.

27 July 2017

I have been appointed recently as Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Starting 1 November 2017, I am very much looking forward to this new phase in my academic career!

29 June 2017

Today I presented a paper at the annual IMISCOE conference in Rotterdam, co-authored by Kim Caarls (NIDI), providing a gender-sensitive analysis of labour market outcomes of international student mobility. Our analysis is based on annual surveys of former higher education students in the Netherlands and suggests student mobility sustains gender inequalities in the labour market rather than correcting or increasing them.

29 June 2017

Together with Yvonne Riaño (University of Neuchâtel) and Parvati Raghuram (Open University), I organized two sessions on gendered perspectives on international student mobility at the Annual IMISCOE Conference in Rotterdam. The different contributions to our panel clearly showed that there are interesting – and understudied – gender dynamics are at play and indicate the need for further research into these dynamics

28 June 2017

Today I presented our paper ‘Exploring interrelations between welfare provisions and migration. The case of Spanish EU-movers’, co-authored with Katarzyna Andrejuk (CMR), Marie Godin (University of Oxford) and Sónia Pereira (University of Lisbon) at the Annual IMISCOE Conference in Rotterdam. Our paper focuses on the case of Spanish intra-EU migrants in the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the UK.

28 June 2017

I delivered a guest lecture for the IMISCOE PhD network about networking at academic conferences. Although I do not consider myself as a networker, it was an interesting exercise to share good practices with students. Overall, the response of students on my tips & tricks was quite positive, as the workshop was rated with a score of 18/20 by the participants (students had to indicate whether the workshop was helpful to them or not).

20 June 2017

Today, I delivered a lecture on the brain drain in relation to intra-European academic mobility, at the Goethe University Frankfurt. The audience were practitioners involved in the Euraxess network, and it was highly inspiring to discuss the 'dark side of academic mobility' with them. I sincerely hope we can do something together in the future to shed more light on this understudied subject!

3 June 2017

For the first time I completed a side project which is totally unrelated to everything else I did in the past. Nevertheless, it was highly exciting, as it helped to improve my understanding of rheumatoid arthritis, but also how different fields engage with science as well as different ways to handle data. Actually I learned quite a lot from working out this paper together with my wife, Ine Vos, the principal author of the paper (she is the real expert!).

11 May 2017

Today, I presented my past work on international student mobility as well as ideas for the future at a two-day international workshop at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies. The workshop brought together key scholars focusing on quantitative analyses of ISM, so a very nice and relevant initiative, as well as a stimulating environment! Thank you Eva Maria Vögtle, Nicolai Netz and Jeanette Ihnen for the organisation!

5 May 2017

Together with Basak Bilecen, I edited a Special issue on Academic Mobility and Inequalities, now available in the latest issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Together, the different contributions clearly highlight the challenges academic mobility brings along. Thanks to all authors for the nice collaboration!

27 February 2017

The IMISCOE network recently decided to fund our research cluster on international student mobility and migration for another year. This is great news, as it will allow to advance our understanding on ISM and gender, starting with two slots at the IMISCOE conference in Rotterdam (June 2017) and a closed workshop at NIDI (the Hague) in Fall 2017.

4 December 2016

My new paper 'Do employers value international study and internships? A comparative analysis of 31 countries' has now been published in Geoforum. The paper is based on the Flash Eurobarometer on graduate employability, and shows that overall only a minority of employers take international study experience into account when recruiting new employees.

29 October 2016

I published a new chapter titled 'European Mobile Students, (Trans)National Social Networks, and (Inter)National Career Perspective' in the new book of Micheline van Riemsdijk and Qingfang Wang 'Rethinking International Skilled Migration' (Routledge). Departing from a classical theoretical framework in migration studies on different forms of capital, I analyse the linkages between the acquisition of certain forms of capital through study abroad and students' career perspectives.

28 October 2016

Together with Petra de Jong and Helga de Valk, I published a new working paper 'Intra-European Migration Patterns & European Migrant Characteristics: a Statistical Portrait of the Dutch Context between 2003 and 2013'. This descriptive paper provides an overview of recent trends of EU migration towards the Netherlands.

13-14 October 2016

Together with Yvonne Riaño I organised an international workshop on 'International student mobility and migration: policy perspectives' at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Bringing together a group of 15 academics all interested in the topic, this two-day workshop stimulated a 'firework of ideas' (quote from Yvonne).

1 September 2016

Today, I chaired a session on residential choices of migrants at the European Population Conference in Mainz. In the session, several contributions from Europe and the US were presented on various aspects of residential choice, leading to fruitful discussions.

1 September 2016

For the first time in my career I presented a poster at an international conference. To be honest, it took me more time than expected to design the poster (which might also be related to my relatively limited Photoshop-skills), but it forces you to summarise your research in an easy way, and I was happy to have time to discuss my work in-depth with those who stopped in front of my poster.

28 August 2016

I co-authored a paper of Petra de Jong and Helga de Valk on welfare, migration and the life-course. In this paper, we focus on European migration to the Netherlands, and investigate whether differences in the composition of migration flows towards the Netherlands can be explained by differences between welfare regimes.

23 August 2016

Taylor & Francis made my paper on migration aspirations of European youth in times of crisis freely available until the end of 2016, given the relevance of the topic.

11 August 2016

Together with Sónia Pereira, I organised two sessions on welfare and migration at the 18th Nordic Migration Conference in Oslo, Norway. We received an impressive number of submissions for our sessions, and selected 8 really interesting papers. The sessions were well attended, and we learnt a lot from the fruitful discussions.

11 July 2016

My book 'Intra-European Student Mobility in International Higher Education Circuits' received the 2016 Best Book Award from RC31 (Sociology of Migration) of the International Sociological Association. As I unfortunately could not make it to the award ceremony at the ISA forum in Vienna, I am looking forward to the motivation of the jury, to be published in the Fall newsletter.

1 July 2016

Together with Marie Godin, I organised a session entitled 'A transnational approach towards welfare provision: Heading towards a better understanding of its role in shaping mobility patterns towards and across Europe', aiming to bring together researchers involved in two similar research projects: the Mobile Welfare project (www.mobilewelfare.org) and the Transwell project (https://transwel.org/). The session was well attended and was very helpful for getting to know what other people are working on.

30 June 2016

Together with Yvonne Riaño and Parvati Raghuram I organised a closed session and two open sessions on the policies on international student mobility. These sessions were organised in the framework of our IMISCOE-research cluster on the topic, and aimed to advance our current understanding of ISM-policy making. We brought together a number of scholars from different countries, within as well as outside Europe, focusing on different scale levels of policy-making. In October 2016 we will follow-up on the discussions in Neuchâtel during a closed workshop.

16 June 2016

I presented my work on employers' perspectives on study abroad at the workshop 'Migration and mobilities in an urbanising world’ at the University of Utrecht in a session organised by Maggie Leung and Mayke Kaag. The comments I received helped very well for finalising the draft paper.

9 June 2016

I presented for the first time my work on employers' perception on the value of international student mobility. My work was well received, and I got some interesting suggestions for exploring the topic further.

17 May 2016

My paper 'Improving web survey efficiency: the impact of an extra reminder and reminder content on web survey response' has now been published in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. The paper is based on a methodological experiment conducted at the University of Antwerp, and particularly reveals which ways should be avoided when trying to boost response rates.

10 May 2016

Today, I gave a lecture entitled 'Intra-European mobility and European identity: a match made in heaven or marriage of convencience' at the Centre d'étudies européennes (Sciences Po, Paris). Highly inspiring environment, and great to hear the opinion of well established researchers on my work.

2 May 2016

The paper 'Social embeddedness in a harmonized Europe: the social networks of European migrants with a native partner in Belgium and the Netherlands', which I wrote together with Suzana Koelet en Helga de Valk, has now been published in Global Networks. In this paper we investigate the social networks of intra-EU movers in Belgium and the Netherlands.

28 April 2016

Today, I gave the third lecture at the Free University Brussels for the course 'migration and the multicultural society', focusing on intra-European migration and international student migration.

18 April 2016

My paper 'Migration aspirations of European youth in times of crisis' has now been published in the Journal of Youth Studies. In this paper, I investigate which factors at the macro- and micro-level explain migration aspirations of European youth across Europe.

23 March 2016

Together with Erik Snel, Kenneth Hemmerechts and Christiane Timmerman, I wrote a paper on migration aspirations in different Ukrainian regions. This paper is now available as a working paper in the NIDI Working Paper Series.

19 March 2016

Today I gave a lecture at EP/Nuffic on the Erasmus programme. It was a great experience to present scientific insights to practitioners, as we often do not look at each others work. Bridging the gap proves to be highly inspiring!

29 February 2016

Today I gave guest lecture at St Andrews University, Scotland, on intra-EU student mobility. I had a wonderful day with plenty of discussions with researchers from the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, very inspiring!

26 February 2016

Today we got great news from the IMISCOE-office. Together with Yvonne Riaño, I applied for a research cluster on International Student Mobility and Migration, and our proposal was positively evaluated by the IMISCOE-board. As such, we will organise several activities on ISM this year.

25 February 2016

Today, I delivered my second lecture in the course 'Migration and the multicultural society' at the Free University Brussels. In this lecture, we focused on migration and migrants in Belgium.

25 February 2016

The research note I wrote together with Peter Ekamper on destination cities of Erasmus students has now been published in the Danish Journal of Geography.

18 February 2016

Today I delivered my first lecture in the course 'Migration and the Multicultural Society' at the Free University Brussels. In this lecture, I provided a general overview of the most important theories explaining international migration.

23 December 2015

Knack, a Belgian news magazine, publishes every year an annual overview around Christmas. As the number of Flemish Erasmus students skyrocketed last year, I was interviewed to frame these numbers into wider debates.

10 December 2015

My paper on relationship satisfaction of European bi-national couples, co-authored with Helga de Valk, has now been published in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations.

2 December 2015

Today, I gave a guest lecture at the Hague University on student mobility in Europe, focusing on trends and future perspectives.

30 November 2015

Together with Helga de Valk, I published a new working paper documenting patterns of horizontal and vertical transmission of languages within bi-national families. The analyses are based on the EUMARR-data from the Netherlands.

29 November 2015

Together with Peter Ekamper, I published a new working paper on destination cities of Erasmus students, based on full population data of Erasmus students in 2012-2013. To our knowledge, it is the first paper documenting the main destinations of European exchange students at a city level

25 November 2015

I was invited by Etienne Piguet and Yvonne Riaño to deliver a guest lecture at the University of Neuchâtel on trends and perspectives for European student mobility. It was a very useful exercise in order to take stock of what we know and to identify research gaps in ISM-research

2 November 2015

Together with Helga de Valk, I wrote a book chapter on migration and immigrants in Europe: a historic and demographic perspective. The chapter is now published in the new book of Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas and Rinus Penninx, Integration Processes and Policies in Europe. Scholar such as John Mollenkopf (City University of New York) describe the volume as "a succinct, comprehensive, and insightful summary of scholarship on the politics of immigrant reception and the complex interplay between receiving countries, sending countries, and the E.U., written by the foremost scholars in the field".

29 October 2015

I published a short research note on women's career in science in the Netherlands. Surprisingly, the participation of women in top scientific positions in the Netherlands is far below the level of other European countries. As such, much remains to be done in the Netherlands for ensuring gender equality in science.

28 September 2015

Our paper 'Involving Roma parents: analysing the good practice of a primary school in Ghent', co-authored with Joris Wauters, Noel Clycq, Joris Michielsen and Christiane Timmerman is now published in the British Journal of Sociology pf Education. The paper is based on extensive qualitative fieldwork with the Roma community in Ghent, Belgium.

22 September 2015

My paper 'Moroccan women in Madrid. Between change and contuinuity', an ethnographic study I conducted together with Kouider Djilali Beloufa in 2008 in the framework of my Masters thesis, is now published in Identities: Global studies in culture and power.

17 September 2015

I recently published a book chapter in a book on intra-European migration and mobility edited by Christiane Timmerman and colleagues. In the chapter I discuss the most important trends regarding student mobility on the European, Belgian, and Flemish level. The chapter is written in Dutch, but the maps might be of interest to non-Dutch speakers as well.

18 August 2015

Our paper 'European bi-national love relationships, European identity and transnational solidarity', published in European Union Politics, has been made freely available for a limited period of time through SAGE Insight, a forum selecting articles from all SAGE journals, putting 'spotlights on research providing fresh perspectives on major issues'.

9 July 2015

I presented my work in progress on what people mean when they refer to 'Europe', an effort to unpacking the content of European identity, at the Council of European Studies conference in Paris. I am happy to have received some useful feedback.

28 June 2015

I presented my work on popular destination cities of Erasmus students at the IMISCOE Annual Conference in Geneva. There were some relevant discussions with the audience, and they provided me with some good ideas how to proceed with the models I am building.

23 June 2015

Our paper, Falling in love with(in) Europe: European bi-national love relationships, European identification and transnational solidarity, co-authored by Helga de Valk and Leo van Wissen, is now published online in European Union Politics.

10 June 2015

Today, the Belgian newspapers De Morgen and Gazet van Antwerpen published a small article on the destination cities of Erasmus student mobility, based on my research note published in Demos earlier this month.

29 May 2015

I delivered a guest lecture on migration history and demographic perspectives on migration in Europe at a high school in Antwerp, Belgium. The idea behind the lecture was to familiarise students with different study fields of higher education, so they make an informed decision when graduating from high school. A very relevant and good initiative which I fully support.

27 May 2015

Together with Sanne Douma, I published a short research note on the spatial distribution of Erasmus students in Demos. In the research note (in Dutch), we contradict some common stereotypes and show that Erasmus students are mainly attracted by global cities.

21 May 2015

I delivered a guest lecture of one hour on migration and integration in Europe at the Liberal Centre Oostkamp. In the presentation, I intended to debug some common myths on international migration towards Europe, as well as on intra-European migration. I really enjoyed the discussions with the audience after my talk.

5 May 2015

Mark Holton (Plymouth University) wrote a positive review about my book. "In providing a distinction between degree mobility [...] and credit mobility [...], Van Mol skilfully unpicks Erasmus students from the umbrella of the international cohort, giving them a distinct identity which has not necessarily been portrayed in other studies."

30 April 2015

I gave a guest lecture at the Free University Brussels on intra-European mobility in the twenty-first century for the students of the course 'Migration and the multicultural society'. There were many questions and we had vivid discussions, which made the lecture a very enriching experience.

13 April 2015

I wrote a book chapter with Toni Morant i Ariño (Universitat de València) on the instrumental role that has been attributed to youth mobility for promoting a certain European imaginary. In our contribution, we try to connect historical and sociological insights.

27 March 2015

Together with Basak Bilecen, I organised an international conference on Transnational Academic Spaces at the University of Bielefeld. We were very happy with the high-quality presentations and intriguing discussions. More information on scientific communication will follow due course.

18 February 2015

I was invited to deliver a presentation at a brown bag seminar at NIDI. In the presentation, I retrospectively looked back to the projects on intra-EU mobility I have been involved in and I presented some ideas for the future.

15 January 2015

My book chapter Why do Students Move? An Analysis of Mobility Determinants Among Italian Students has been published in a new book titled The New Politics of Global Academic Mobility and Migration. The book is edited by Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki) and Regis Machart (Universiti Putra Malaysia) and published by Peter Lang.

8 January 2015

Recently I became the new editorial assistant of the European Journal of Population. I am looking forward working together with the Editorial Team for the next two years.

14 December 2014

My new working paper "Coping with survey fatigue. The impact of late reminders on web survey response" is now available online.

11 December 2014

I presented our paper Relationship satisfaction of European binational couples in the Netherlands, co-authored by Helga de Valk, at the Dutch Demography Day in Utrecht.

27 November 2014

Our new working paper Relationship satisfaction of European binational couples in the Netherlands, co-authored by Helga de Valk, is now available online. Any comments/suggestions/remarks are welcome!

6 November 2014

I delivered a guest lecture at the Free University Brussels, titled 'Migration towards and within Europe, 1950-2014'. This lecture is part of a series called 'European population issues'.

30 October 2014

Our new working paper Social embeddedness in a harmonized Europe: The social networks of European migrants with a native partner in Belgium and the Netherlands, co-authored with Suzana Koelet and Helga de Valk, is now available.

15 October 2014

Our new working paper Falling in love with(in) Europe. An investigation into the link between European bi-national love relationships, European identification and transnational solidarity, co-authored with Helga de Valk and Leo van Wissen, is now available.

29 August 2014

I presented two co-authored papers at the IMISCOE conference on social embeddedness of European migrants and Ukrainian migration to the European Union, and chaired a session on migrant families and intermarriage.

25 August 2014

The co-authored paper with Suzana Koelet and Helga de Valk Social embeddedness in a harmonized Europe: the social networks of European migrants with a native partner in Belgium and the Netherlands was nominated for the Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award at the 11th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Madrid.

22 August 2014

My new book has now been published by Palgrave Macmillan.

5 July 2014

My latest article, Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Analysis of the Determinants of Intra-European Student Mobility, written with Christiane Timmerman (University of Antwerp), is now included in the new issue of Population, Space and Place.

26 June 2014

I chaired a session on Social networks among new immigrants and the foreign born at the European Population Conference in Budapest.

3 April 2014

I was invited by Jean-Michel Lafleur (University of Liège) to deliver a guest lecture on student mobility at the Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations.

24 March 2014

Today, I gave a guest lecture at the University of Antwerp on the Anthropology of Europe. In this 3-hour lecture for students in the Social Sciences, I gave an historical overview of the development of the anthropology of Europe, as well as anthropological research that focused on the concept of European identity.

20 March 2013

I gave a guest lecture on intra-European migration and mobility in Brussels. In this lecture, I focused on the main theories explaining international migration, with an application to intra-European migration patterns.

1 February 2014

Today I started as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Hague. At NIDI, I will work on the EUMARR-project, analysing union formation within the European Union.

2 February 2014

The book chapter Conducting qualitative research: Dancing a tango between insider- and outsiderness, which I wrote together with Rilke Mahieu, Helene Marie-Lou de Clerck, Edith Piqueray, Joris Wauters, François Levrau, Els Vanderwaeren and Joris Michielsen (all University of Antwerp) is now published by Ashgate in a volume edited by Lejla Voloder (University of South Australia) and Liudmila Kirpitchenko (Deakin University).

21 January 2014

The paper I co-authord with Joris Michielsen (University of Antwerp) on the reconstruction of Erasmus students' social network is now published online in Mobilities.

17 January 2014

I published a new book chapter Erasmus student mobility as a gateway to the international labour market in the volume Globalisierung, Bildung und grenzüberschreitende Mobilität, edited by Jürgen Gerhards, Silke Hans and Sören Carlson, and published by Springer.

13 December 2013

Today I presented a paper titled 'Intra-European student mobility. General overview and tendencies' at the CeMIS-conference in Antwerp.

14 September 2013

Together with Antonio Morant i Ariño (University of Münster), we presented a joint paper La movilidad internacional de estudiantes en los siglos XX y XXI, transgressing two historical periods and scientific disciplines.

26 June 2013

Today I presented a chapter of my PhD on the relationship between student mobility and European identity at the Council of European Studies-conference in Amsterdam.

18 June 2013

Today I successfully defended my PhD-thesis at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Russell King (University of Sussex), Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), Walter Nonneman (University of Antwerp), Walter Weyns (University of Antwerp) and Christiane Timmerman (University of Antwerp), formed the doctoral jury.

1 June 2013

The book by Benjamin Feyen and Ewa Krzaklewska "The ERASMUS Phenomenon - Symbol of a New European Generation?", is now published by Peter Lang. It includes a chapter that I wrote on the connection between Erasmus student mobility and European identity.

1 March 2013

My paper "Intra-European Student Mobility and European Identity: A Successful Marriage?" has been included in the latest issue of Popualtion, Space and Place.

6 February 2013

I was recently interviewed by Antwerp TeleVision after the publication of my research results on the influence of Erasmus student mobility on European identity in Belgian national newspapers.

21 January 2013

Several Belgian newspaper published an article on my research results into the link between Erasmus exchanges and the development of a sense of European identity.