Conferences

BIRMM Research Day

Practical information

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 10:00-12:00
This event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

The Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM) of VUB, the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) of Ghent University and the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) of the University of Antwerp invite you to their Research Day. During this joint Research Day, you can get to know what BIRMM, CESSMIR and CEMIS's counterpart research centres around Flanders are doing and their ongoing research projects. 

Participants will have the chance to meet & greet researchers working on similar thematic focuses and discuss new ideas to cooperate together.

The full programme will be announced on May 18th.

To register, please click here

Programme:

 

10.00 Welcome + presentation of the research centres/networks:

  • CESSMIR by coordinator dr. Floor Verhaeghe
  • BIRMM by coordinator dr. Hannah Vermaut
  • CeMIS by coordinator dr. Lore Van Praag

10.45 Networking moment in break out rooms

11.20 Break

11.25 Discussion in break out rooms on how to engage and reach out to civil society/non-academic audiences

  • Co-creative and participatory research methods
  • Education and training
  • Policy influencing

11.50 Closing discussion on synergies and future directions