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Announcements, talks and milestones, most recent first. For day-to-day updates, follow me on LinkedIn.
- Joint conference ‘Future of Migration to Europe’, 26–27 April, organised by HumMingBird, FUME and QuantMig. Details
- Our chapter in the IOM Global Data Institute and BD4M Practitioners’ Guide on Harnessing Data Innovation for Migration Policy is out and free to download. Download
- My episode of the Women in Big Data Brussels podcast, Data, humanitarian aid and migration, is online. Listen
- Elated to join the editorial board of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Nature).
- Call for papers: special issue ‘New methodological approaches for migration and mobility studies: From traditional to big data’, Frontiers in Human Dynamics.
- Talk: Mixed blessings: Big data and AI for migration, VAIA – Flanders AI Academy (online). PDF
- Book launch of Data Science for Migration and Mobility Studies at the Oxford Department of International Development. Event
- Migration Dialogue on gender and academic mobility with Thais França, 10 November (online).
- Honoured to join the Ethical Board of the AI Excellence Centre of the Flemish Employment Agency (VDAB), contributing to strategic discussions on the ethical use of AI for employment and training.
- Our project Measuring Irregular Migration and Related Policies (MIrreM) has been granted, with colleagues from 17 institutes.
- My first podcast, with Florian Trainer, as part of the BIRMM Migration Talks. Listen
- Calls for papers for two special issues on big data and AI for migration: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics and Social Sciences. Social Sciences
- My talk on computational social science and interdisciplinary empirical research on migration at the Bilkent CSS Summit is online. Recording
- Talking about AI and big data to study migration with Albert Ali Salah at FARI – AI for the Common Good Institute, 7 December 2021.
- My commentary Big data for whose sake? Governing migration through artificial intelligence is published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. Open access
- Lecture on big data for studying human migration at SICSS-Istanbul 2021. Schedule
- Visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology (March–August 2021), working on drivers of highly skilled migration from Turkey with Prof. Brendan Burchell.
- Our panel ‘How new is the new Europe: Perspectives on migration’ is accepted at the 27th International Conference of Europeanists, 21–25 June 2021.
- An article with my former PhD student Özgün Ünver, desk-rejected six times, is finally published. Article