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• ​Medewerkers​
• ​Vrijwillig medewerkers​

Woldegebriel Dagne Admasu
Research cluster: Global mobility and migration research
Research topics: Urban refugees; Refugees’ Right to work; Refugees’ livelihood; Refugee integration; Ethiopia

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Sarah Anschütz​
Research cluster: Global mobility and migration research
Research topics: Transnational migration and mobility; Migrant youth; Digital media; Social networks; West-Africa; Ethnography; Creative methods

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Milena Belloni​
Research cluster: Social Work and welfare studies, Global mobility and migration research
Research topics: Refugeeand asylum seekers; Family reunification policies; Street level bureaucracy; Horn of Africa; Migration; Civic stratification

dr. Anne Bergmans 
Research cluster: Science and Society; Urban and Environmental studies
search topics: Environmental sociology; Sociology of safety and risk; Science and technology studies; Risk governance; Societal resilience; Sustainability; Radioactive waste management; Emergency planning 

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Anton Blanck​
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​Geert Boogaerts​

Didier Boost​
​Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies
​Research topics: Social Work; Realist Evaluation; Cricital Realism; Evidence-based practice; Organizational Integration​

​​Johan Boxstaens​
​Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies
​Research topics: Social work; Criminal justice; Community supervision; Theory of social work; Social work methods​

Tori Ceusters​
Research cluster: Science and society
Research topics: Holistic safety; Uncertainty; Security risk management; Organisational resilience; Robust thinking

Kaja Chmielweska​
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​Jill Coene​
​Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies
​​Research topics: Poverty; Social Policy; Energy Poverty​

​Dries Coertjens​
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
​Research topics: Environment; Risk Perception; Risk Communication; Participation; Environmental governance​

​​dr. Pieter Cools​
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Social Work and welfare studies; Science and society
​​Research topics: Need politics; Social innovation; Participation; Welfare reform; Organizational hybridity​

dr. Ann Crabbé​
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Science and society
Research topics: Envronmental policy sciences; Policy arrangements; Policy evaluation; Multi-actor governance; Water policy; Participation; Knowledge arrangements

​Hanne Dallenes​
Research cluster: Urban and environmental Studies
Research topics: Environmental sociology; Climate change; Energy security; Sustainability transitions; Environmental concerns

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Petra De Braal 
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Social work and welfare studies
Research topics: Ethics of care; Social innovation; Privileged irresponsibility; Participation; Solidarity; Decentralisation​​

​Tina De Jaeger
Research cluster: Social Work and Welfare Studies
Research topics: Poverty; Social Network Theory; Social support ; Mixed Methods ; Agency

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​Anke De Malsche​
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Ine De Parade​
Research topics: Multispecies studies; Human-Animal Studies; Science and Technology Studies; Scientometrics
Research cluster: Science and Society; Urban and Environmental Studies

​Koen Desmet​

​Silke de Troyer​
Research cluster: Social Work and welfare studies
Research topics: Social Work; Solidarity; Religion; Welfare State Institutions; Faith-based organisations; Welfare Stte; Inequality

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Lien Dieleman
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Tap water; Value of water; Price perception; Sustainable consumption; Theories of practice​

Kristel Driessens​

​​Benoït El-Achkar​
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Science and Society
​​Research topics: Environmental sociology; Science and Technology Studies; Sustainability transitions; Urban Sociology; Public sociology; Political ecology​

Cory Fletcher​
Research cluster: Urban & Environmental Studies; Science and Society
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​​Robbe Geerts​
​Research cluster:  Urban and Environmental Studies; Science and society
​​Research topics: Environmental sociology; Social class; Sustainability; Risk perception; Sociology of science and knowledge; Water consumption and production​

​Dirk Holemans
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
​​Research topics: Commons; Political Economy; Political and Social Sciences; Political Ecology; Transition theory​

​Amalia Innocenti​
Research cluster: Global Mobility and Migration Research
Research topics: Migration; Death; Mediterranean sea

​Eef Jonkers​
Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies; Urban and Environmental studies
Research topics: Nonprofit organizations; Mobilization strategies; Voter intention; Political efficacy; Political inequality

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Jasmine Keersmaekers​
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Minseong Kim​
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​Imane Kostet​
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Global mobility and migration research
​​Research topics: Identity studies; Diversity; Educational inequality; Culture and stratification; Sociology of childhood; Cultural sociology​

​​Fatima Laoukili​
​Research cluster: Urban and Evironmental Studies; Social work and welfare studies
​​Research topics: Urban sociology; Diversity; Migrants; Civil Society; Social work; Social changes​

​​Prof. dr. Ilse Loots​
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Science and society
​​Research topics: Environmental policy sciences; Interdisciplinary environmental sciences; Risk Communication and governance; Knowledge arrangements; Environmental health; Science-policy interface; Stakeholder mapping​

Prof. dr. Pieter Maeseele (geassocieerd lid)
​Research cluster: Science and society
​​Research topics: Media Sociology; Democratic theory; Journalism; Science and Environmental communication; Discourse analysis​

​Reda Mahajar​
Research Cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Science and Society
Research topics: Social Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Nationalism Studies; Research Methodologies ; Poststructuralism; Migration

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​Fleur Marchand​

Amal Miri​
Research cluster: Science and society; Social work and welfare studies, Global mobility and migration research
Research topics: Gender and diversity; (Family) migration; Participatory research; Intersectionality; Integration policies; Migrant motherhood 

Athina Moroglou​
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​​Prof. dr. Stijn Oosterlynck​
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Social work and welfare studies
​Research topics: Urban sociology; Diversity; Poverty; Social Innovation; Community development​

Loubna Ou-Salah​
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​Giovanni Penna​
Research cluster: Global mobility and migration research
Research topics: Migration ; Visa policy; Visa outsourcing; Border externalisation; Ethnography; Refugee families

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​​Prof. dr. Peter Raeymaeckers​
​Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies
​Research topics: Social work; Governance; Public-nonprofit collaborations; evaluation studies​

Lena Richter​
Research cluster: Global mobility and migration research
Research topics: Nonreligion; Mobility; Morocco; Intersectionality; Asylum

Hannah Robinson​
Research cluster: Urban and environmental Studies
Research topics: Urban studies; Poverty; Environment; Health and wellbeing; Migration

​Prof. dr. Mieke Schrooten​
Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies; Global mobility and migration research
​Research topics: (trans)migration, informal social work practices, transnational social work, hidden homelessness​

Ona Schyvens​
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Integration policy; Local governance; Urban sociology; Political participation; Migration

​Leen Sebrechts​

Rune Sterckx​
Research cluster: Urban and environmental studies
Research topics: Climate justice; Sustainability; Climate policies; Sociological and environmental justice

​Yoni Strijbol​
Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies; Science and society
Research topics: Peer support; Prisons; Transition (from prison to community); Reintegration; Realist research

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​Lisa Suckert​
Research cluster: Science and Society; Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Economic Sociology; Climate Change; Imagined futures; Crisis; Discourse; Social Theory; Time and Temporality; Uncertainty

​Mantoe Sylla​
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​Yannis Tzaninis​
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Urban Political Ecology; Social geography; Extended Urbanization; Climate change; More-than-human epistemologies

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Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies; Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Poverty; Diversity; Social work; Capabilities; Migrant organizations; Networks; Urban sociology

​Martha Van den Bergh​
Research cluster: Social Work and Welfare Studies
Research topics: Social Networks; Paid staff; Volunteers; Nonprofit organizations

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​Ewoud Vandepitte​
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Science and society
​​Research topics: Environmental justice; Climate change; Public sociology; Social movements; Ethnography; Symbolic interactionism; Sociology of knowledge; Sociology of emotions​

​​Prof. dr. Frédéric Vandermoere​
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies; Science and society
​Research topics: Environmental sociology; Sustainability transitions; Science and technology studies; Public sociology; Risk and uncertainty; Sustainable consumption; Environmental activism​

​​Bregje Van Deun​
​Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
​​Research topics: Cultural Sociology; Sociological Theory​

​Lore Van Praag
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Migration; Environmental sociology; Climate; Religion; Gender; Education 

​Kyra Verbruggen​
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental studies
Research topics: Sustainable development; Participation; Ideology; Justice; Systems

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Louise Vercruysse​
Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies; Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Cooperative networks; Multifunctional landscapes; Food systems; Biodiversity Conservation; Governance

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​Dries Ver Elst
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Linus Vermeulen
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Global Political Cities; Social Imaginaries; Public Policy Advice; Truth Spots; Policy Advisory Complexes

​Prof. dr. Gert Verschraegen​
​Research cluster: Science and Society; Urban and Environmental studies
​Research topics: Cultural Sociology; Sociological Theory; Diversity and migration; Sociology of science and knowledge​

Eva Verschueren​
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Cultural sociology; Superdiversity; Identity studies

​Elina Volodchenko​
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental Studies
Research topics: Urban sociology; Environmental sociology; Community spaces; Sustainability; Intersectionality

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Louis Volont​
Research cluster: Urban and environmental studies
Research topics: Classical sociological theory; Architecture & aesthetics; Futures, time & temporality; The sociology of the sacred; Cultural commons

​Rozemarijn Weyers​
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Ebru Akgun
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​Joelle Badran​
Research cluster: Social Work and Welfare Studies
Research topics: Refugees & asylum; Solidarity; Recognition; Diversity; Childhood Studies; Social work

Imane Bendra​
Research cluster: Global Mobility and Migration Research
Research topics: Migration and stay aspirations; Life aspirations; Senegalese street traders; Morocco; Ethnography; Life history

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​Björn Carré​
Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies; Science and society
​Research topics: Civil society; Marketization; Advocacy; Nonprofit-business hybridity; Social Work

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​Eline De Jong​
Research cluster: Social Work and Welfare Studies; Science and society
Research topics: Solidarity; Diversity; Social enterprises; Intersectionality; Social transformation

Harm Deleu​
Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies; Urban and environmental studies
Reserach topics: Social work; Homelessness, Informal support; Non-profit organisations; Hidden homelessness​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ ​

​Dries Dingenen​

​Sarah Maes​
Research cluster: Social Work and Welfare Studies
Research topics: Social Work; Faith-based organisations; Solidarity; Religion; Welfare State Institutions

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Syeda Rizvi​
Research cluster: Urban and environmental Studies, Science and society, Global mobility and migration research
Research topics: Environment; Policy; Communications; Inclusion

​Elias Storms​

Karen Van Campenhout​

Peter Vervoort​
Research cluster: Urban and Environmental studies
Research topics: Interdisciplinary environmental sciences; Health and wellbeing; Urban green space; Socio-spatial studies; Spatial planning

​​Em. prof. dr. Jan Vranken​
Research cluster: Social work and welfare studies; Science and Society; Urban and Environmental Studies
Reserach topics: Poverty & exclusion; Social stratification; Welfare State; Urban Sociology; Diversity; Migration; Sociological Theory

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