Researchers

Veronika Apostolovski is a researcher at the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Graz (ETC). She is also a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Medical University of Graz. She previously was a project researcher at the Institute of International Law and International Relations of the Karl Franzens University Graz. She participated in the EIUC’s European Master Programme on Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice. Her main research fields are international human rights, especially the ECHR, human rights and EU and the area of equal treatment and anti-discrimination, especially multiple and intersectional discrimination.

Zsuzsa has earned her doctorate from Pecs University, Hungary in 2010. She has worked in various EU funded research projects at the CEU, Center for Policy Studies for the last five years, at CEU such as ‘ASSESS’ project on monitoring the integration of third country nationals; ‘IR-Multiling’ project on multilingualism at workplaces and in industrial relations. She has also worked on a research project targeting Youth Unemployment (NEET) in Hungary commissioned by Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CC HBC). She has participated in different migration related research projects such as the FP7 funded project ‘ENACT’- Enacting citizenship, focusing on citizenship acts of third country nationals, or the project of the Hungarian Ethnographic Museum on Objects of Mobility/ Mobile Objects. She is currently working on a pilot research studying circular migration and its impacts on families, and most particularly on children in Hungary, and is also involved in the project ‘Bridge to Business’, linking young highly-educated Roma with the business sector, by conducting the impact assessment of this targeted employment program. Zsuzsa taught at CEU Roma Graduate Preparatory Program, at Olive-Up program (Sociology and Social Anthropology), and is a returning faculty at the Heritage studies program, teaching a course on cultural heritage and mobility. Zsuzsa is also a research fellow at the Sociology Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Ayse BUGRA is professor of Political Economy and Social Policy at Bogazici University (Istanbul) and the founder of the university research center Social Policy Forum. She received her PhD in Economics from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Her research interests in relation with this project lie in comparative social policy, inequality, poverty, and different foundations of social solidarity

Sybe A. DE VRIES is Professor of EU Single Market Law and Fundamental Rights and the Jean Monnet Chair at the Europa Institute of Utrecht University. His research interests specifically focus on the interaction between the EU free movement law and fundamental rights, including civil and social rights of EU citizens, which are laid down in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. He has been the coordinator of a large scale FP7 project on EU citizenship (bEUcitizen), wherein various questions related to barriers to the exercise of rights of EU citizens and theories of citizenship have been studied.

Susan is a DPhil Candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford. Her thesis compares claims to autonomy of ethnic Hungarian minorities in Romania and Slovakia. She previously worked for the UN’s International Labour Organisation in Geneva and Budapest focusing on youth employment and labour market integration. Her research interests include minority rights, institutional solutions for ethnic diversity, post-communism and qualitative research methods. She also teaches NVivo for the University. Susan holds an MPhil in European Politics from Oxford, as well as a BA(Hons) in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Marie-Pierre GRANGER is Associate Professor, affiliated with the School of Public Policy, and the Departments of International Relations and Legal Studies of Central European University (Budapest). She received a PhD in Law from the University of Exeter (UK). She teaches postgraduate courses on Law and Public Policy, EU law, Justice and European integration at postgraduate level. Her research interests lie in EU law, citizenship, human rights, access to justice, judicial reform, and comparative public law.

Claudia Hartman is a PhD student at the department of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on ethical dilemmas in the daily lives of migrant care workers and their networks and aims to cast a critical light on the concept of care chains. Her current research interests include ethics of care, disability studies, body work, and notions of inequality across translocal spaces.

Ulaş Karan holds an LLM degree in human rights law and a PhD degree in public law. Since 2005, he has been working for the Human Rights Law Research Center and Faculty of Law of Istanbul Bilgi University as lecturer, project coordinator and researcher. Currently he is working as an assistant professor for Faculty of Law. His is mainly dealing with constitutional law, international human rights law and clinical legal education. He has been involved in the work of many human rights NGOs in Turkey, as a member, consultant, expert or trainer and has publications in various fields of constituitional law and human rights

Trudie KNIJN is Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the UU, and visiting professor of the university of Johannesburg, South Africa. She participated as PI and member of the executive board in the FP6 Network of Excellence Reconciliation of Work and Welfare (RECWOWE) and also as PI and member of the executive board of the FP7 research program bEUcitizen (2013 -2017). From 2015 on she participates as PI in the Horizon2020 research program SOLIDUS. Her research fields are comparative gender, family and child policy and practices, the evaluation of interventions in the context of welfare reforms, social and civil citizenship rights, and solidarity in a changing Europe.

Bruno Sena Martins is Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. He is currently Vice-President of CES Scientific Board, Co-coordinator of the Doctoral Programme "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies", and Co-coordinator of the educational outreach activity “Ces Goes to School”. Between 2013 and 2016, he was Co-coordinator of the research group “Democracy, Citizenship and Law Research Group (DECIDe)” In 2007 he was Research Fellow at the Centre for Disability Studies (CDS), School of Sociology and Social Policy. His research interests are: body; disability; human rights; and colonialism.

Maria Paula MENESES is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. She holds a PhD in Anthropology by Rutgers University (USA). Her research focuses postcolonial debates on legal pluralism, identity policies, and on the role of the law in contemporary political struggles of belonging.

Siniša Pejić started his work as a research associate at the ETC in May 2016. He graduated in law at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz and is currently composing his doctoral dissertation on ‘Disaster-induced displacement: The protection of disaster-affected people in international law’ in Graz. At the ETC, he is mainly active in research projects for the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA; including topics ranging from equality and non-discrimination to analyzing case law in order to assess the overall relevance of the Fundamental Rights Charter in the national legal system, etc.) as well as for projects related to the prohibition of torture. Before working at the ETC, Siniša completed the court internship at the Court of Appeals Graz. His research interests lies in the field of prohibition of torture, migration/refugee law as well as topics related to the area of the Western Balkans.

Simon RIPPON is Associate Professor, affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and with the School of Public Policy at Central European University (CEU), Budapest. His research focuses on moral and political philosophy, and epistemology. At CEU he has taught policy ethics, applied ethics, history of moral philosophy, metaethics and the ethics of government propaganda. He received his doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University, and was previously a postdoctoral fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

Duygun Ruben received his bachelor degree from Marmara University Political Science and International Relations (English) department in 2015. Currently he is a master student in Boğaziçi University Atatürk Institute of Modern Turkish History. He worked as a part time student-assistant in Marmara University International Relations Research Center between 2013 and 2014 and as an intern in International Relations Council (UİK) between 2014 and 2015. Since 2016, he works as a researcher in Boğaziçi University Social Policy Forum. His main research interests are political economy, social policy and urban studies.

Orsolya Salát has a law degree from ELTE University Budapest. She also holds a Diplôme en droit français et européen from the Université Paris II-Panthéon Assas, an LL.M from the Universität Heidelberg, and another LL.M in comparative constitutional law from the Central European University (CEU Budapest). Her doctoral dissertation in comparative constitutional law (CEU, 2012) received a best dissertation award. She has taught at ELTE University Faculty for Social Sciences, Department for European Studies. She was a research fellow for the bEUcitizen project on barriers to European citizenship, and a junior research fellow at the Legal Institute of the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She was visiting researcher at the Yale Law School, and at the universities of Heidelberg, Paris-I, and Zürich. Her book, The Right to Freedom of Assembly: A Comparative Study was published in 2015 by Hart.

Simla Serim received her BA from Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology and a minor degree from the Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning. She studied in Duisburg Essen University during the fall semester of 2014-2015 as an Erasmus Exchange student. She participated in the certain projects of International Labour Organization, and she did internship in an agency engaged in social projects and Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations. Now, she is a Master student in Boğaziçi University Social Policy department and her research interests are inequalities and social exclusion, gender studies and policies with regard to disadvantaged groups.

Tom Theuns started as post-doctoral researcher in work packages 2 and 3 in February 2018. Prior to this, Tom worked as lecturer and tutor in Politics, Philosophy and Law at the University of Amsterdam's PPLE College. In the summer of 2017 he worked as research fellow for the EUROGLOB strategic partnership between Sciences Po Paris and Princeton University. Tom defended his PhD in Political Theory at Sciences-Po in 2017. Before Paris, he read for an MPhil in Political Theory at Balliol College, University of Oxford; his BA is in Liberal arts and Sciences (cum laude) from University College Maastricht. Tom's doctoral thesis, 'The Legitimacy of EU Democracy Promotion in the Neighbourhood', articulates a normative theory of democracy promotion and examines the legitimacy of EU democracy promotion in Eastern Europe and North Africa using the tools of political philosophy. Current research projects investigate the democratic legitimacy of disenfranchisement and the proper boundaries of the demos, the tension between democratic ideals and EU free trade agreements, procedural accounts of the value and justification of democratic government and the legitimate scope of EU policies designed to protect and entrench democratic governent. Tom Theuns has taught undergraduate courses in Political Philosophy, Political Theory, IR, Legal Theory, Philosophy of Science and the History of Political Thought for Sciences Po's programmes in Paris and Reims, the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University. He has published several book chapters and reviews as well as peer-reviewed journal articles in the Journal of European Integration, the Journal of Contemporary European Research, the Australian Journal of Politics and History and the Journal of Comparative Law.

Alexandra Timmer is assistant professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM). She teaches human rights law and non-discrimination law. Her research focuses on equality and non-discrimination, human rights in the Council of Europe and the EU, and gender and law. In 2017 she was awarded a prestigious Veni grant by the Dutch Scientific Organization (NWO) for her research project entitled Gender Injustice: Historical Development and Contemporary Challenges in European Human Rights Law. In addition, she is acting specialist coordinator gender equality of the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination. She is also involved in the Horizon2020 ETHOS project, and she was work package leader in a large-scale international EU FP-7 funded project FRAME (2013-2017). In 2017 she won the G.J. Wiarda Prize.

Hanneke van Eijken is assistant professor in EU law. Her fields of expertise are migration, EU citizenship, European asylum law, fundamental rights in the European Union and free movement rights. In October 2014 she defended her PhD thesis '"European citizenship and the constitutionalisation of the European Union" (Europa Law Publishing). In her thesis she analysed the role of EU citizenship in the process of the constitutionalisation of the European Union, under the supervision of Professor and judge of the CJEU Sacha Prechal. During her research she made several research visits to the Court of Justice in Luxembourg and stayed at the European University Institute in Florence as a visiting researcher. During the Dutch Presidency of the European Union (January-July 2016) Hanneke worked as legal advisor EU law at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2013-2017 Hanneke was involved in a multidiscplinary research project BEUCitizen, in which she conducted research on civil rights and EU citizenship. Moreover, from September 2008 to September 2013 Hanneke was assistant coordinator for the European Commission’s Network of Legal Experts in the Field of Gender Equality. Earlier she worked at Pels Rijcken & Droogleever Fortuijn as a support lawyer in the European law division. Hanneke, moreover, worked in the field of family law at a Dutch law firm and was a trainnee at a law firm in Curacao. Hanneke taught courses on International and European law, in the Netherlands as well as in Istanbul and Zagreb. Hanneke is part of the editorial board of the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht and is a board member of the Dutch Association for Migration Research

Trained in Cultural Studies, and with a Master's in Social Research Methods, Olivia went on to do a PhD in Anthropology at Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. Olivia's doctoral research focused on Romanian migrants' trajectories into London's precarious service sector. Drawing on over a year of multi-sited observation, her work unpacks the practices and moralities through which Romanian migrants navigate the neoliberal erosion of social security. Their experience with the dispossession engendered by postsocialism at home, which relegated much of the Romanian rural space to subsistence farming, and their encounters with the precarity inherent in the gig economy abroad. Since 2015 Olivia has also been a co-founder and chair of trustees of the Work Rights Centre, a London based charity dedicated to ending precarious employment. Her interests continue to combine an academic inquiry into migration, disposession, and tactics of survival, with an element of advocacy and third sector work.

Volkan Yilmaz is an Assistant Professor of Social Policy and the Director of Social Policy Forum Research Centre at Bogazici University, Istanbul. Yilmaz took his BA degrees in Political Science & International Relations and Sociology from Bogazici University, MA degree in Modern Turkish History from Bogazici University, and PhD degree in Politics from the University of Leeds. His latest book, The Politics of Health Care Reform in Turkey, has been published in 2017. Yilmaz’s academic interests include the politics of social policy reforms; health care policies; immigration, humanitarian assistance and social policies; disadvantaged groups (mental health users, people with disabilities, LGBT+) and social policies.