COMPAS Visiting Academics
The COMPAS Visiting Academic Programme encourages senior academics, practitioners and policy makers (typically those on a period of sabbatical or study leave from their organisation), as well as doctoral students and post doctoral scholars, to visit COMPAS and undertake a period of self directed research with the support of senior academics here at COMPAS who are specialists within the field of migration studies. Visit periods can last from one term through to one year, and applications are welcomed all year round. Applications to COMPAS are accepted on the basis of appropriateness to our key research themes.
We ask that anyone interested in applying contact a member of COMPAS staff with a brief description of your work, the reason for wanting to visit COMPAS and a request for them to act as your 'link-person'.
Once you have the support of a link-person, please complete an application form (see below for further information). The completed form will then be submitted to our senior committee for review and a final decision. A decision will normally be made and communicated within 3-4 weeks of receiving the application. All applications should be submitted at least two months in advance of a proposed visit and there is a non-negotiable fee payable for each academic term of stay.
A COMPAS Visiting Academic has no official affiliation to the University of Oxford and the association is designed for periods of independent, self-directed research work. It is not a training course, nor is it applicable for people wishing to apply for a student visa to study on a course. Unfortunately COMPAS is unable to assist with visa applications.
To request an application form please email lindsey.robinson@compas.ox.ac.uk.
Please clearly mark the subject of the email “COMPAS Visiting Academic Application”.
Dr. Ayşem Biriz Karaçay
8th March to 8th December 2013
Email:atokat@ku.edu.tr
Dr. Ayşem Biriz Karaçay has recently received her PhD degree on Political Science and International Relations from the Social Science Institute of Marmara University, Turkey. Her dissertation had focused on the flows and general characteristics of the project-tied migration between Turkey and the Russian Federation. She is the Administrator of Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc), since 2004 and a member of the Network of Excellence of IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) since 2008. Her interest areas include project-tied migration, irregular migration, human smuggling/trafficking, migration policy and border management and Turkish-Russian relationship.
As a researcher, she is now taking a part in the project entitled “The Russian-Turkish Migratory System: Methods of Estimations and Forecasting in Migration Flows” funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Her work in Oxford will yield findings on the diversity of migrants and flows on this newly emerging migration system between Turkey and the Russian Federation.
Yasin Kerem Gümüş
14 January to 31 December 2013
Email: ykgumus@sakarya.edu.tr
Yasin Kerem Gümüş holds a Phd in Labour Economics and Industrial Relations from Sakarya University and Master`s degree in Politics and Government in the EU from the LSE. He is currently an assistant Professor at Sakarya University.
Yasin is particularly interested in labour migration, highly skilled migrants and effects of labour migration on labour markets. Currently his project includes effects of labour migration on international trade.
Itsuko (Kanamoto) Toyama
20 September 2012 to 19 September 2013
Email: kanakana@andrew.ac.jp
Itsuko (Kanamoto) Toyama holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon, USA, and now is a professor at St. Andrew's University, Osaka, Japan. She has also been a research fellow at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan, since 2008.
Itsuko has conducted her comparative research on ageing and ethnicity of Japanese overseas in the USA, Brazil, and Peru, and has produced positive research results. In 2009, Itsuko was awarded “Mérito da Imigração Japonesa na Amazônia” for her outstanding academic contribution to the Japanese community in Pará, Brazil.
Itsuko will expand her research topic to “Global Migration and Active Ageing: A Study on Power, Ethnicity, and Representation of the Japanese Elderly Living Overseas,” and will start to conduct her fieldwork research in Europe during her sabbatical year in Oxford.
Martin Lundsteen
1 October 2012 to 31 March 2013
email: martinlundsteen@gmail.com
Martin is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of America and Africa at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He finished his BA in Cultural Studies at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, in 2008 and his MA in Anthropology and Ethnography at the University of Barcelona in 2010. His main study interests are the social relations bound in ethnic, national or racial affiliations and their economic and political groundings, along with a special attention to spatial and temporal processes.
His PhD research, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, deals with social conflicts and conviviality in Catalonia, Spain, with a special focus on coexistence and conflicts, by means of which he wants to understand how cultural diversity can be understood in relation to contemporary social conflicts. The main concern is to understand why in recent times social conflicts are often described as cultural conflicts.
As part from this, he has an interest in understanding the local-global connections and how to conceive of them methodologically, and is also very interested in urban anthropology, religion, Islam, Islamophobia, social politics and the politics of culture.