Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change - CRESC

Joelle Badran liep anderhalf jaar mee in een opvanghuis voor jonge vluchtelingen: "Minderjarige vluchtelingen zijn geen passieve wezens. Ze kunnen hun leven actief vormgeven en deelnemen aan de samenleving. Sociale professionals spelen hierin een sleutelrol."

Jongeren op de vlucht verloren veel, maar niet hun potentieel 'Creëer plaats en ruimte waar de jongeren kunnen gedijen.'

Job opening at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp (Belgium): Academic staff in the field of Socio-ecological inclusion and sustainability transitions (full time).
The new staff member will provide high-quality education in the new interuniversity MA in Sustainability Transitions and Socio-ecological Justice, a Dutch language master program organized by the University of Antwerp, University of Ghent and the Free University of Brussels. The University of Antwerp’s contribution of expertise to the new master program focuses on (1) socio-ecological inclusion along different axes (class, gender, ethnicity, age, etc.); (2) the transformation of institutions along socio-ecological lines; and (3) methods and skills for social inclusion in sustainability transitions.
You can find more information here: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/academic-staff/?q=3342&descr=Academic-staff-socio-ecological-inclusion-and-sustainability-transitions
Deadline for application is 21 May 2024 (by midnight Brussels time).

Academic staff socio-ecological inclusion and sustainability transitions | University of Antwerp YUFE vacancies

Congratulations to Mohamed AboTera who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on the politics of space and spatial design in post-revolutionary Caïro yesterday. Abotera's PhD research was supervised by Els De Vos (Faculty of Design Sciences) and Stijn Oosterlynck (CRESC).

De UAntwerpen - Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen zoekt een praktijkassistent voor transdisciplinair onderwijs rond sociaalrechtvaardige duurzaamheidstransities. Solliciteren kan tot 18 maart 2024.

Praktijkassistent praktijkgericht onderwijs rond sociaalrechtvaardige duurzaamheidstransities | Universiteit Antwerpen YUFE vacature

We zoeken een nieuwe onderzoeksmedewerker voor een doctoraat over de politieke en economische uitdagingen voor de stedelijke levenseconomie binnen de context van vermarkting en financialisering, met focus op ruimtes voor gemeenschapsactiviteiten. Solliciteren voor 29/2. Meer info bij Stijn Oosterlynck.

Doctoraatsbursaal in de stadsociologie | Universiteit Antwerpen YUFE vacature

On 5/12 Sara Elloukmani will defend her PhD thesis titled 'An exploration of workplace diversity discourses, practices and identities in nonprofit organizations'. Everyone is welcome at 10 am in Promotiezaal Grauwzusters (Lange St-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp). You can confirm your attendance at [email protected].

This week CRESC members participated at the Arnova conference in Orlando (FL).

Maes presented on how the institutional logics framework can be applied to study the relationship between Religious Solidarity Initiatives and the government.

Elloukmani participated at a roundtable to discuss her paper on institutional logics and workplace diversity management.

Björn Carré presented his work on advocacy strategies of NPOs in neo-corporatist Flanders.

Peter Raeymaeckers presented on the influence of nonprofit marketization on NPOs refraining from criticizing te government (With Ben Suykens (UGent)

Job opportunity! Greet De Block (History) and Stijn Oosterlynck (Sociology) are looking for a PhD researcher in the field of Urban Studies to carry out research on 15 minute cities in peri-urban environments. The research is part of the Driving Urban Transition project InPUT on Engaging Places and Communities for Integrated Peri-Urban Transitions. Apply before 11/12.

Doctoral scholarship holder Urban Studies | University of Antwerp YUFE vacancies

CRESC came about through a merger of a research group on poverty and social exclusion (OASeS) and a research team of environmental sociologists around prof. Ilse Loots and prof. Frederic Vandermoere. Environmental inequalities and justice are important research subjects for us. We are happy that some of our research insights, notably these of Robbe Geerts' PhD research, found their way in the scientific report of the High Commission on Just Transition in Belgium through the membership of Stijn Oosterlynck. Read the report here: https://www.justtransition.be/nl/naar-een-rechtvaardige-transitie-voor-belgie-beleidsmemorandum

Congratulations to Elien Diels who successfully defended her PhD on the factors determining regime performance and goal achievement in networks for local integration policies in five Flemish cities. Elien was supervised by Annie Hondeghem (KU Leuven) and Stijn Oosterlynck.

"We proberen blinde vlekken in de wetenschappelijke kennis op te vullen door experimenten op te zetten. Zo zetten onderzoekers van Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change - CRESC, lokale beleidsmakers en sociale organisaties in Ninove twee jongerenparticipatieprojecten op. Aan de hand van debatten en workshops kregen Ninoofse jongeren in de verschillende onderwijstypes de kans om hun stem te laten horen over lokale thema’s die hun bezighouden." PISTE Project https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20230922_93865995?fbclid=IwAR2v3HFtOmU0hZz9a0fAQpKVmpwDhMImqaoiyREp81V60dqVIle2YdA9rX8

Europees bezoek leert stad bij over stedelijk migratiebeleid: “De keuze voor de Denderstreek was snel gemaakt” Naar aanleiding van een Europees onderzoeksproject rond migratie in kleinere steden en gemeenten krijgt Ninove bezoek van een delegatie uit andere landen. Twee dagen lang komen zij kijken hoe de stad omgaat met migratie. Het is de Universiteit Antwerpen die de wortelstad naar voren heeft geschoven v...

CRESC is participating in the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne this week. Robbe Geerts presents research on social inequality as driver of green purchasing behaviour, Stijn Oosterlynck discussed the segregated nature of Flemish local civil society and Michiel Van Dam shared (online) his analysis of early experiments in the creation of 'sociological belief'.

Op dinsdag 6 juni 2023 om 14u verdedigt Dries Dingenen zijn doctoraal proefschrift 'De 'meervoudige natuur van actieonderzoek': Opportuniteiten en spanningsvelden van burgerparticipatie in sociaalwetenschappelijk onderzoek'. Promotoren: Anne Bergmans en Peter Raeymaeckers.

PhD defences in the Social Sciences | Sociale Wetenschappen | Universiteit Antwerpen PhD defences in the Social Sciences 2023 PhD defence - Raden Murwantara - 20/03/2023 Government Support for Enhancing Public Private Partnerships: Comparing, Explaining and Studying the Effects of variations Across European CountriesPromotor: Prof. dr. Koen VerhoestCo-Promotor: prof. dr. Steven Van....

On Thursday 8 June at 10 am Loubna Ou-Salah will publicly defend her doctoral thesis titled '"Soon water will be worth gold!" A qualitative study on how environmental factors are considered during migration decision-making in the Moroccan and Belgian context'. Supervisors: Gert Verschraegen & Lore Van Praag.

PhD defences in the Social Sciences | Sociale Wetenschappen | Universiteit Antwerpen PhD defences in the Social Sciences 2023 PhD defence - Raden Murwantara - 20/03/2023 Government Support for Enhancing Public Private Partnerships: Comparing, Explaining and Studying the Effects of variations Across European CountriesPromotor: Prof. dr. Koen VerhoestCo-Promotor: prof. dr. Steven Van....

Wees welkom! Dries Dingenen verdedigt zijn proefschrift over "de meervoudige natuur van actieonderzoek". Hij verricht onderzoek naar sociaalwerkpraktijken en en reflecteert over de positie van de onderzoeker tijdens het uitvoeren van participatief .

Invitation PhD defence Dries Dingenen 06/06/2023

Cultural engagement is strongly related to environmental practices, above and beyond educational differences. While various cultural tastes relate differently to environmental practices, we show that environmental practices are a cultural taste and distinction strategy. New paper in the journal Poetics from Robbe Geerts, Frederic Vandermoere and Stijn Oosterlynck.

Culture and green tastes. A sociological analysis of the relationship between cultural engagement and environmental practices In this study, we approach environmental practices from a cultural point of view, focusing on the role of cultural capital. While previous studies hav…

Ona Schyvens, Mortier and Stijn Oosterlynck presenting their ongoing research on the PISTE Project Mid-term Conference on migrant integration in small and medium-sized towns in Thessaloniki, respectively focussing on the influence of far-right parties in Ninove and Fermo and on the impact of buddy programmes on network expansion of newly arrived migrants.

Milena Belloni and the new Network on Migration and Global mobility at the University of Antwerp has a vacancy for a doctoral researcher that will work on a project called “Outsourcing family visa processes: the role of non-state actors in migration border management”. Deadline for application is May 8th, 2023.

Doctoral scholarship holder migration and global mobility studies | University of Antwerp YUFE vacancies

Hoe kunnen kleine/middelgrote steden het beste aan de slag met een integratie- of antidiscriminatiebeleid en een langetermijnvisie op integratie ontwikkelen?

Reminder voor de studiedag op 31 maart waar deze vragen en nog veel meer beantwoord zullen worden! Inschrijven is nog mogelijk tot 20 maart.

Georganiseerd door Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities, LEVL.be, VVSG, Hannah Arendt Instituut en PISTE Project.

Samenwerken aan een participatief lokaal integratiebeleid in kleine en middelgrote steden | BSoG Lokale besturen in Vlaanderen hebben sinds 2012 de regierol toebedeeld gekregen in het vormgeven, coördineren en uitvoeren van integratiebeleid. Waar lokale actoren in grotere steden veel ervaring

Hoe kunnen kleine/middelgrote steden het beste aan de slag met een integratie- of antidiscriminatiebeleid en een langetermijnvisie op integratie ontwikkelen?

Kom naar onze studiedag op 31 maart waar deze vragen en nog veel meer beantwoord zullen worden!

Georganiseerd door Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities, LEVL.be, VVSG, Hannah Arendt Instituut en PISTE Project.

https://brussels-school.be/event/samenwerken-aan-een-participatief-lokaal-integratiebeleid-kleine-en-middelgrote-steden?fbclid=IwAR3b5shEURY9ap6Xh2fXK3DpBoAnkUAUeA3ZyGOz_MU2fbq7gdHblPx_0FI

Samenwerken aan een participatief lokaal integratiebeleid in kleine en middelgrote steden | BSoG Lokale besturen in Vlaanderen hebben sinds 2012 de regierol toebedeeld gekregen in het vormgeven, coördineren en uitvoeren van integratiebeleid. Waar lokale actoren in grotere steden veel ervaring

Zin in een nieuwe uitdaging? We zoeken een mandaatassistent in het domein sociaal werk en gezondheidszorg. Heb je kennis van het sociaalwerkdomein en expertise in kwantitatief onderzoek? Solliciteer dan voor deze job! Met Peter Raeymaeckers en Edwin Wouters (Centre for Population, Family and Health - CPFH).

Mandaatassistent sociaal werk en de gezondheidszorg | Universiteit Antwerpen YUFE vacature

Congratulations to Iolanda Bianchi, who has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project "A new frontier in EU urban policy-making: commons-inspired co-production arrangements". The application was supported by Antwerp Urban Studies Institute

Didier Boost Björn Blom and Peter Raeymaeckers wrote a chapter that explicates our approach of creating ontological depth in social work evaluation research. We specifically focus on the conduct of abstraction and imagine this as a gathering of three characters.

The content of our contribution is more serious than the title of our chapter :)

‘A Detective, Physicist and Historian Walk into a Bar: Abduction, Retroduction and Retrodiction in Critical Realist Evaluations'

Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters This international and interdisciplinary collection gathers stories from researchers and research students about their methodological encounters with critical realism. Whether the contributors are experienced or novice researchers, they are predominantly new to critical realism. For various reasons,...

We welcome Harm Deleu. He will conduct an evaluative study of Kadans Wonen. Harm will adopt a qualitative life course methodology focusing on how people experiencing homelessness perceive encounters with professionals from Kadans. This project is supervised by Peter Raeymaeckers & Piet Pennentwist

Lise Dheedene doet bijdrage over samenwerken met religieuze organisaties op basis van haar onderzoek naar sociaal werk van Pinksterkerken op SOLIGION workshop of Facts to Act festival van Hannah Arendt Instituut.

Benoît El-Achkar, Robbe Geerts and Stijn Oosterlynck attended the annual RN37 urban sociology conference at Humboldt University in Berlin this week. They presented papers on green gentrification, on smart cities and on city-state relations.

Last week several CRESC researchers travelled to Athens for the RC21 Urban Researchers Network annual conference.

* Lise Dheedene, Elisabet Van Wymeersch and Stijn Oosterlynck organized four conference sessions on Nurturing Urban Solidarities in Exceptional Times.

* Sarah Maes and Marjan Moris presented the paper 'From Above, but Bottom up: Faith Based Solidarity Initiatives in the City'

* Stijn Oosterlynck presented the paper 'How the urban matters: assessing the place-based social innovation capacity of urban civil society in Europe'.

* Stijn Oosterlynck participated in the RC21 board meeting as newly elected board member.

Sara Elloukmani, Aaron Brusseel, Liesbeth Naessens & Peter Raeymaeckers attended the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) conference in Montreal. They presented and discussed their papers on advocacy outcomes, diversity in non-profit organizations and volunteer-professional collaboration.

of Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change - CRESC presenting @ her paper on diversity discourses in non-profit and civil soviety organizations."Unpacking diversity in nonprofit organizations."

This term Federico Rossi is a visiting scholar at CRESC. Federico is a doctoral researcher from Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo and works on local immigrant policies and rural development in Italy. He is a member of the PISTE consortium that analyses the political participation of migrants in local integration policies in small and medium-sized municipalities in Belgium, Italy, Germany and Greece. Feel free to contact Federico if you are working on similar issues.