Job Vacancies

Samuel Hall Research Assistant Pillar 1   

Samuel Hall are seeking a professional Migration & Displacement (Pillar 1) Research Assistant (RA) to join its team for a full-time position based in our Nairobi office.

A call for new three-year PhD scholarship has just been announced, for a project co-supervised between the University of Edinburgh Centre of African Studies (CAS) and the African Studies Centre at the University of Leiden (ASCL) to begin in September 2022. 

DeZIM is a non-university research institute devoted to migration and integration that was established in 2017. As a federal research institution, it performs research and policy development in the fields of family, gender equality, children and youth, senior citizens and engagement policy. 

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific 
(ROAP) in Bangkok, Thailand is one of the 9 IOM Regional Offices (RO) that oversees and 
provides strategic and technical support to IOM activities within the region. 
 

The South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub (MIDEQ)  is looking for an experienced and committed Research Fellow to support with the delivery of research and development interventions for our work package on legal remedies and access to justice (A2J) within and between the six migration ‘corridors’ in which the MIDEQ Hub is working. 

About MMC: 

The Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) is a global network consisting of seven regional hubs (Asia, East Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East, North Africa, West Africa) and a central unit in Geneva. MMC is a leading source for independent and high-quality data, research, analysis and expertise on mixed migration. MMC aims to increase understanding of mixed migration, to positively impact global and regional migration policies, to inform evidence-based protection responses for people on the move and to stimulate forward thinking in public and policy debates on mixed migration.

POSTING 1 

Samuel Hall are seeking a professional Migration & Displacement (Pillar 1) Research Assistant (RA) with a strong background in climate change and environmental issues to join its team for a full-time position based either in our Nairobi office or remotely. Samuel Hall’s Migration & Displacement Pillar covers a wide range of topics on durable solutions, return and reintegration, migration and development, cross-border mobility, trafficking in persons, smuggling, aspirations and migrant ecosystems, internal displacement and IDPs, refugee protection, and climate-mobility interactions. The Research Assistant will manage between one and three projects simultaneously and be increasingly involved in research aspects. There is a strong potential for domestic, regional, and international travel. 

The Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) for migration and mobility studies nccr – on the move brings together research projects from the social sciences, economics and law. Managed from the University of Neuchâtel, the network comprises eight Higher Education Institutions in Switzerland. The nccr – on the move promotes equal opportunities, values diversity and fosters an inclusive research and learning environment. 

The Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal featuring original, high-quality research related to diverse aspects of forced migration, as well as Field Reflections and Reviews

The NWA (Dutch Research Agenda) project ‘Dilemmas of doing Diversity’ (DIDI) are looking for 4 PhD candidates and 3 postdocs. The PhD candidates and postdocs will work closely together, but will be based a different institutions (Leiden, EUR, Delft of NIDI).