1) Asylum-seeking as a process of identity recognition in power-saturated environments as well as the implication of the socio-technological platforms for the process of asylum-seeking practices feeding into the institutional policies and politics of suspicion.

2) the institutional responses to super-diversity in urban and non-urban spaces across Europe with a specific focus on regular primary school classrooms and classrooms for the reception of young recently arrived third-country nationals engaged in civic integration trajectories.

3) e-citizenship apprenticeship, e-inclusion/exclusion and the process of enregisterment - through CEFR based language testing of newly arrived migrants in discourses of morality and national belonging.

4) e-gains and e-losses: processes of e-learning and digitalisation of classical/canonical learning materials, e.g. books belonging to a Country's literary canon, being turned into gamified software. How does this impact on learning and teaching practices in secondary school classrooms

July 2021 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. 

July 2021 - present: research programme leader - Rapid Socio-Cultural Transformations Online and Offline - Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences

Jan. 2012 - June. 2021: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Culture Studies and Deputy Director of Babylon - Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society, Faculty of Humanities, Tilburg University.

Jan. 2012 - Jan. 2021: Deputy Director, Babylon - Centre for the Study of Superdiversity, Faculty of Humanities, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

From January 2011 - Dec. 2012: Researcher at the Social Media and Discourse Unit, Dept. of Languages, Jyväskylä University

From Feb. 2010 - Dec. 2010: Post-Doctoral Researcher within the Fi.Di.Pro scheme (Finland Distinguished Professor Scheme)  at the Dept. of Languages, Jyväskylä University

From Sept. 2008 - May 2009: post-doctoral fellow for the Centre for International Mobility (CIMO) Dept. of Languages, Jyväskylä University.

From Sept 2007 - Dec. 2012: researcher / education co-ordinator at Babylon - Centre for the Study of the Multicultural Society / Faculty of Arts, Tilburg University. 

From Sept. 2004 - Sept. 2007: PhD Candidate, Dept. Taal en Cultuur, Faculteit der Letteren, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.   

Lecturer for the following courses:

Language Globalisation and Superdiversity (MA)

Advancements in Ethnography (MA Res)

Research Methodology: Ethnographic Research (MA)

Discourse and Media Theory (BA)

Digital Literacies (BA)

Doing Research Skills (BA)

Master thesis circle MCD: Superdiversity and practices of Integration

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Completed PhD supervision

Jasmina Maric (ext. promovendus) on the construction of social capital among the members of two serbian migrant communities online in Sweden.

Leo Kunming (int. promovendus TSHD) On being posh or kamp? The dynamics of identification economy amongst Chinese Weibo users.

Peter Szabo (ext. promovendus TSHD) European Multilingualism as Discursive and Social Practice: An Ethnographic Analysis of Multilingualism in the European Parliament.

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Internal PhD Committees