Social protection is not only a human right — in the long term it also boosts economies, says Prof. Franziska Gassmann, as she takes up her new Chair in ‘Social Protection and Development’ at Maastricht University. Below she explains why and how social protection works, and how much more needs to be done. Click here for the inaugural lecture event, and here to download the speech. … If the first Sustainable Development Goal (“End poverty in all its form everywhere”) is to be taken se...
Dr. Melissa Siegel, who runs the Migration and Development group at UNU-MERIT, was appointed Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University in August 2016. She gives her inaugural lecture on ‘Migration &: The Depth and Breadth of Migration Studies’ on 2 June 2017. Howard Hudson caught up with her to find out more. What’s the backstory to your intriguing lecture title? It was meant to be thought-provoking. The point is to show how migration is linked to so many things in the wo...
In December 2016, the University of Khartoum in Sudan, East Africa, approved the promotion of Dr. Samia Satti Osman Mohamed Nour to the status of full Professor of Economics. Prior to this, she gained a PhD in Economics from Maastricht University in 2005 and remains an Affiliated Researcher at UNU-MERIT. With this promotion, Nour becomes the first female professor in the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Khartoum since its establishment in 1958; the first female professor of ...
Dr. Melissa Siegel has been appointed Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University from August 2016. She has also been appointed Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) from 1 September 2016. She joins Professors Gerard-Rene de Groot and Maarten Vink as MACIMIDE Co-Director. Dr. Siegel is Head of Migration Studies at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and a Senior Researcher and Migration and Development research theme leade...
Dr. Franziska Gassmann was made Professor in the Department of Social Security Studies at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Science (HBRS), Germany, on 28 May 2015. She was welcomed and confirmed in the role by University President Prof. Hartmut Ihne, in a signing ceremony attended by Dr. Esther Schuring, a PhD alumna who now works as a lecturer and researcher at HBRS. Prof. Gassmann will remain based in Maastricht, but teach occasional Master courses at HBRS. These will cover a broad ra...