Dr Katie Kuschminder has won a ‘Starting Grant’ from the European Research Council. Designed for postdocs with between two and seven years’ experience, the 1.5 million euro grant will enable Katie to form her own research team, which will focus on reintegration governance for migrants. Katie summed up her ‘Reintegrate’ project as follows: “Increasing numbers of people are returning to their origin countries after they migrate. This can be voluntary return or a...
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not the winning but the taking part.” So goes the famous saying by Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympic Games. But does the same apply for competitive research grants? UNU-MERIT’s Fabiana Visentin joins co-authors Charles Ayoubi and Michele Pezzoni to report on their study, which finds that simply taking part in an application process has a positive effect on researchers’ publication rates and on the average impact factor of th...
Education policies for the transition and integration of immigrant students are increasingly important in ethnically diverse countries like Canada. Yet the ability to support children’s integration varies greatly across countries, linked to a wide-range of national and regional characteristics. The impacts of these differences have been observed in the results of international achievement surveys – most notably the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). PISA results consistently ...