United Nations University – MERIT · Director´s Corner Podcast – Nov 2022   In this episode of the Director’s Corner Podcast, Director Bartel Van de Walle chats with Kathleen Hopewell, new Student Ambassador of the MPP Programme. In this conversation, Bartel shares with Kathleen insights gained from his career as a young academic through to the benefits and challenges of being director of UNU-MERIT. He also answers students’ questions and gives his thoughts on making ...

United Nations University – MERIT · Director’s Corner – Oct 2022   In this episode of the Director’s Corner, Prof. Bartel Van de Walle in conversation with Keith Burnet, Senior Advisor in Communications at UNU-MERIT, discusses how the institute’s Computational Innovation Lab – our new center of expertise on data, artificial intelligence and computational modelling – will help UNU-MERIT, the broader UN family and other policy-makers understand global trans...

UNU-MERIT · Director’s Corner – Sept 2022   In this month’s episode of the Director’s Corner, Prof. Bartel Van de Walle welcomes staff and students to the institute after the summer break and outlines his plans for the autumn. In conversation with Keith Burnet, Senior Advisor, Communications, he explains why research and education at MERIT is a two-way process and flags the benefits of working and studying in Maastricht.  ...

In April 2022, UNU joined other UN entities in endorsing a UN System pledge on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). In this blog series, members of the United Nations University Migration Network (UNU-MN) and guest contributors reflect on the equitable and evidence-based implementation of the GCM in policy and practice. In this first blog of the series, Dr Elaine Lebon-McGregor (UNU-MERIT) reflects on what we can really say about progress in implementing the GCM.  Ne...