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ONLY AVAILABLE FOR RUNOMI MEMBERS RUNOMI is able to fund 5 initiatives of RUNOMI members taking place in the year 2025 (so before 1 January 2026) with a grant of maximum €1500. Required is that the initiative adds value for RUNOMI (i.e. is connected to the RUNOMI goals), is interdisciplinary and connects multiple researchers acrossContinue reading “RUNOMI Member Grants”

Join us for the ‘Decolonising’ Digital Data symposium on October 9th. In this one-day event, we will explore how to critically examine and reimagine prevailing digital practices and infrastructures through a decolonial lens. We will bring together scholars and practitioners who work at the intersection of digital research, critical epistemologies, and data justice. We areContinue reading “Symposium ‘Decolonizing’ Data: Epistemologies, Imaginaries, and Sovereignties”

Please send an expression of interest before June 10, 2025 to joost.beuving@ru.nl, and send abstracts for papers (250-400 words) before June 27, 2025 to the same email address. Selected paper-givers will be informed before/during the summer.

Are you a passionate quantitative researcher eager to tackle societal challenges related to labour migrants’ work and living conditions in the Netherlands and beyond? Do you have the organisational and entrepreneurial skills to help expand RUNOMI’s research partnerships and inspire students through teaching? Join us as a postdoctoral researcher in the RUNOMI Labour Migration Research Programme.

Call for Papers: “Labor markets and the “migrant worker” in light of technological
transformation: an interdisciplinary dialogue” Date: November 13-14, 2025
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen Netherlands

Speakers from different disciplines will be addressing the topical theme of this year’s congress: migrant inclusion and populism. From the RUNOMI network, these include Janine Suurmond (RadboudUMC), Andrej Zaslove (Nijmegen School of Management) and Niels Spierings (Social Sciences). As RUNOMI strives for its research to have impact not only in theory but also in practice, societal organisations such as Represent Jezelf and Open Embassy will reflect on the academic contributions. 

As host of the Annual Meeting of The European Network of Intercultural Elderly Care (ENIEC), RUNOMI is delighted to invite you to participate in interactive workshop sessions on Thursday, April 10th, at the Maria Montessori building, Radboud University.

We rarely—if ever—reach out to colleagues with urgent pleas for money, for generosity, for charity. And yet, here I am doing just that. I would love for you to take a moment to learn about the initiative I am supporting on behalf of the Radboud Refugee Working Group: raising funds to purchase books for refugees.

This multidisciplinary course offers valuable insights into key challenges surrounding migrant inclusion in a digitalised society. By engaging with experts from diverse fields, participants will develop a comprehensive, multidisciplinary understanding of one of today’s most pressing and widely discussed topics.

On Thursday 27 February, we will dive into The Digital Transformation of the European Border Regime: The Powers and Perils of Imagining Future Borders (Bristol University Press, 2024) with dr. Paul Trauttmansdorff, a researcher in the social studies of science and technology. 

On Tuesday, November 12, KCA officially transferred its research data to RUNOMI and Risbo. This marks the launch of the RUNOMI-Risbo Knowledge Program on Labour Migration, ensuring that critical research on labour migration continues sustainably, with valuable data and insights remaining accessible to the scientific community. KCA’s board will stay involved as an informal advisory council.

RUNOMI, together with Radboud AI, will be hosting a seminar on digital non-use as agentic strategy of resistance and resilience in the context of socially marginalized populations. Keynote lecture by Prof. Arul Chib’s (Erasmus University Rotterdam) presents empirical evidence on varied global communities facing societal and digital discrimination, ranging from transgender sex work and forced migration. AContinue reading “Strategizing silence: Digital non-use as agency for marginalized communities”

For more information and to sign up: https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/events/inclusive-participation-and-digitalization

We are extremely excited to be inviting you to join this year’s edition of RUNOMI’s annual congress which will be taking place in Nijmegen on 20 June. This year’s theme will be Migrant inclusion in theory and practice – debunking myths and redrawing maps in the field of migration. The theme reflects the two keynoteContinue reading “RUNOMI Annual Conference 2024”