Visiting Professors and Scholars
Ethem Kadri Pektaş
Dr Ethem Kadri Pektaş is a member of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at the Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. His department is Public Administration. Dr Pektas obtained his Master’s degree in Public Administration (1997) and his PhD (2003) from the Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. His research interests are local governments and local services, local politics and local democracy, urbanization problems (housing, employment, education, security, health, adaptation and integration) and environmental problems. At Trinity, he will work alongside Dr Daniel Faas on the on the project ‘Citizen Participation in Irish and Turkish Local Governments’ funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Dr Pektaş is a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology from 19th September 2013 until 18th September 2014. He is a visiting fellow in the Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin from 19th September 2013 until 18th September 2014.
Contact: Room C6.005 IIIS, Arts Building, Email: pektas@aku.edu.tr
Francisco Javier Ullán de la Rosa
Professor Ullán de la Rosa currently holds a position as Associate Professor at Universidad de Alicante (Spain), Department of Sociology. He received a BA in Geography and History at Universidad Complutense de Madrid; an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics, London; a PhD in Political Science and Sociology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has previously worked in several universities in Latin America (México, Ecuador, Bolivia) and lectured as visiting scholar in several , among others, Cambridge University, University of Southampton, Oxford Brookes University, Université de Perpignan, Université de Marne-La-Vallée, Università degli Studi di Genova, Università degli Studi di Milano. His research experience spans a varied range of topics, mainly in the field of Spanish and Latin American Studies (processes of social and cultural change among Indian populations, religious movements, immigration processes and policies and Latin American supranational integration) with fieldwork research in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil and Spain. Professor Ullán de la Rosa is a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology from 1 September until 31 December 2013.
Contact: Room 2.09, 3 College Green; Tel.: +353 (0) 1 896 2498; Email: javier.ullan@ua.es
Binod Khadria
Binod Khadria is Professor of Economics and Education at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and Director of the International Migration and Diaspora Studies (IMDS) Project. He has been a recipient of the prestigious Times Fellowship and the Fulbright Fellowship. His publications include The Migration of Knowledge Workers: Second-generation Effects of India's Brain Drain (Sage, 1999) and several research papers published by ILO, OECD, GCIM, IRD (France), IDE-JETRO (Japan), Harvard International Review and 2010 World Social Science Report. He is Deputy Chair (South Asia) and Regional Coordinator (India) at Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN), and sits on the Boards of International Network on Migration and Development (INMD), Zacatecas (Mexico); International Geographical Union (IGU); the Metropolis International (Canada); IOM Migration Research and Training Centre (MRTC) in South Korea; IOM’s World Migration Report 2010; Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (Philippines); Journal of South Asian Diaspora (India); Journal of International Migration and Integration (Canada); International Journal of Organizational Studies (Slovenia); Migration Studies (OUP, forthcoming 2013, UK), and Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (2013, Wiley-Blackwell). He was a nominated member of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) Civil Society Days (CSD) held in Athens in November 2009. He launched the annual India Migration Report in 2009 on the sub-theme Past, Present and the Future Outlook (distributed by Cambridge University Press; now in second reprint), and the subsequent volume, India Migration Report 2010-2011: The Americas has been published by Cambridge University Press, New York (2012). Recently, he received the Indian TV news channel Headlines Today’s National Education Leadership Award for 2012. Professor Khadria is a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology from February until April 2013.
Contact: Room C6.006 IIIS; Tel.: +353 (0) 1 896 3226; Email: bkhadria@gmail.com
Dinara Yessimova
Dinara Yessimova is a member of the faculty (Docent) at the Eurasian National University (L.N. Gumiliov), Astana, Kazakhstan (Department of Psychology and Social Work, Faculty of Social Science) where her teaching includes courses on social policy, modern paradigms in urban studies, social prediction and design in social work, and social systems of society. From 2011-2012 she was Head of the Education Quality Assessment Department of the Eurasian National University, Astana. Dr Yessimova obtained her Master’s degree in Sociology (2004) and her PhD (2010) from the Kazakh National University (Al Farabi), Almaty. She has been awarded a two year Senior Fellowship (2012 – 2014) by the Higher Educational Support Program of the Open Society Foundation and the Academic Advisory Committee of the Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiatives (CARTI), Budapest, to carry out a study on 'Middle-age loneliness as a choice? A study of never-married well educated urban Kazakhs'. Dr Yessimova’s main areas of interest include: the sociology of social work, sociology of personality, marginal man in a modern society, social and cultural loneliness in urban space, urban studies, urban and rural development, sociology of knowledge. Dr Yessimova is a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology from March until May 2013.
Contact: Tel: +353 (0) 87 389 3154; Email: 777777dina@mail.ru