Ilse van liempt 🟥

Professor Geographies of Migration and Urban Inequalities/Director of Research Human Geography and Spatial Planning Utrecht University

Netherlands

About

Associate Professor Urban Geography, Utrecht University Assistant Professor Urban Geography & Qualitative Research, Utrecht University Postdoc researcher Surveillance in Urban Nightscapes (SUN), Utrecht University Postdoc researcher: University of Sussex Research on intra-EU mobility of former refugees Phd researcher: Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Amsterdam Research on human smuggling into the Netherlands Specialties: International migration, refugees, human smuggling, human trafficking, gender, public space, surveillance, qualitative research

Experience

  • Utrecht University (5 yrs 6 mos)
    • Professor Geographies of Migration and Urban Inequalities
      Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    • Associate Professor in Urban Geography
      Feb 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • Universiteit Utrecht (11 yrs)
    • Assistant Professor Qualitative Research Methods/Urban Geography
      Apr 2012 - Feb 2021 · 8 yrs 11 mos

    • Postdoc Researcher Urban Geography
      Mar 2010 - Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Postdoc Researcher on SUN project: Surveillance in Urban Nightscapes www.stadsnachtwacht.nl

  • researcher at Open Society Foundations
    2013 - 2014 · 1 yr

  • POSTDOC RESEARCHER at University of Sussex
    Jan 2008 - Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • University of Amsterdam (6 yrs 1 mo)
    • RESEARCHER
      2007 - 2008 · 1 yr

      Project 'Multi-ethnic neighbourhoods as tourist destinations: commodification of ethnic diversity and the quality of the neighbourhood and its economy'

    • LECTURER
      2006 - 2008 · 2 yrs

      MA course: World Cities: Economic Transformation and Ethnic Diversity BA course: Ethnic Diversity and Popular Culture

    • phd student
      2002 - 2006 · 4 yrs

      PhD thesis: Navigating Borders: inside perspectives on the process of human smuggling into the Netherlands