Özge Bilgili is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary social science at Utrecht University. Her expertise is on immigrant integration, transnationalism and education research and policy analysis in relevant areas.
In 2017, she finalised a project on education policies for newly arrived immigrant children in Ontario (Canada) and the Netherlands as a Thomas J. Alexander fellow at the Education and Skills Department of the OECD. Currently she is working on a number of research and impact projects including:
- Sleepless in Academia: Responding to New Academic Parents’ Challenges
- Power of One: Towards the Representation of Unheard and Unseen Individuals in the Hospital, Workplace and Neighbourhood
- Countering the Virus: Discrimination and Protestation in Multicultural Europe
- Navigating and making urban physical and digital spaces in the Covid-19 pandemic: Experiences of Chinese newcomers in Amsterdam
- Towards a more inclusive UMC Utrecht: Researching the effects of a bias awareness training for teachers
She is the chair of Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR), a board member of the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration IMISCOE, the co-coordinator of its Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism and an affiliated researcher of United Nations University MERIT. She is also a member of Utrecht Young Academy. She currently represents the Utrecht Young Academy within the Board of Research of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Science. As an assistant professor at Utrecht University, she is part of European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) and the Inter-university Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS).
Özge Bilgili is also a founding member of the social initiative Parenting across Borders and actively involved in its activites.