Özge Bilgili's expertise is on immigrant integration, transnationalism and education research and policy analysis in relevant areas. She has recently started the project ““Am I welcome or not?” Exploring the impacts of competing political narratives on international students in the Netherlands” funded by Dutch Research Council (Open XS) and established the Special Interest Group on International Student Mobility within Utrecht University’s Focus Area on Migration and Societal change with an interdisciplinary group of academics.

Additionally, she is involved in a large number of international research and impact projects including: 

• Meer uren werkt! Groeifunds
• RAISE Horizon Project: Recognition and Acknowledgement of Injustice to Strengthen Equality 
• 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 an Executive Board member of the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration IMISCOE, 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). In the past, she has been the chair of Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR) between 2016-2022, 

Özge Bilgili is also a founding member of the social initiative Parenting across Borders and actively involved in its activities.