Assistenz Prof. Dr. Heidrun Bohnet

Heidrun Bohnet is Assistant Professor at the Department for Migration and Globalisation since October 2020.

• Assistant Professor at the Department for Migration and Globalisation
• Teaching advanced qualitative and quantitative research methods, forced migration and violent conflict dynamics
• PhD Programme Management of “Migration Studies” and supervising PhD candidates
• Coordinating the research cluster on “Integration and Social Cohesion”
• Co-leading the cooperation between Danube University Krems and the Austrian Institute for International Affairs on “Migration and International Politics”
• Responsible for organising interdisciplinary migration research seminars

Before joining the Department for Migration and Globalisation, Heidrun Bohnet was research and teaching fellow (Maître Assistante) at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva and senior researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC). She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University Geneva, Switzerland. Heidrun Bohnet has led and be involved in various international (geo-coded) data collection projects on displacement. Heidrun Bohnet has published in leading international relations journals, such as the Journal of Conflict Research, Conflict Management and Peace Science and Civil Wars.

Her key research areas include:

• De facto (forced) migration policies and mixed migration
• The nexus between forced migration (conflict and environment-induced) and violent conflict (e.g., ethnic)
• Spatial, categorical, and temporal interlinkages between migration flows and policies
• Return and (re)integration processes
• Protracted displacement situations and settlement patterns of refugees and IDPs
• Regional and field expertise in Eastern Africa and the Middle East