mobile society | nccr – on the move https://nccr-blog.flake.work Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:59:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Stranded in Academic Mobility: The Isolating Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic https://nccr-blog.flake.work/stranded-in-academic-mobility-the-isolating-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/stranded-in-academic-mobility-the-isolating-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/#respond Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:30:00 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=6788 Mobility is a key criterion for assessing academic excellence. International mobility undoubtedly allows junior researchers to have essential experiences and broaden their networks. Nevertheless, the difficulties that go along with mobility – relocation of family members, administrative burdens, and informal connections with the host institution – can reduce these potential

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/stranded-in-academic-mobility-the-isolating-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/feed/ 0 Fading Career Prospects of Mobility Researchers “Stuck” in Immobility? https://nccr-blog.flake.work/fading-career-prospects-of-mobility-researchers-stuck-in-immobility/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/fading-career-prospects-of-mobility-researchers-stuck-in-immobility/#respond Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:30:26 +0000 https://blog.nccr-onthemove.ch/?p=6687 What happens when you are researching a topic that is suddenly suspended and prone to alter fundamentally in the future? How are the early career prospects of mobility researchers and their sense of purpose when getting “stuck” and isolated in an unfamiliar place? While the “new normal” and its implications

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/fading-career-prospects-of-mobility-researchers-stuck-in-immobility/feed/ 0 Back to the Future? Towards the Post-Liminal Phase of Covid-19 https://nccr-blog.flake.work/back-to-the-future-towards-the-post-liminal-phase-of-the-covid-19/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/back-to-the-future-towards-the-post-liminal-phase-of-the-covid-19/#respond Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:40:00 +0000 https://blog.nccr-onthemove.ch/?p=6010 The Covid-19 crisis represents one of those situations in life, where ‘normality’ as we know it is temporarily suspended; situations that make some of us immobile. After this crisis, are we going back to our habitual routines and ways of moving like before? Or are we going back to a

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/back-to-the-future-towards-the-post-liminal-phase-of-the-covid-19/feed/ 0 Voting Rights – A Question of Nationality or Residence? https://nccr-blog.flake.work/voting-rights-a-question-of-nationality-or-residence/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/voting-rights-a-question-of-nationality-or-residence/#respond Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:17:39 +0000 https://blog.nccr-onthemove.ch/?p=3305 In times of global migration and mobility citizenship and voting rights need to be reconsidered, especially in countries or cities with a high rate of foreign residents. In Brussels an initiative is proposing to grant voting rights to all residents of the city. In Switzerland the concept of citizenship in

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