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Tim Elrick
(né Fallenbacher)

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The University of Edinburgh
School of Social and Political Studies

Crystal Macmillan Building
15A George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
United Kingdom

Education Professional Experience Teaching Memberships Publications Selected Presentations
Research Foci:
  • social networks / social capital
  • (ethnic / immigrant) entrepreneurship
  • labour migration
  • social in- / exclusion
 
 
Education

at present

PhD candidate in Socio-Economic Geography, Free University of Berlin
Thesis (working title): "Which ethnic business? Comparing pratices of 'ethnic' and 'non-ethnic' entrepreneurs in Germany and the UK" (supervisor: Prof. Kreutzmann)

2001

M.A. in Geography, Political Economy & Business Administration, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and
Teacher's degree (1. Staatsexamen) in Geography & Economics/Law, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

1994 - 2001

Studies in Geography, Economics & Business Administration, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
 
 
Awards/Fellowships

2002 - 2004

PhD scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Munich, Germany

2001

Prize awarded for an outstanding M.A. thesis by the Franconian Geographical Society (Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft FGG), Erlangen
 
 
Professional Experience

2004-2008

Research fellow in the EU Marie Curie Excellence Grant Project KNOWMIG

2004 - 2006

Researcher at the HWWA-Migration Research Group

2002 - 2003

Researcher in a Bavarian pilot scheme related to the Agenda 21 concerning the "Situation of Women in the Administrative District of Ansbach". The project was financed by the European Social Fonds and the Government of Bavaria

2001 - 2002

Consultant in GIS-based social research projects commissioned by the Protestant church of Bavaria

1998/99

Researcher in a German Research Foundation (DFG) project entitled "Tropical mountain forests in Southern Ecuador" on the social part of the project in Southern Ecuador
 
 
Teaching

Winter Term
2008/09

Methods of empirical regional research, B.A. course, Department of Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany

Winter Term
2006/07

Socialgeographical migration research and regional development, M.A. course in Migration and Integration (IMIB), Department of Geography / IMIS, University of Osnabrück, Germany

Summer Term
2006

Migration, sociogeographical change and ethnic conflicts, M.A. course in Migration and Integration (IMIB), Department of Geography / IMIS, University of Osnabrück, Germany

Winter Term
2005/06

Europe and International Migration, MA course in Peace Research, IFSH, Hamburg, Germany (part time)
 
 
Memberships

since 2005

Network of Excellence in the domain of International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE)

since 2001

Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH)
   
 
Other Functions

Since 2007

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Student Journal for Politics and Society 360°
 
 
Publications

forthcoming 2009

Migration Networks and Policy Impacts: Insights from Romanian-Spanish Migrations (with Oana Ciobanu) In: Global Networks 9(1).

forthcoming 2009

Changing patterns of Polish labour migration after UK's opening of the labour market? Insights from rural case studies in the voidvodship Opolskie and Swietokrzyskie. (with Emilia Lewandowska) In: Kathy Burrell (ed.): Polish Migration to the UK in the 'New' European Union: After 2004, Ashgate.

forthcoming 2008

Politici de migratie si strategii ale migrantilor transnationali între România si Spania. In: Anghel, Remus and Istvan Horvath (eds.): Sociologia Migratiei: Cazul Romanesc. Polirom. (with Oana Ciobanu) [Translated title: Migration policies and strategies of transnational migrants between Romania and Spain]

2008

The Influence of Migration on Origin Communities: Insights from Polish Migrations to the West. In: Europe Asia Studies 60(9): 1505-1519.

2008

Policy Brief: Migration Networks and Their Influence on Migration Policies. In: focusMigration. Hamburg/Berlin.

2008

Rezension (Review): "Goeke, Pascal 2007: Transnationale Migrationen. Post-jugoslawische Biografien in der Weltgesellschaft. Bielefeld. " In: Geographische Revue 10(1): 71-77.

2008

Matching and Making Labour Demand and Supply: Agents in Polish Migrant Networks of Domestic Elderly Care in Germany and Italy (with Emilia Lewandowska) In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 34(5): 717-734.

2008

The New Face of East-West Migration in Europe, special edition of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 34:5, guest edited with Adrian Favell.

2007

Der Einfluss von Migration auf die Herkunftsgemeinden. Fallstudien polnisch-deutscher Migrationen. In: Nowicka, Magda (Hg.): Von Polen nach Deutschland und zurück. Die Arbeitsmigration und ihre Herausforderungen für Europa. transcript Publishers: pp. 249-270. (with Emilia Lewandowska) [Translated title: The influence of migration on the origin communities. Case studies Polish-German migrations]

2005

State of the Art: Migration Decision Making and Social Networks (KnowMig Working Paper, February 2005)

2001

"Ethnic Business" in Nürnberg: Fallstudie Dönerkebap. In: Mitteilungen der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 48: pp. 247-272. (Ethnic business in Nuremberg: case study on the donar kebap trade).
 
 
Selected Presentations

Jan 2008

"Temporary Migration and Community Cohesion: the Nature and Impact of Migration from East-Central to Western Europe", Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, UK;
Topic: The influence of migration on the origin communities. Insights from rural Poland

Oct 2007

Biannual Conference of the German Geographers (Deutscher Geographentag), 2007, Bayreuth, Germany;
Topic: Are "ethnic" entrepreneurs different entrepreneurs?

Sept 2007

IMISCOE Annual conference 2007 at University of Sussex, UK;
Topic: Evaluating the Impact of Migration Policy Changes on Migration Strategies. Insights from Romanian-Spanish migrations (with Oana Ciobanu)

Aug 2007

Royal Geographic Society-Institute of British Geographers RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2007 in London, UK;
Topic: Being an ‘ethnic entrepreneur’ or just being entrepreneurial?

Apr 2007

Conference "Three Years On: EU Accession and East European Migration to the UK and Ireland", Leicester, DeMontfort University, Presentation on "Changing Patterns of Polish Migration after May 2004? Insights from Rural Migration to the UK" (with Emilia Lewandowska)

July 2006

International Migration Conference, Migrinter, University of Poitiers, France
Topic: Are Ethnic Entrepreneurs Different Entrepreneurs? A Study about Social Capital of Pakistani and German Businessmen.

Nov 2005

Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH), AK "Industriegeographie", Eschwege, Germany
Topic: Ethnic Entrepreneurship - Different Behaviour?
   
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