Biography
Mark M.A.C. van Ostaijen is as Assistant Professor affiliated to the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS/ ESSB) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He works as Managing Director of the LDE Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity and is participating in the European University of Post-Industrial Cities.
In his previous research project at Tilburg University, SmartUrbI, he conducted etnographic fieldwork on how 'smart urban intermediaries' make a difference in neighborhoods of Amsterdam, Glasgow, Birmingham and Copenhagen. Before he started at Tilburg University, Mark worked as lecturer and PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and at the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB).
In 2013 (together with prof. dr. Godfried Engbersen and prof. dr. Peter Scholten) he received a NWO Urban Europe Research Grant on the research project ‘IMAGINATION’ which resulted in his PhD dissertation 'Worlds between words', awarded as ‘Best PhD thesis’ by the Erasmus Graduate School.
During his PhD research he was one of the founders and chairman of the IMISCOE PhD network, an Organizing Committee Member of the Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) conference in Leicester (UK) and a visiting doctoral research fellow at De Montfort University (UK).
Recently, he published a Dutch book ‘Wij zijn ons. Een kleine sociologie van grote denkers’ (Vantilt / Boom, 3th edition), (see here for coverage at NRC, Volkskrant, ND and VN) a Committee Member of the Colloquium Critical and Interpretive Public Administration at the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG), editor of Beleid & Maatschappij and columnist for Sociologie Magazine.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- vanostaijen@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Mark van Ostaijen (2023) - Hoe Dingen Mensen Maken En Andersom - Tijdschrift Sociologie, 4 - [link]
- C Hochstenbach & Mark van Ostaijen (2023) - Inleiding: De ervaring van klassenmigratie als kritiek op de meritocratie. - Beleid & Maatschappij, 50 (3), 166 - [link]
- Mark van Ostaijen & Annika Agger (2023) - Navigating networks–to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen - European Planning Studies, 31 (6), 1203-1225 - doi: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2109937 - [link]
- Catherine Durose, Mark van Ostaijen, Merlijn van Hulst, Oliver Escobar & Annika Agger (2022) - Working the urban assemblage: A transnational study of transforming practices - Urban Studies, 59 (10), 2129-2146 - doi: 10.1177/00420980211031431 - [link]
- Mark van Ostaijen & Shivant Jhagroe (2022) - Making Public Administration great again - Policy Design and Practice, 5 (3), 261-275 - doi: 10.1080/25741292.2022.2101258 - [link]
- Mark van Ostaijen (2022) - Een eeuwige voorwaardelijkheid - De Groene Amsterdammer, 11 - [link]
- Mark van Ostaijen (2022) - Deborah Stone: Counting - Public Administration Review, 82 (2)
- Reinout Kleinhans, Mark van Ostaijen & Kimberly Seibel (2022) - De migratiesamenleving: Migratie en diversiteit als gordiaanse knoop - [link]
- Mark van Ostaijen (2022) - Wat we vertellen door hoe we tellen - Beleid & Maatschappij
- Thea Hilhorst, J (Jorrit) Rijpma, Simona Vezolli, Lhamo Meyer & Mark van Ostaijen (2021) - Factsheet opvang in de regio: Een vergelijkende studie - [link]
- Mark van Ostaijen, Laura Westerveen & Susanne Janssen (2023) - Doing Diversity Lab (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Mark van Ostaijen (2022) - Robert Putnam (Host)
Activity: Hosting an academic visitor › Academic - Maria Schiller, Isabel Awad Cherit, Mark van Ostaijen & Jiska Engelbert (2022) - Societal impact after the hype: Unpacking experiences in diversity and inclusion research (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
- Mark van Ostaijen (2018) - Best PhD Thesis
De Volkskrant
- Start date approval
- January 2024
- End date approval
- December 2024
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- column
1.2C Sociologie
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWB-1020
3.2 Political Philosophy and Democracy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-B3020
4.4 Thesis Research
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWGMD0020
1.1C Sociology 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-BC1020
4.3 Designing Migration Policy Research
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWGMD0032
3.2 Political Philosophy and Democracy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-C3020