Dr. Asya Pisarevskaya
Asya Pisarevskaya is the Assistant Professor of Migration and Diversity Governance. She is managing coordinator of this master programme. The GMD programme, she teaches the course Governance of Migration and Diversity and Designing Migration Policy Research, also she supervises master theses. Her research focuses on migration-related diversities and governance of migrant inclusion and anti-discrimination in European cities. In her work she often adopts a comparative perspective, and employs both qualitative and quantitative methodology, as well as the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Her wider research interests lie in the comparative analysis of policies and practices for migrant inclusion.
Dr. Maria Schiller
Maria Schiller is Associate Professor of Public Policy, Migration and Diversity at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Managing Director of the LDE Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity. She is Theme Leader for “Inclusive Cities and Diversity,” Chair of the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Migration Politics and Governance, and Faculty Diversity Officer at ESSB.
She teaches Politics of Migration and Diversity and Comparative Public Policies in the GMD Master’s and supervises MA theses. Her research focuses on local and regional migration policymaking, policy implementation, street-level bureaucrats, and governance networks, using qualitative and comparative approaches across European contexts.
Prof. dr. Peter Scholten
Peter Scholten is full professor of Governance of Migration & Diversity at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on amongst others on the governance of migration and migration-related diversity, multi-level governance, comparative public policy, and the relationship between science and politics in the field of migration. Peter is director of IMISCOE, Europe’s largest academic research network on migration, integration and social cohesion. In this master, Peter Scholten teaches Politics of Migration and Diversity course. He is one of the co-founders of this MSc programme Governance of Migration and Diversity and scientific coordinator of the LDE Research Center on the Governance of Migration and Diversity.
Dr. Warda Belabas
Warda Belabas is an Assistant Professor in the Governance and Pluralism team at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Within this master programme, Warda Belabas teacher the course Media and Governance. Her research focuses on urban governance, institutional trust, and inclusive public service delivery in superdiverse contexts. She examines how interactions between citizens and public institutions shape processes of inclusion, legitimacy, and participation, with particular attention to migration, co-creation, and government communication. Her work has been published in journals such as Administration & Society, Local Government Studies, Cities, and Urban Sustainability, and she addresses topics including co-creation in urban governance, trust in local government, and the challenges of inclusive policymaking in diverse cities.
Dr. Mark van Ostaijen
Mark van Ostaijen is as Associate Professor affiliated to the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS/ ESSB) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a VIDI grant recipient (2025) on Project ICONIC to conduct international comparative research on the decision-making of ‘street-level workers’ in superdiverse neighbourhoods in Malmö, Aarhus, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Marseille and Bilbao. Within this master programme, he supervises master theses.
He previously worked as Managing Director of the LDE Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity and at Tilburg University, for which he conducted ethnographic fieldwork on how 'smart urban intermediaries' make a difference in neighbourhoods of Amsterdam, Glasgow, Birmingham and Copenhagen.