This project addresses one of the most important and controversial issues in the European Union today: the social rights of EU citizens from the new EU member states who move to live and/or work in the old member state. Empirically, the project traces the migration of regularly and irregularly employed migrants and their family members, and their social security rights between Hungary and Austria. It assesses what the social rights of mobile citizens are in policy and in practice; how mobile EU citizens experience, organise and manage their welfare transnationally; and what the consequences are, for the patterning of inequality among EU citizens. Conceptually, the project brings together work on transnational migration, and on the portability of social security rights across national borders, in order to develop a typology of transnational portability regimes. First, the project assesses the legal regulations and policy regime on social security rights. Second, it evaluates how mobile EU citizens practice portability, generating data from an original questionnaire survey. Third, the project reconstructs discourses of belonging which are incorporated into portability regulations, in order to determine how they shape individuals? access to social security. Fourth, it provides insights into individuals? inequality experiences resulting from limitations to portability, using strategies of qualitative research.

How do dominant and marginalized groups differ in their communication surrounding identity politics? How does their communication affect access to public debate and persuasiveness toward the public? As politics is increasingly discussed using identity groups explicitly (e.g., based on gender or ethnicity), these questions are essential for a healthy democracy. Unfortunately, challenges surrounding measurement of emotions in video and social desirability hinder progress in this field. Using innovative automated emotion recognition from facial expression and voice, and novel physiological measurement of emotion, this project investigates the media’s democratic functioning and avenues for progress in journalism and society.

A large-scale reorganization of stone technology took place in South Africa between 50 and 20,000 years ago. The exact technological developments vary in time and space, suggesting that different groups settled on different solutions ,but across the subcontinent societies converge on some common solutions: - Miniaturization of stone tools - Increasing emphasis on local resources - (Much) less investment in carefully shaped implements Through excavations at Umhlatuzana we show that the reorganization was the result of in situ developments, rather than the entry of a new population group, as previously suggested.

Statistics are fundamental in the social sciences. Statistics underlie the description of relationships, tests of hypotheses, and serve as input for meta-analyses. Yet, statistics are often reported incorrectly and incompletely. tidystats, a reference manager for statistics, is a solution to help researchers improve how they report statistics. Similar to how reference managers are used to report citations, researchers can use tidystats to easily export and archive statistics, and dynamically insert their statistics into text editing software. This enables researchers to share and report all statistics from the many analyses they conduct, reproducibly and without error.

Inner-city neighbourhoods are charged with the double task of nurturing creative socio-economic places yielding new practices of wealth creation, and of lessening social polarisation by constituting places of social and ethnic integration. Building on assemblage theory, this project adopts an thoroughly interdisciplinary approach to understand how different social, economic and spatial processes coalesce in shaping neighbourhoods including their problems and potentials. It thus seeks to bridge economically and culturally oriented perspectives in a novel and fruitful way. The project will benefit, in particular, from the different stands of work focusing on gentrification. A core thesis is, that, despite many critiques, gentrification remains an important strategic concept, which, if well elaborated and supported, can infuse new approaches towards neighbourhood development improving vital social, economic and spatial qualities. The project uses mixed methods to zoom in onto recent developments in, and the development prospects of five inner-city neighbourhoods across Europe.