About
Dr. Aida Ibričević is a political scientist and migration researcher. As a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Division of Migration, Ethnicity, and Society (REMESO) at Linkoping University, Sweden, and a Global Fellow at the PRIO Migration Center, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway, Ibričević brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her academic research and her research consulting practice.
Her upcoming book, entitled “Decided return migration: Emotions, citizenship, home and belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” promises to offer a new conceptual understanding to the field of return migration. The book is under review and will be published as part of the IMISCOE/Springer Research Series. Her winning book proposal has secured open access publication and, as a result, the book will be available to a variety of audiences.
Ibričević’s extensive research consulting experience includes working as a Senior Researcher for various international development organizations, institutes, and civil society organizations, such as the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), ODI, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)–Diaspora for Development Project, the Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC), and the Network for Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Aida’s academic credentials include a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Middlebury College in the United States, a Master of Arts in Economics from Central European University (CEU) in Hungary, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey. Her academic achievements have been recognized through many awards, including fellowships from the Open Society Foundations, the French Government, and the Norwegian Research Council (SAMEVAL). Her Postdoctoral Researcher position at Linkoping University is funded by the European Commission, within HORIZON Europe, as part of the MORE Project: “Motivations, experiences, and consequences of returns and readmission policy: revealing and developing effective alternatives” coordinated by the University of Barcelona, Spain.
She is proud of her “BiH Diaspora Discussions,” a blogging space devoted to contextualizing contemporary academic and policy debates within the realities of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora. As a blogger, she tries her best to put her journalistic training to good use. Aida has earned a joint postgraduate degree in Journalism from the École supérieure de journalism in Lille, France (ESJ Lille), and the Mediaplan Institute in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is a native speaker of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian with high-level written and spoken proficiency in Turkish, French, and Italian. Aida is learning Swedish, her sixth language.
Services
- Research Design
- Data Collection (surveys, interviews, focus groups)
- Data Analysis (quantitative and qualitative)
- Research Reporting
- Writing (scholarly, policy-oriented, journalistic)
- Speaking, Moderating, and Facilitating
- Teaching and Training