Billede af Michelle Pace
  • Universitetsvej 1, 25.1

    DK-4000 Roskilde

    Danmark

Personlig profil

Forskning

Danish Lead Partner on SIRIUS EU H2020 project (Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets. 2018 -  2020)

Danish Lead Partner in EUMENIA Jean Monnet Network www.eumenia.eu

Co-PI on Wellcome Trust project on Gaza: The spatio-politics of health, death and life (with Prof. Haim Yacobi, UCL)

Middle East Studies Forum (MESF) Associate Member, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

Principal Investigator on large FACE grant project on Syrian refugee minors in Denmark and Lebanon (successfully completed November 2017) 

Principal Investigator on Carlsberg Foundation project on "State-less"- society relations in the West Bank (successfully completed December 2017)  

Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham, School of Government and Society, College of Social Sciences 

Co-editor of the peer reviewed journal Mediterranean Politics

Winner of the 2015 and 2016 Golden Coffee Cup Roskilde University award for best supervisor.

Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Arab Transitions project: http://arabtrans.eu/ .

External advisor/evaluator for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark (on Palestine, Danish-Arab Dialogue)

Member of an assessment committee: Fund for Academic Cooperation and Exchange (FACE) which supports academic cooperation between Denmark and the Middle East and North African region 

Academic Fellow, European Policy Centre (EPC, Brussels) 

Expert: European Commission H2020 experts portal

 

See my personal video presentation on my main research areas: European-Middle East and North African relations; democracy and de-democratisation studies, human rights, liminality, emotions in international relations, performativity, migration studies, celebrity politicians, memory studies, interdisciplinarity.

Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. She is also Honorary Professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK. She has been PI on a Carlsberg Foundation funded project on "The Struggle of State-Building in Palestine: Exploring "State-less"-Society  Relations in the West Bank" and also a PI on a large FACE/DAPP/Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark funded project entitled "Change in exile: Re-invigorating principles of reform and social stability amongst young Syrian refugees in Denmark and Lebanon" (http://face-programme.dk/index.html). She is currently the Danish partner lead on an H2020 EU project SIRIUS (Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets, 2018-2020) http://www.sirius-project.eu/ as well as the EUMENIA Jean Monnet network http://www.eumenia.eu/ and a Wellcome Trust project on power, violence and health in Gaza (with Prof Haim Yacobi of University College London).  

Her research areas of interest include: migration/refugee studies, liminality, ethnographic research, memory studies, emotions in IR, human rights, identity politics, perceptions of democratisation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the development of the public sphere in the MENA region since the Arab “Uprisings”, de-democratisation, governance and pluralism in the Middle East, Egypt, Palestine. Projects she was PI on while she was at Birmingham University include a British Academy funded project on A ‘Modern’ Islamist Democracy? Perceptions of democratization in the Arab-Mediterranean world and an ESRC funded project on Paradoxes and Contradictions in EU democracy promotion efforts in the Middle East. She has supervised a study of the Danish Arab Partnership Programme and was the academic evaluator on the Danish engagement in Palestine.

She has been a co-editor of the peer reviewed journal Mediterranean Politics and is now an active member of its editorial board. She was founder and convener of the British International Studies Association Working Group on International Mediterranean Studies (until 2013) and of the research group on the EU and democracy promotion efforts in the Middle East (2008 – to date). She is a member of the Global Political Sociology research group at ISE, Roskilde University.

 

Eksterne ansættelser

External Examiner, University of Malta

1 sep. 201330 apr. 2018

External Examiner, University of Warwick

1 sep. 201330 sep. 2018

External Examiner, London School of Economics and Political Science

1 sep. 20121 sep. 2015

Emneord

  • Filosofi, Idéhistorie, Religion

Publikationsnetværk

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  • SHAPEDEM-EU: SHAPEDEM-EU Horizon Europe: EU Democracy Support in its Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods

    Pace, M. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Huber, D. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Korosteleva-Polglase, E. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Makdisi, K. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Soler, E. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Ghali, A. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Bahout, J. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Mouawad, J. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Colombo, S. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Balfour, R. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Youngs, C. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Mikhelidze, N. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Lledo, E. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Gora, M. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Haardt, J. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Konrad, L. E. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Gawrich, A. (Projektkoordinator), Schnoppner, F. A. (Projektkoordinator), Koubaa, M. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Utgés Serra , M. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Kurukulasuriya , L. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Osypchuk , A. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Haran, O. (Projektsamarbejdspartner), Yerashevich, N. (Projektsamarbejdspartner) & Achrainer, C. (Projektdeltager)

    01/10/202230/09/2025

    Projekter: ProjektForskning

  • Gaza: Making the Invisible Visible: Slow Violence, Mental Health and Resilience in Gaza

    Pace, M. (Projektkoordinator), Yacobi, H. (Projektkoordinator), Abu Jamei, Y. (Projektkoordinator) & Attiya Abu Mustafa, Z. (Projektkoordinator)

    01/09/202230/06/2023

    Projekter: ProjektForskning

  • Youth: Everyday Experiences of Migration

    Pace, M. (Projektdeltager) & Fathi, M. (Projektleder)

    01/09/201931/08/2020

    Projekter: ProjektForskning

  • Gaza: Gaza: The spatio-politics of health, death and life

    Pace, M. (Projektdeltager) & Yacobi, H. (Projektdeltager)

    01/07/201930/06/2021

    Projekter: ProjektForskning

  • EUMENIA: EU Middle East Network In Action

    Pace, M. (Projektdeltager), Bouris, D. (Projektkoordinator), Isleyen, B. (Projektdeltager), Huber, D. (Projektdeltager) & Barghouti, K. (Projektdeltager)

    01/09/201831/08/2022

    Projekter: ProjektForskning