Jessica Hagen-Zanker is an External Associate at PRIO.
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Jessica Hagen-Zanker
PRIO Global Fellow
Additional positions:
Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
News
Monday, 12 Sep 2022
Early-Career Scholars Learn Survey Methods in Migration Research
Survey-based research is widespread but also replete with challenges. Researchers face a range of analytical, technical, managerial, and ethical dilemmas. Drawing on extensive experience, Research Professor Jørgen Carling and PRIO Global Fellow Jessica Hagen-Zanker have developed a new PhD-level course on survey methods, with a focus on migration research.
The course was taught in Oslo 7–9 September and covered the entire survey process, including research design, technical solutions, data management, quality assurance and communication of results. It drew upon ongoing survey research in the MIGNEX and FUMI projects.
Dr Jessica Hagen-Zanker is a Senior Research Fellow at ODI, leading the institute's migration research. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from Maastricht University. Jessica's research focused on understanding how migration, economic and social policies affect migrant decision-making, impacts of migration on migrants and their families and the interlinkages between migration and social protection, drawing on mixed methods and covering a diverse range of countries, including Albania, Ethiopia and Nepal.
Jessica closely collaborates with PRIO on the EC funded five-year MIGNEX project which seeks to contribute to more effective and coherent migration management through evidence-based understanding of the linkages between development and migration. Jessica leads on the survey of 12,500 respondents, as well as the impact maximisation work package.
Latest publications
All publications
Inside the ‘efficacy gap’: Migration policy and the dynamics of encounter
Journal Article in International Migration
Migration decision-making
Book Chapter in Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies
Migration and development dynamics in São Nicolau, Cabo Verde
Report - External Series
Migration and development dynamics in Redeyef, Tunisia
Report - External Series
What Do We Know about the Subjective and Intangible Factors That Shape Migration Decision-Making?
PRIO Paper
Survey data collection
Report - Other
Communications and impact
Report - Other
Data management plan
Report - Other
Latest news
Early-Career Scholars Learn Survey Methods in Migration Research
Survey-based research is widespread but also replete with challenges. Researchers face a range of analytical, technical, managerial, and ethical dilemmas. Drawing on extensive experience, Research Professor Jørgen Carling and PRIO Global Fellow Jessica Hagen-Zanker have developed a new PhD-level course on survey methods, with a focus on migration research.
The course was taught in Oslo 7–9 September and covered the entire survey process, including research design, technical solutions, data management, quality assurance and communication of results. It drew upon ongoing survey research in the MIGNEX and FUMI projects.
New PhD-Level Course: Survey Methods in Migration Research
PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in September 2022. The application deadline is 10 June.
Migration-Related PhD Courses
Three migration-related PhD courses will be offered at PRIO in the course of 2022: (1) Migration theory: perspectives on time and temporalities, (2) Survey methods in migration research: design, implementation, and analysis, and (3) Ethnographic fieldwork methodology: approaches, tools, and ethics.
Charting the invisible influences on migration
Migration decision-making is shaped by myriad unobservable and intangible factors, including personality traits, emotions, beliefs and values. These have long been overshadowed by economic factors in migration research but are increasingly gaining attention. A new PRIO paper takes stock of the evidence on how these factors matter.
PRIO Welcomes New Global Fellows
PRIO welcomes seven new researchers to the PRIO Global Fellows Programme. Fellowships are awarded to a diverse group of international academics from different academical backgrounds. Global Fellows have distinguished themselves through a strong record of academical contribution and are awarded the fellowship following the nomination by PRIO staff.
