B. (Başak) Bilecen, Prof

2024 - 2028 Co-PI 'Prominent Reduction of loneliness among Older Migrants through Interventions and Social Engagement (PROMISE)' in collaboration with NIDI. Funded by NWO (Dutch Research Council).

2023 - 2027 PI 'Do Migrants in Europe Age Well? A Mixed-Methods and Intervention Study in Four Countries (MIG-AGE) Project' in collaboration with Universities of Bamberg, Koc, and Genoa. Funded by Volkswagen Foundation.

2022 PI 'Understanding Refugee-Led Organizations: A Social Network Study'. Funded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

2017 – 2018 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 'Personal networks of Chinese international students: A structural and comparative analysis'. Funded by German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD).

2016 – 2019 Senior Researcher, ‘Asian Educational Mobilities: A Comparative Study of International Migration of Japanese and Chinese Higher Education Students’ International Collaborative Research Project Bielefeld University, Germany, Essex University, the UK and Kyoto University, Japan. Funded by German Research Foundation (DFG), The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 

2015 – 2018 Senior Researcher, ‘Bright Futures: A Comparative Study of Internal and International Mobility of Chinese Students’, International Collaborative Research Project Bielefeld University, Germany, Essex University, the UK, and University of Tsinghua, China. Funded by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), German Research Foundation (DFG) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

2011 – 2015 Post-doctoral Researcher, ‘Transnationality, the Distribution of Social Protection and Inequalities’, SFB 882, International Collaborative Research Project together with Turkey, Poland and Kazakhstan, Bielefeld University, Germany under the framework of Collaborative Research Center 882. Funded by German Research Foundation (DFG).