NWO XS Grant awarded to Posthumus fellow Swantje Falcke

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Swantje Falcke, Posthumus fellow, currently affiliated with the Department of History at Utrecht University, an XS Grant for the project ‘Environmental change and migration patterns in the Netherlands: A long term view’.

Swantje’s project investigates the long-term relationship between environmental change and migration in the Netherlands from 1812 to 2023. The central question to the project is who migrates in response to environmental change, and why. A comprehensive dataset will be created combining information on various environmental changes with individual-level migration data. Migration patterns in response to sudden and gradual environmental shifts will be analysed, taking into account socioeconomic and institutional changes over time. The findings aim to inform policy interventions to protect vulnerable populations and advance the academic understanding of environmental migration.

The N.W. Posthumus Institute staff congratulates Swantje with this award!