Laura Ogden (L.J.)

Global Citizenship Education @ Global Studies

Along with colleagues Dr. Joris Boonen, Kevin Fuchs and Rikus van Eeden, I implemented a Learning & Innovation Grant for the project, 'A full-cycle approach to Global Citizenship Education in international study projects', in which we explored the role of pre-departure training and post-arrival consolidation of Global Citizenship Education among third-year Bachelor of Global Studies students at Maastricht University (UM).

As follow-up to this research, I am collaborating with Dr. Joris Boonen to develop a questionnaire on students' ideals and self-assessments of global citizenship norms.

Mobility Trajectories of Young Lives (MO-TRAYL)

My PhD thesis, Transnational Youth Mobility Trajectories: An ethnography of young people with a migration background between Ghana and Germany, was part of the MO-TRAYL project, funded by the European Research Council and led by Prof. Valentina Mazzucato.

I conducted 14 months of multi-sited, mobile ethnographic fieldwork with young people of Ghanaian background in Hamburg (Germany) and Ghana.

The objective of MO-TRAYL was to develop a better understanding of the relationship between migration and young people’s life chances, by studying the mobility and educational trajectories of young people growing up between Ghana, The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. See motrayl.com for more details.