DESIRE also serves as an important focal point of incoming scholars on senior, postdoctoral and predoctoral level. The following research visits have taken place so far.

Giorgos Katsambekis

Home university: Loughborough University 
Time of stay: 10 - 16 December 2017
Activities during stay: 

Joan MirÓ

Home university: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
​Time of stay: March - June 2018
Activities during stay: 

​Marie Tuley

Home university: University of Sussex
Time of stay: September 2018 - August 2019
Activities during stay: 

Omran Shroufi

Home university: University of York
Time of stay: January 2020 - September 2022
Activities during stay:

• Presented draft journal article, ‘Populists talking about Populism’ at DESIRE seminar no. 11, 6 May 2020 (Co-written by Benjamin De Cleen).
• Presented Paper with Benjamin De Cleen, ‘German New Right Discourse about Populism’, 71st PSA Annual International Conference, University of Belfast, 30 March 2021.    
• Presented PhD chapter, ‘AfD’s Position towards Israel/Palestine in the 19th Bundestag’, DESIRE seminar no. 14, 15 December 2021.
• Presented draft journal article, ‘The emergence of the pro-Israel European Far Right’ at DESIRE seminar no. 19, 26 June 2022.
• Presented Paper, ‘Far-Right Intellectual Discourse About Populism: A German Case Study and Some Future Avenues for Research’, 6th Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop, University of Brighton, 23 September 2023.

Results of stay: 

• Published article, ‘Far-right intellectual discourse about populism’ - co-written by Benjamin De Cleen – in Journal of Political Ideologies in 2021.
• In close cooperation with Benjamin De Cleen, finalised PhD thesis and passed with no corrections in January 2023.
• Worked on and submitted forthcoming book chapter, ‘What the far right is(n’t)’ for the edited book, ‘The ethics of researching the Far Right’.

Seongcheol Kim

Home university: University of Kassel
Time of stay: 15 - 26 November 2021
Activities during stay:

• Presented draft journal article, ‘Between Autonomy and Representation: Toward a Post-Foundational Discourse Analytic Framework for the Study of Horizontality and Verticality’, at DESIRE seminar no. 13, 24 November 2021.
• Presented draft book chapter, ‘Report on trade unions and workplace representation in Belgium’, at DESIRE seminar no. 13, 24 November 2021.
• Conducted interviews with Flemish trade unions and did expert interview with Benjamin De Cleen.

Results of stay:

• Integrated feedback from DESIRE seminar, eventually published research article, ‘Between Autonomy and Representation: Toward a Post-Foundational Discourse Analytic Framework for the Study of Horizontality and Verticality’ in journal of Critical Discourse Studies in 2022.
• Integrating feedback from DESIRE seminar, eventually published book, ‘The Far Right in the Workplace’, co-written by Samuel Greef and Wolfgang Schroeder.

Samuel Bennett

Home university: Adam Mickiewicz University
Time of stay: 26 - 28 April 2022
Activities during stay:

• Presented draft journal article, ‘Booing as ‘not racism’: Soft hate speech, racism and free speech at Euro 2020’, at DESIRE seminar no. 17, 27 April 2022.
• Joint DESIRE-ECHO Guest lecture, ‘Doing Qualitative (Discourse) Analysis on Twitter’, 28 April 2022.
• Led PhD Masterclass, ‘Using Digital Methods to research online discourse’, 28 April 2022.​

Archibald Gustin

Home university: Université de Liège
​Time of stay: March - June 2022
Avtivities during stay: 

• Presented PhD chapter, ‘A study of the mainstreaming strategy of far-right parties through the prism of their gender politics’, DESIRE seminar no. 16, 23 March 2022.
• Presented PhD Chapter, ‘Revisiting the articulation of nationalism and populism through a gender approach of far-right discourses. The case of the Vlaams Belang’, DESIRE seminar no. 19, 29 June 2022.

Results of stay:

• Research stay resulted in joint PhD with the Université de Liège from academic year 2022-2023.

Jorge Ramos-Gonzalez

Home uiniversity: University of Salamanca
Time of stay: March - May 2023
Activities during stay: 

• Participated in PhD Masterclass with Yannis Stavrakakis prior to Discourse Theory: Ways Forward, 2nd Edition conference.
• Participated in Discourse Theory: Ways Forward, 2nd Edition conference. Brussels, 22 March 2023.
• Finalized draft article ‘Sorel’s theory of myth and its influence on Laclau’s theory of populism’.