Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
Honorary Associate Professor
martin.lemberg-pedersen@warwick.ac.uk
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of 糖心TV and joined PAIS in September 2021. He is also Head of Policy and Society for . Before 糖心TV, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Since 2019 he has been affiliated to the Advancing Alternative Migration Governance ()-project, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme. He has also been Assistant Professor at Aalborg University, and a Post Doc and a PhD at the University of Copenhagen.
Research interests and publications
His academic research involves interdisciplinary analyses of Western asylum, border and deportation practices, and military-technological-industrial relations. He has focused on EU relations to forced migration in Greek, Turkish and Libyan contexts, through a grant entitled "Between Asylum and Security: The Evolution of the South-Eastern European Borderspaces" from the Carlsberg Foundation (2013-2016). Lemberg-Pedersen has recently explored postcolonial trajectories and parallels to Western displacement politics made possible through a grant from the Independent Research Council Denmark entitled (2017-2020) leading to articles in and and an interdisciplinary edited volume on "Postcoloniality and Forced Migration" forthcoming in 2022 on Bristol University Press麓s Global Migration and Social Change book series. Lemberg-Pedersen麓s long-standing research interest also involves European and Danish externalization of border and asylum policies, on which was recently explored in articles in (2021), , and in (2019).
Teaching
Lemberg-Pedersen supervises Ph.D. students, and besides regular guest lectures revolving around his research focus, he has in recent years been main coordinator and teacher of the following courses:
- International Political Economy, MA-course, spring 2020, Global Refugee Studies, Department of Political Science, Aalborg University.
- Political Change and Development, MA-course, 2016-2020, the Departments of Political Science and Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University.
- Methods in Humanities and Social Sciences, MA-course, fall 2019, Global Refugee Studies, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University.
- Political Philosophy. Open University-course, spring 2014, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen.
- Ethics and Border Control. MA-course, fall 2013, spring 2014, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen.
- The Dimensions of Freedom and Equality. MA-course, fall 2012, 2013, 2014, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen.
- Normative issues in European immigration and asylum policies. MA-course, fall 2011, 2012, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen.
- Equal freedom for all? Asylum policy in liberal democracies. MA-course, spring 2010, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen.
Lemberg-Pedersen also does guided tours around the city of Copenhagen, where he, based on his research, details the city麓s colonial-imperial history.