Ingrid is an Associate Professor at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. Ingrid’s research is based in the fields of environmental change, mobilities, and governance, with a focus on the topic of environmental/climate change-related migration/mobility, focused on different regions around the world. She has been awarded a personal grant (VENI, NWO) to study environmental migration in the digital age (ended June 2021), and a Vidi grant that examines climate change-related mobility in the borderlands (start Feb 2022), which include 3 PhD projects.

Ingrid works on the subject of climate change and human mobility since 2007, studied from the angles of political science, human geography, and sociology, and has over 30 publications on this topic. She holds a PhD in International Relations, obtained at the University of Kent (UK) in February 2014, on the securitisation of climate migration, funded by the UK Economic Social Research Council. Ingrid has been a visiting fellow with the United Nations University – Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, Tokyo (2014); the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (2016/17); and with the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute, Florence(2020) with the Migration Policy Centre (EUI, Florance) in 2021. She is furthermore a research fellow with the Earth System Governance Network and the Anthropocene Mobilities network; member of the scientific steering committee of the PERN network; permanent member of the Management Committee of the EU COST ACTION on climate change and migration which ran from 2011-2015 and the ongoing action on Drylands facing change; and serves as an expert on environmental migration for the EU, the Dutch Government, the UN and for several NGOs. She also co-chaired the international conference on ‘Disclosing Sustainability’ held at Wageningen University (June 2016), for which she led the theme on ‘citizens and transparency’, and chaired a symposium on the nexus between environmental change and mobilities in June 2019 at Wageningen University.

Contact at ingrid.boas(at)wur.nl

For a full and updated list of publications see google scholar

1)Veni project: Environmentally-related migration in the digital age. https://www.wur.nl/en/project/Veni-Project-Environmentally-related-migration-in-the-digital-age-.htm

2) KNAW/CAS project: E-participation in risk governance in urban coastal China https://www.wur.nl/en/project/Reflexive-environmental-risk-governance-of-coastal-urban-centres-in-China-the-role-of-e-participation-.htm