Director of Research
Dr. Calum T.M. Nicholson read Social Anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was awarded an MPhil in Migration Studies from St Antony's College, Oxford. He holds a doctorate in Human Geography. He was most recently the Director of the Climate Policy Institute, and has served as a Visiting Fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium since 2021. He also continues to teach courses on international migration, international development, and the impact of social media at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. In 2023, his edited volume, Climate Migration: critical perspectives for law, policy, and research, was published by Hart: Bloomsbury. His research interests encompass the role of science in society, political polarisation, and international interventions.
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In 2025, the Liszt Institute Brussels, in cooperation with the Budapest-based Danube Institute, will inaugurate the Danube Dialogues, a series of high-level professional lectures and discussions.
The first edition will take place on 2 December 2025, featuring Dr Calum T. M. Nicholson, Director of Research at the Danube Institute, as the keynote speaker. The series will continue in 2026 with further instalments, each focusing on topics of enduring significance and international relevance through the insights of distinguished experts.
Dr. Calum T. M. Nicholson
Danube Institute
Mission statement
The Danube Institute was established by the Batthyány Lajos Foundation in 2013 in Budapest, with the aim of encouraging the transmission of ideas and people within the countries of Central Europe and between Central Europe, other parts of Europe, and the English-speaking world.
The Institute itself has been committed from its foundation to three philosophical loyalties: a respectful conservatism in cultural, religious, and social life, the broad classical liberal tradition in economics, and a realistic Atlanticism in national security policy. These ideals remain our lodestars.