Prof. Dr. Jacco van Sterkenburg is Associate Professor and Endowed Chair of ‘Race, Inclusion and Communication’ at the Erasmus Research Institute for Media, Culture, History and Society at Erasmus University Rotterdam. With over 25 years of research experience, he explores race, football, media, and belonging, bridging academic insights with policy and partnerships across sport and society.

Dr. Arne van Lienden is an Assistant professor at the Erasmus Research Institute for Media, Culture, History and Society at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work explores inclusion and exclusion in sport and sport media, with a focus on race, gender, and representation across Europe. He combines media analysis, interviews, and fieldwork to uncover the structural dynamics shaping these issues.

Carmen Longas Luque is a Postdoc researcher and lecturer at the Erasmus Research Institute for Media, Culture, History and Society at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research investigates how discourses of race and ethnicity influence televised football, examining the relationship between production practices, media content, and how audiences respond. This project is part of the NWO-funded research initiative How racist is televised football and do audiences react? (2018-2024), supervised by prof. dr. Jacco van Sterkenburg (promotor) and Dr. Melodine Sommier (co-promotor). She is also currently exploring the area of e-sports and inclusionary and exclusionary practices in that space (2025-26).

Carmen holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2014) and a research master’s degree in Behavioural Science from Radboud University Nijmegen (2018). In her master’s thesis, she examined how teachers' attitudes toward students from ethnic minority backgrounds influence their culturally responsive teaching practices, highlighting her longstanding interest in race, representation, and institutional dynamics.

Lis Camelia is a PhD candidate at the department of Media and communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has a background in media studies. She currently explores the role of sport narratives in the negotiations of belonging within diverse (Dutch) cities.  Particularly through the lens of locality, diverse cities and post-colonial theory.

Palesa Mashigo is a PhD researcher and lecturer at Erasmus University’s Media and Communication Department. With a background in journalism, her research focuses on race, racism, and inclusion in professional European football. Her work connects empirical research with institutional and policy-level analysis, aiming to uncover how exclusionary practices are maintained in football cultures.

Jasmin Seijbel is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Erasmus School of History Culture and Communication. With a backround in anthropology and history her research focuses on sport, media and discrimination. Her doctoral research examines how antisemitic rhetoric, symbolism, and hate speech are normalised in Dutch professional men’s football fandom.

Rens Cremers is an external PhD candidate researching racism and discrimination in football. As an interdisciplinary social scientist, his work focuses on how social inequality plays out in and through sport. He is a researcher at the Mulier Institute, investigating issues of inclusion, exclusion, and social safety related to ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity within sports cultures.

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Anastasia Chatzina is a research intern at PRISM, developing the website and communication of ongoing projects. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in International Bachelor Communication and Media (IBCoM) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her academic and professional interests lie in the intersections of media, sports, and organizational learning.