Yorkshire and Humber migration research network members
This is a list of network members who are engaged in migration research in the Yorkshire and Humber region, and have agreed to publicly share their details. Clicking on a name will take you to further details about that person. This page can also be used to post members' latest news or updates that may be of interest to the network as a whole - please email us with relevant details.
Alice Richardson
PhD candidate, University of York
Relevant research interests: asylum and legal linguistics, interpreting in the asylum process, language as evidence.
Aneta Piekut
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences, Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield
Relevant research interests: ethnic diversity, socio-spatial segregation and social cohesion, attitudes towards immigration and ethnic minorities, including their measurement and the problem of survey nonresponse.
Beth Porter
PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield
Relevant research interests: Migration, border externalisation, historical sociology, postcolonialism, decolonisation and methodological challenges in doing migration research.
Chris Forde
Professor of Employment Studies, University of Leeds
Relevant research interests: Migration, the experiences of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, human resource management, employment relations.
Deema Refai
Associate Professor in Enterprise and entrepreneurship, University of Leeds
Relevant research interests: Constrained entrepreneurship, with a particular interest in the refugee context.
Denis Kierans
Senior Researcher, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford
Relevant research interests: Integration, migration, knowledge exchange, public attitudes, capacity building, data, policy.
Divine Charura
Professor of Counselling Psychology, York St John University
Relevant research interests: Research in psychotherapy, trauma exposure and impact across the lifespan, psychotraumatology, trauma in refugee and asylum seeker populations, potential consequences of trauma such as PTSD or Complex PTSD, resilience.
Fiona Howlett
Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy and Doctoral student, York St John University
Relevant research interests: Value and meaning of creative activity groups with asylum seekers and refugees; value and meaning of a community allotment working alongside asylum seekers and refugees; students as co researchers working alongside asylum seekers and refugees.
Gabriella Alberti
Associate professor Work and Employment Relations, University of Leeds Business School
Relevant research interests: My research interests revolve around questions of migrant precariousness and the effects of migration policies on work and employment relations. I have been involved in action research on the local integration of migrants from different backgrounds.
Gary Craig
Professor of Social justice, York Workshops
Relevant research interests: ‘Race’, ethnicity, modern slavery, refugees, migration.
Haleemah Alaydi
PhD candidate, University of York
Relevant research interests: Refugees, refugee fiction, asylum seekers, migration, exile, Palestine, diaspora from the Middle East, postcolonial studies, Arab world.
Isabel Arce Zelada
PhD candidate, University of Hull
Relevant research interests: Asylum, refugeehood, anthropology, co-production, creative methodologies, Indigeneity, coloniality/colonialism, critical border studies.
Jacqui Broadhead
Director, Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Relevant research interests: Inclusion and integration at the local level, refugee resettlement, No Recourse to Public Funds and public opinion on migration.
Jacqueline.broadhead@compas.ox.ac.uk
Jen Nghishitende
PhD candidate, The Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull
Relevant research interests: Modern slavery, women, mothers, race and class.
n.j.nghishitende-2020@hull.ac.uk
Dr Jeni Vine
Research and Development Manager, Belong - the cohesion and integration network
Relevant research interests: Social cohesion, integration, peacebuilding, building shared ground
John Willott
Principal Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University
Relevant research interests: Refugee and other migrants’ access to education and work; social inclusion.
Kate Smith
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Leeds
Relevant research interests: Narrative, creative, participatory methods, with a particular focus on how asylum is understood and experienced by women and girls.
Kristen Johannes
Peer Researcher (Survivor of human trafficking)
Relevant research interests: Research that involves people with lived experienced of asylum and modern slavery as peer researchers, since there is a lack of research involving people with those experiences, or having a say in changes they wish to see.
kristen@survivoralliance.org/ krissiecross@gmail.com
Kubra Alhawamdeh
PhD candidate, University of Leeds
Relevant research interests: Cultural diversity in early childhood education, funds of knowledge approach as a framework to curriculum and decision-making.
Lauren Cape-Davenhill
PhD Researcher, University of Leeds
Relevant research interests: Immigration enforcement, the criminal justice system and how they intersect.
Louise Waite
Professor of Human Geography, University of Leeds
Relevant research interests: My research interests span migration and slavery; with a particular focus on discourses of ‘modern slavery’, unfree/forced labour and exploitative work among asylum seekers and refugees.
Dr.Lucy Mayblin
Senior Lecturer Sociology, co-director Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield
Relevant research interests: Asylum; policymaking; human rights; legacies of colonialism.
Lucy Mort
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
Relevant research interests: Policy research related to migration, integration and communities.
Lucy Potter
PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield
Relevant research interests: Asylum and Refugees, Non-religion, Human Rights, Postcolonialism.
Maria Vasquez-Aguilar
PhD candidate, University of Sheffield
Relevant research interests: Political activism of refugees, exile communities, intergenerational transmission of trauma, identity and memory, dictatorships in Latin America and human rights, solidarity networks.
Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, Department of Archaeology, University of York
Relevant research interests: diaspora makings, post-displacement cultural heritage, climate change displacement, temporalities of movement, cultural festivals, more-than-human approaches.
mariana.p.l.pereira@york.ac.uk
Melanie Cooper
Reader in Maternity and Migrant Health, University of Bradford
Relevant research interests: Migrant communities; health inequalities, access to health care. Implementing interventions to address barriers to services including peer support, health technology.
Naeema B. Hann
Emeritus Reader, Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University
Relevant research interests: Language learning materials, learner strategies, motivation for language learning and identity positions.
Patricia Hynes
Professor of Social Justice, Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University
Relevant research interests: Forced migration in all its form: refuge, asylum, human trafficking; independent child migrants; research ethics; trust/mistrust in humanitarian contexts.
Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli
Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sheffield
Relevant research interests: asylum and migration policies, Latin America, Brazil, family reunification and family migration, migrant and refugee children, visa diplomacy and the role of diplomats on migration.
p.nabuco.martuscelli@sheffield.ac.uk
Philip Brown
Professor of Housing and Communities, University of Huddersfield
Relevant research interests: Housing inequality, experiences of migration, refugee studies, health and housing.
Dr Rebecca Murray
Lecturer in Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Relevant research interests focus on borders and bordering practices in post-compulsory / higher education; migration and social care; migrant-led participatory methodologies.
Rosa Mas Giralt
Deputy Programme Manager BA Professional Studies and Visiting Research Associate, University of Leeds
Relevant research interests: migrant/transnational families, caregiving and carers in migrant families, migrants and welfare, migrant children and young people, community-based/peer research.
Rosie Galbraith
Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Leeds Trinity University
Relevant research interests: The support and care of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and trafficked children.
r.galbraith@leedstrinity.ac.uk
Sara de Jong
Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York
Relevant research interests: Resettlement of former Afghan local staff, gender and migration, migrants as brokers, pro-migrant and anti-racist activism.
Satrio Nindyo Istiko
Senior Research Fellow, Bradford Institute for Health Research
Relevant research interests: applied sociology, qualitative and decolonial methodologies, and health inequalities linked to race, gender, and sexuality
Walid Mousa
PhD candidate, University of Leeds
Relevant research interests: Labour market integration, Asylum seekers and refugees, digital skills, training, skills development and employment relations.
Zulfiya Hamzaki
PhD Candidate, University of York
Relevant research interests: Refugee resettlement and integration, interactive documentary, filmmaking, storytelling.