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Sunita Abraham<\/a> is an honorary research fellow in PPR.\u00a0 Her research examines the intersection of politics, poverty and development.<\/p>\n

Dr Sophie Alkhaled<\/a>\u00a0is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the Management School. Her research\u00a0examines feminism and\u00a0patriarchy in the Middle East and the question of women\u2019s emancipation and informal political activism through entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia and\u00a0Sweden. She is currently focusing on Syrian women refugees\u2019 entrepreneurship as a means of economic survival and cultural revival in the contexts of Jordan, the Zaatari Refugee Camp and the UK. She is also a co-investigator on the European Commission\u2019s H2020 SIMRA project, investigating social innovation and social entrepreneurship as a mechanism to empower refugees and socially disadvantaged women in Lancashire and Cumbria.<\/p>\n

Dr Bruce Bennett<\/a> is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies.\u00a0 He is currently working on a book, Refugee Cinema<\/em>, with his colleague and regular collaborator Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University).<\/p>\n

Dr Giovanni Bettini<\/a> is Lecturer in LEC, focusing on the genealogy and political effects of discourses on mobility, environmental change and development, with a particular interest in the connections between climate change, adaptation and migration.<\/p>\n

Jihyun Choi<\/a> is a PhD candidate in Sociology.\u00a0 His thesis, supervised by Professor Andrew Sayer, and Professor Anne-Marie Fortier, is titled ‘Ambivalent Urban Multicultural: Cultural and Economic Process in a Migrant Neighbourhood, South Korea.’<\/p>\n

Dr Melis Cin<\/a> is Lecturer in Education and Social Justice. She focuses on arts and peacebuilding between Forcefully displaced populations and Host community youth across different countries (mainly Turkey, South Africa and Uganda). Her research approaches intercommunal conflict transformation from a feminist perspective and highlights the importance of developing gender-relational strategies for peacebuilding. Alongside these issues, she has kept up an interest in refugee education and the potential of education for sustainable peace and gender equality in conflict settings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Karolina Follis<\/a> is Senior Lecturer in PPR, interested primarily in\u00a0contemporary governance of international borders and its relationship to migration politics.<\/p>\n

Professor Anne-Marie Fortier<\/a> is in the Sociology department. Her research revolves around migrant belongings, citizenship and nation formations. Her current research is on the citizenship attribution process in Britain. It examines governing practices that seek to stabilise \u2018citizenship\u2019 in the face of migration, on the one hand, and how individuals (migrants and non-migrants) inhabit and challenge the resulting institutional and structural conditions surrounding citizenship, on the other.<\/p>\n

Dr Yang Hu<\/a> is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Data Science, interested in changing intimate and family relationships, their gendered constellations, and their intersection with population mobility.<\/p>\n

Dr Allison Hui<\/a> is Lecturer in Sociology.\u00a0 Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary cultural consumption, cases which straddle the boundaries of established social categories \u2013 such as home\/away, leisure\/tourism\/migration, everyday routines\/exceptions.\u00a0 Her recent work has focused upon the consumption of energy (2018) and interdisciplinary portrayals of EV consumers and migrants.<\/p>\n

Lidia Kuzemska <\/a>is a PhD researcher at the Department of Sociology. She is interested in forced migration, citizenship, borders, humanitarian actions, and their impact on belonging. Lidia is currently working on her thesis analyzing practices of \u2018bordering\u2019 and \u2018othering\u2019 of Internally Displaced People from the conflict Donbas region in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Dr Alison Lloyd Williams<\/a> is a Senior Research Associate in Sociology. She uses creative and theatre-based methods to research issues of citizenship and participation, particularly with children and young people and other marginalised groups.<\/p>\n

Dr Gwyneth Lonergan<\/a> is a postdoctoral fellow researching migrant women\u2019s experiences of maternity care on the NHS.<\/p>\n

Dr Sarah Marsden<\/a> is Senior Lecturer in Radicalisation and Politics in a Digital Age. In collaboration with the Council for At-Risk Academics, she helped establish the Sanctuary Fellowship to enable academics at risk to come to Lancaster to work in safety. Her research is focused on protest and resistance, and engages with third sector organisations who work with those subject to forced migration.<\/p>\n

Dr Cleovi Mosuela<\/a> is a visiting researcher from Bielefeld University, Germany.\u00a0 Her research examines caring relations in the context of the precarity of migrant workers and the inherent but increasing precariousness of humans on a changing planet. She is currently working on book about moral-laden discourses governing health care work migration.<\/p>\n

Kausiki Sarma is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociology, focusing on domestic violence in the northeastern state of Assam, India.\u00a0 Her Master’s thesis, for which she was awarded a distinction, explored the journeys of nine migrants living in Lancaster.<\/p>\n

Dr Emre Tarim<\/a> is interested in understanding the nexus between individual cognition and behaviour and social and economic institutions. His ongoing work focuses on cognition and decision making in the context of retail and institutional financial services, and migrants’ saving and investment behaviours in Europe and how these can relate to scholarly and popular debates on migrants\u2019 integration to host societies. He is currently writing up the results of two research projects on this topic in the UK and Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunita Abraham is an honorary research fellow in PPR.\u00a0 Her research examines the intersection of politics, poverty and development. Dr Sophie Alkhaled\u00a0is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the Management School. Her research\u00a0examines … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1170,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/migrancy-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/migrancy-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/migrancy-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/migrancy-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/migrancy-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/migrancy-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/migrancy-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/migrancy-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}