Members

This page details the staff currently active with the Network, with links through to further information about their research. Clicking on a member's name takes you to their staff page within their department.

Name	Department	Research Interests
Rabah Aissaoui	School of Modern Languages	Immigration and racism in colonial and postcolonial France.
Oluwafunmilayo Alakija	Department of Media and Communication	Migration and Nigerian diasporas in London.
Clare Anderson	School of Historical Studies	Colonialism. colonial societies and confinement in the Indian Ocean.
Rutvica Andrijasevic	Centre for Labour Market Studies at the School of Managment	Sex trafficking; migrant mobility; EU citizenship and governance.
Dr Dimitris Papadopoulos	School of Management	Autonomy of migration; transnationalism; migrant precarious labour; self-organisation of migrants. Further information
Emmilie Aveling	Department of Health Sciences
Dr David Bartram	Department of Sociology	The relationship between migration and happiness; migrant workers in Israel, looking particularly at the formation of government policy. Further information
Dr Leah Bassel	Department of Sociology	Gender and migration; citizenship and human rights; Minority women and NGO mobilisation in tough times; media and the riots. Further information
Zakaria Sajir	Department of Sociology	Comparative politics, political sociology, politics of immigration, political participation and nationalism. Currently undertaking his PhD studies on the impact of specific discursive and institutional contextual factors on the degree of political integration of third country nationals and their progeny in Europe.
Professor John Benyon	Institute of Lifelong Learning	Race relations, ethnicity and policing; experiences of African Caribbean people in Leicester.
Laura Brace	Department of Politics and International Relations
Steve Brown	School of Management	Social remembering and the memorialisation of British identity.
Richard Courtney	Centre for Labour Market Studies at the School of Management
Dr Ipek Demir	Department of Sociology	The translation and migration of knowledge and culture; empirical research involving the Kurdish and Turkish diasporas in Europe. Further information
Jen Dickinson	Department of Geography	Gender, citizenship and civil society; transnational belonging and economic development.
Sandra Dudley	School of Museum Studies	Materiality, cultural and political identities, especially in migration and exile.
Lucy Evans	School of English	Literary representations of migrants and the migrant experience; literature from the Caribbean region and diasporas; black and Asian literary cultures in the Midlands.
Nicole Fayard	School of Modern Languages	French women writers and gender violence.
Martin Findell	Historical Studies/Diasporas Project	Historical migration; Anglo-Saxon settlers and language change.
Corinne Fowler	School of English	British Black and British Asian literary cultures in Manchester and the Midlands, travel writing and journalism about Afghanistan and creative writing.
Lin Foxhall	School of Archaeology and Ancient History	Historical migrations; craft networks in the ancient Mediterranean; gender in classical antiquity.
Helen Foxhall-Forbes	Historical Studies/Diasporas Project	Historical migration and the transmission of regional and spiritual identities.
Fabian Frenzel	School of Management	Leisure mobility, organisation and identity.
Dr Viv Golding	School of Museum Studies	Issues of diversity, material culture and intangible heritage; examining identity and its construction to challenge contemporary racism and sexism. Further information
Stevie-Jade Hardy	Department of Criminology
Loveday Hodson	School of Law	International human rights law and social movements; feminist perspectives on international law.
Dr Sally Horrocks	School of Historical Studies	The role played by migration, both temporary and permanent, in the careers of scientists; the history of post-World War Two migration to the UK, and to Leicester in particular. Further information
Colin Hyde	East Midlands Oral History Archive	Colin is the Researcher and Outreach Officer with the East Midlands Oral History Archive. He works closely with community organisations in Leicestershire and Rutland, both to retrieve existing oral history recordings, and to encourage and support new work. He is the project manager for the 'Migration Stories' project. Further information
Simon James	School of Archaeology and Ancient History	Historical migrations; Roman and 'Celtic' peoples in Britain.
Professor Mark Jobling	Department of Genetics	Human genetic diversity and how it can be used to understand past population histories, including the impact of migrations. Co-Principal Investigator on the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain research programme. Further information
Turi King	Genetics/Diasporas Project	Using genetic data to explore past migrations and population structure.
Troy Lavers	School of Law	International public law and international criminal law; feminist perspectives on international law.
Gabriella Lazaridis	Department of Politics and International Relations	International migration, NGOs and policy-making processes in the area of migration.
Sara Lemos	Department of Economics	The econometric/statistical analysis of migration.
Dr Fransiska Louwagie	School of Modern Languages	French post-Holocaust literature. As this research addresses the experience of displaced witnesses, her work also focuses on issues of exile/Jewish diaspora, identity and bilingualism. Further information
Dr Clare Madge	Department of Geography	Clare's work examines facets of thought about the spatialities of mobility/migration, specifically with respect to the 'globalisation' of higher education. Further information
Rebecca Madgin	School of Historical Studies	Urban history and heritage; how the urban past informs the future development of the city.
Mirca Madianou	Department of Media and Communication	Migration, transnational family life and new media.
Professor Barbara Misztal	Department of Sociology	Political change, social movements and retrospective justice; conditions of human vulnerability.
Martina Martignoni	School of Management	Martina studied for her BA and MA in Contemporary History at the University of Bologna and the University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot. Martina’s interest is about postcoloniality and forms of political organisation. Her research 'Postcolonial organisations: A study of migrants from the former colonies in Italy and their organisational structures', will look at the role of postcolonial time and space inside the experiences of organisation, in particular political self-organisation. She will focus on Eritrean migrants in Italy, looking at the role of hybridity, colonial past and self-organisation in their political practices and the impact of their politics on existing organisations, both autonomous and public institutions.
Saima Masud	School of Psychology	Refugees, asylum and mental health.
Professor David Mattingly	School of Archaeology and Ancient History	Historical migrations; Roman Africa; imperialism.
Naoise McSweeney	School of Archaeology and Ancient History	Greek migration to Turkey in the Iron Age, focusing specifically on myths of migration - stories told about migration and arrival, explanations and justifications and claims to the landscape. How migrant groups root themselves in a new landscape through both stories and social practice.
Stephen Melluish	School of Psychology
Professor James Mitchell	Department of Economics	Econometric analysis of migration flows; economic consequences of migration. Further information
Dr Pierre Monforte	Department of Sociology	Civil society and social movements, with a particular emphasis on movements of migrants. Currently developing a research project on the mobilizations against border controls in the UK. Further information
Dr Laura Morales	Department of Politics and International Relations	The study of (1) the political participation, political representation and social capital of migrant-background citizens, and (2) the political dynamics that emerge around the immigration issue, primarily in connection to public opinion, political parties and policy-making. Further information
Katie Moylan	Department of Media and Communication
Salima Murji	Department of Sociology	The identity of two generations of Muslim living in Leicester and the influences of religion, education and family on these identities. Her research interests are Muslim women and gender identity and the research she is doing has allowed her to consider the impact of generation and migration and their influences on identity formation.
Professor Aubrey Newman	School of Historical Studies	The migration of several million Jews from Eastern Europe from 1850 to 1914, with a particular emphasis on the links between the Jews of Lithuania and South Africa. Further information
Dr Jane Nolan	Centre for Labour Market Studies at the School of Management	Skilled transient labour, particularly the practices of transnational elites in international finance and the role they play in the accumulation of capital within established and emerging International Financial Centres (IFCs) such as Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore. Further information
Deirdre O'Sullivan	Archaeology & Ancient History	Mapping Faith & Place project.
Rita Rasteiro	Genetics/Diasporas Project	Using genetic data to reconstruct the recent demographic history of human populations.
Nibedita Ray-Bennett	Civil Safety and Security Unit
Professor Carlo Ruzza	Department of Sociology	Political participation, institutionalism of new social movements.
Tehila Sagy	School of Law	The legal aspects of multiculturalism, refugees and asylum.
Jacqueline Sanchez-Taylor	Department of Sociology	Sex tourism; exploitation in the global sex trade and migration.
Valasia Savvidou	Department of Politics and International Relations	Currently pursuing a PhD on the importance of the immigration issue on vote choice for National and European Parliament Elections. Interests cover immigration in Europe, voting behaviour of immigrants, elections and voting behaviour when immigration is taken into account. Further information
Professor Kevin Schürer	Pro-Vice Chancellor	Economic and geographical mobility in 19th century Britain, USA and Canada.
Dr Marc Scully	School of Historical Studies	Diaspora and transnationalism; migrant identity from a social psychological perspective; how local and national identities are shaped by historical migrations. Further information
Phillip Shaw	School of English	Historical migrations; medieval language and literature.
Dr Tracy Simmons	Department of Media and Communication	Sexual citizenship and immigration. Her previous research has focused on the development of unmarried partner’s provision in the UK, examining the policy and experiences of same-sex couples attempting to achieve their migration based on their relationship. More broadly, she is interested in intersections between sexuality and gender and migration. Further information
Kelly Staples	Department of Politics and International Relations	Refugees and stateless persons; collective responsibility for statelessness.
Joanna Story	School of Historical Studies	Historical migration; connections between medieval England and Francia.
Dr Konstantinos Tatsiramos	Department of Economics	Issues related to the labour market such as entrepreneurship, employment dynamics and earnings dynamics with the use of microeconometric data and analysis.
Maria Touri	Department of Media and Communication	The effects of media representations and framing on policy making.
Maria Vlachou	School of Management	Transnational student migration.
Dr Meera Warrier	Academic Practice Unit	Globalisation, migration and development; migrant social networks. Further information
John Williams	Department of Sociology	Questions concerning globalisation, national and sub-national sporting identities, and 'race' and racism in sport. He is particularly interested in the role of local sport for immigrant communities, and in professional sporting migrations - players, owners, coaches, fans - and in some of the new complexities raised by sport in this kind of global context. Further information
Verena Wisthaler	Department of Politics and International Relations	Verena Wisthaler is a PhD Student at the University of Leicester and a Junior Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights at the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (I). Research interests: the relationship between national minorities and diversity stemming from migration from the point of view of identity change and political parties; various systems of minority protection and in particular minority education.
Professor Stephen Wood	School of Management	Management, well-being and organisational performance.

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