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Professor of International Migration, Department of Geography
Te: +44 (0) 1792 602409
Email: h.crawley@swansea.ac.uk
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Heaven is a researcher and policy analyst specialising in international refugee and asylum policy, law and practice. She has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of national and international asylum and immigration issues gained through doctoral research, freelance consultancy, as head of the UK Home Office’s research programme in asylum and immigration and Associate Director with responsibility for research on migration and equalities at the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). Heaven’s current research interests are primarily in the area of public policy relating to forced migration, asylum and different forms of international migration (in particular labour migration and family-related migration) at the local, national, and international levels. She is also interested in the implications of diversity (in particular race and ethnicity, gender and childhood) for social justice and the ability of different groups to access resources (in particular legal rights, welfare support, housing and the labour market).
Associate Director
Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 602616
Email: n.piper@swansea.ac.uk
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Nicola joined the University in May 2007 from the University of Singapore. She was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University and has worked as consultant for the UN Research Institute for Social Development. Nicola has researched and published extensively on issues related to international economic migration. Her specific research interests and expertise revolve around governance and policy networks, non-governmental organisations and transnational political activism, the rights of migrants, gender issues, with empirical focus on Southeast and East Asia, Latin America as well as Europe.
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Professor and Head of School of Business and Economics
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 602103
Email: d.h.blackaby@swan.ac.uk
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David's main areas of research are labour markets, regional economies, public policy and the Welsh Economy. His research as a labour market economist has generally used large micro datasets and has concentrated on analysing earnings and unemployment determination. In particular research David has undertaken research on the determinants of the earnings of ethnic minorities and women. In the case of ethnic minorities particular attention has been given to examining the differences between recent immigration and those born in the UK.
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 602064
Email: m.a.k.brice@swansea.ac.uk
Kevin’s research interests are in the areas of the demographic and socio-economic profile of White British Muslims as a minority group, issues of identity amongst converts to Islam in the
Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 602364
Email: h.brocklehurst@swansea.ac.uk
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Helen is an international relations specialist with a particular interest in children and international politics. For the last ten years or so she has been interested in representations of children and how different stages and aspects of childhood inform our understanding of what is political and what is war. Her other interests include nationalism and national identity, security, gender theory, and art as a political tool. She has worked on an ESRC project on policy making and transition from political violence, based at INCORE, University of Ulster, involving comparative research on South Africa and was a research coordinator on an ESRC project about British national identity.
Senior Lecturer, Department of German
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 295710
Email: t.cheesman@swansea.ac.uk
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Tom’s research interests are wide-ranging but focus in particular on transnational literatures, especially Turko-German writing. A period of AHRC funded research leave in 2004-5 enabled Tom to complete a monograph entitled Turkish German Novels of Settlement: Cosmopolite Fictions:. Due to appear in 2007, this book surveys fiction by some twenty German writers of Turkish background, as well as by ethnic German writers who depict Turkish protagonists. It argues that the standard critical terminology of “migrant literature” is outdated: the Turkish German ‘literature of settlement’ now asserts achieved belonging to German society and culture. Tom has also edited a number of anthologies of writing by asylum seekers and refugees living and working in Swansea and published by Hafan Books.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 295311
Email: c.a.davies@swansea.ac.uk
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After completing a first degree and a masters in mathematics, Charlotte converted to anthropology. Her doctoral research, based on a year of participant observation in Wales, examined cultural identity and political movements. This interest in Welsh society and culture has continued to be a basis for research, with publications in diverse areas such as: feminism and nationalism; the Welsh language and identity; equal opportunities and Welsh women in senior management; and performance and ritual in the Welsh National Eisteddfod. Charlotte recently completed a research project (with ESRC funding) looking at mass education, national identity and citizenship. Another recent project, also ESRC funded, built on a baseline study carried out in Swansea in the 1960s to examine families and social change over the past 40 years. Her current research (an ESRC project in collaboration with Prof Nickie Charles, Warwick University, and Dr Stephanie Jones, Swansea) focuses on gender and political processes in the context of devolution.
Senior Lecturer, School of Business and Economics (WISERD)
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 293684
Email: s.j.drinkwater@swansea.ac.uk
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Stephen’s main research interests lie in applied micro economics, particularly within the labour market as well as regional issues. His research has primarily focused on labour market discrimination, self-employment, industrial relations, international and interregional migration, the effect of language on economic activity and voting behaviour. He has recently received research funding from the European Commission (to investigate the impact of East-West migration following EU enlargement), the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (to examine the performance of ethnic minorities in the UK labour market) and the ESRC (for a socio-economic analysis of recent Polish migration to the UK). He is currently employed in the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), which is jointly funded by the Welsh Assembly Government (HEFCW) and the ESRC. The aim of the initiative is to draw together and build upon the existing expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods and methodologies at Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Bangor and Glamorgan Universities. WISERD will embark on an ambitious data integration, primary research and capacity building programme in Wales.
Reader, Department of Politics and International Relations
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 294290
Email: a.finlayson@swansea.ac.uk
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Alan’s research interests encompass political theory, public policy, British politics and methods of political analysis. His publications have appeared in a wide variety of journals including Nations and Nationalism, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Economy and Society and Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. He has authored numerous book chapters and also co-edited Politics and Poststructuralism: An Introduction, edited Contemporary Political Theory: A Reader and Guide and wrote the book Making Sense of New Labour. He has delivered talks to public sector and charitable organisations such as the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and the Institute of Public Policy Research and is currently researching aspects of the rhetoric of politics in Britain.
Reader, Department of Modern Languages (German)
Director, GENCAS (Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society)
Tel: +44 (0) 1702 205678. Ext. 4028
Email: b.haines@swansea.ac.uk
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Brigid’s research interests encompass nineteenth and twentieth-century German literature, women’s writing and feminist critical theory. She has published widely in these fields, with a monograph on Adalbert Stifter and a jointly authored (with Margaret Littler) book entitled Contemporary Women’s Writing in German: Changing the Subject. She has edited volumes on Herta Müller and Libuše Moníková, who migrated to Germany from Romania and the Czech Republic respectively. Her most recent AHRC-funded research project, Enduring Empires: History, Trauma and Identity in Recent German Writing from Central and Eastern Europe, surveys the work of ethnic Germans and others who have migrated to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since the Second World War, especially since the fall of communism. Common themes explored by the writers include trauma, migration, the communist past and the search for identity in the new globalised Europe.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 205678 x4500
Email: k.h.halfacree@swansea.ac.uk
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Keith’s migration research interests, overlapping with other interests in rural studies and social theory, lie primarily in drawing out the diverse currents informing counter- urbanisation, promoting a cultural perspective on migration more generally, and appreciating how migration helps to structure institutions such as the family and place.
Research Associate, Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Tel: +49 (0) 69/798-32350
Email: helff@nelk.uni-frankfurt.de
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Sissy teaches postcolonial and transcultural literature, culture, and film and is especially interested in the representation of migration and diasporic lifeworlds as well as in the image of the refugee. She is the author of Unreliable Truths’ (forthcoming) and co-editor of ‘Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe’ (2009), ‘Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities’ (2008), ‘Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture’ (2010) and ‘The Art of Migration’ (forthcoming, 2011), and is currently working on a monograph about the representation of the refugee in British literature.
Department of Adult Continuing Education (DACE)
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 295795
Email:j.james@swansea.ac.uk
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Judith joined DACE in 1990 and was responsible for strategic funding applications to develop the 'Community University of the Valleys Partnership', the 'Connecting Communities Cymru' and linked community development projects. She also developed projects focussed on women, refugees, and people living in socially disadvantaged or geographically distanced communities. Judith currently manages all externally funded projects in DACE. Her research interests are in empowerment and mainstreaming equality. Judith is also involved in the evaluation of EC funded programmes.
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 602130
Email: m.e.kenna@swansea.ac.uk
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Margaret has carried out research, based in Greece, on migrants since the 1960s. Her work falls into two categories: rural-urban migration, and forced migration. Greek economic migration depopulated the rural areas of Greece, and these migrants formed associations to channel funds back to their place of origin; but later tourism development brought return migration, as well as migrants from other countries, to these now redeveloping rural areas. Margaret’s research on forced migration deals mainly with social historical sources, particularly those concerning internal political exiles.
Lecturer, Centre for Social Work and Social Care Research
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 602585
Email: t.maegusuku-hewett@swansea.ac.uk
Before joining the university in 2006, Tracey worked as a social worker with refugee children, young people and families and she continues to engage with refugee children and young people in an advocacy capacity and via Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group and the All Wales Refugee Children’s Policy Group. Tracey has lectured on the BSc (Econ) Social Work programme in 2006/2007 before joining the Center for Social Work and Social Care Research. Amongst other projects of the centre, in 2008 she completed a scoping exercise of policy and multi-disciplinary practice across Wales in relation to the care and protection needs of asylum seeking, unaccompanied and trafficked children. She also intends to develop research relating to social care provision and the social work response to dispersed families and unaccompanied children and young people. In 2008, Tracey completed a PhD concerned with immigration policy and asylum seeking children’s rights and wellbeing; using Wales as an empirical case study.
Department of Continuing Adult Education (DACE)
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 295795
Email: l.guemar@swansea.ac.uk
Latefa was forced to leave her lecturer post in electronics and flee Algeria following personal attacks on her family as a result of her husband’s work as a journalist. Having received refugee status in the UK in 2004, Latefa re-oriented her study undertaking a part-time degree in Humanities and an MSc in Population Movements and Policies at Swansea University. Latefa has undertaken research on the reporting of security issues and its impacts on Arabic speakers living in the UK, on anti-terrorism legislation and its implications for asylum seekers and refugees, and on the decision making of asylum seekers who come in the UK . She has also worked on the 'Parenting in a Multicultural European City' project, working with parents from different nationalities to improve social cohesion and the integration of families from different background who live in the Swansea area. Latefa has a particular interest in gender issues in forced migration, inter-generation dialogue within migrant families, diasporas and identities, and social cohesion.
Lecturer, Centre for Development Studies
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 295183
Email: k.peters@swansea.ac.uk
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Krijn is a rural development sociologist specialised in armed conflict and post-war reconstruction. He has particular expertise in disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of ex-combatants, child soldiers, youth marginalisation and exclusion, and rural and agrarian development. Much of his research is focused on Sierra Leone and Liberia. Krijn is interested in the impact of armed conflict on population movements, the role of Internal Displaced Camps and Refugee Camps for militia recruitment, and in engaging internally displaced people and refugees as stakeholders in conflict and in post-war reconstruction
Dr Prodromos Panayiotopoulos (aka Mike Pany)
Lecturer, Centre for Development Studies
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 206678 x4361Email: m.pany@swansea.ac.uk
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Dr Prodromos Panayiotopoulos has researched and published on the relationship between ethnicity migration and enterprise, with particular reference to the influence of the political-institutional framework in the positioning and re-positioning of members of an ethnic migrant group from the ranks of wage workers to those of the self-employed and small-scale entrepreneur. Current research has focussed on the impact of European Union enlargement. His research has shown that immigrant and black/ethnic minority enterprises are far more economically differentiated than is assumed by the conventional literature which tends to focus on the role of the self-employed and small family-owned enterprises.
Department of Continuing Education (DACE)
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 295691
Email: j.preece@swansea.ac.uk
Jean joined DACE as a ‘Women in Technology’ student in 1990, and taught IT for 10 years. Through the NOW project in 1998 she became involved in European projects and took over the co-ordination of the Foundation in IT (FIT) in 1999, which has continued to expand and attract European funding. Her main interests are empowering students and communities, and understanding how students learn.
Reader and Director of the Development Studies Centre
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 295975 / 295877
Email: n.l.price@swansea.ac.uk
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Neil has over thirty years experience in social and policy research and analysis in population and international health (specialising in HIV/AIDS), and worked in over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Caribbean, Latin America, South Pacific, and the Middle East. He has undertaken policy advisory work for the UN, World Bank, DFID and other bilateral donors, and numerous international NGOs. A number of large research grants - from the UK Economic & Social Research Council, the Department for International Development, and others - have allowed Neil to undertake ethnographic fieldwork in the Caribbean, Cambodia, China, Kenya and Zambia. His main fields of research are the political economy of population, and access and equity in health in the context of health sector reforms.
Senior Lecturer, School of Law
Tel: + 44 (0) 295193Email: h.quane@swansea.ac.uk
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Helen’s areas of expertise are in public international law especially international human rights law, rights-based approaches to inter-communal conflict, human rights and development, and UK human rights law.
Lecturer, School of Law
Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 295815
Email: jane.m.williams@swansea.ac.uk
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Jane was formerly a practicing barrister and freelance lecturer (1982 – 5), and a member of the Government Legal Service (1985 – 2000), working at the Home Office, Civil Service College, Welsh Office and National Assembly for Wales. Her research interests are in human rights, with a special interest in children’s rights, and she is a member of Wales monitoring group on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Jane also has particular interest and expertise in devolution and in the way that devolution enables sub-nation-State governments within the UK (and indeed elsewhere in the world by way of comparison) are able to develop different approaches to migration-related issues based on their own policy agendas.
Lecturer, Media and Communications Department
Tel: +44 (0)1792 513273
Email: y.wu@swansea.ac.uk
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Yan has been teaching in Higher Education institutions since 1998 and carrying out research projects in media studies since 1995 both in China and the UK. Her main research interests are media and the public sphere, broadcasting journalism, computer-mediated communication, citizen journalism, diasporic media, globalisation and communication, and the socio-cultural impact of the new media. Yan is currently working with researchers from Germany, China and four other countries on a research proposal on the perception of Europe and migration policies.