Professor Sergei Shubin

Professor, Geography

s.v.shubin@swansea.ac.uk

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

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About

I am a Professor and Director of the Centre of Migration Policy Research at Swansea University, one of the UK’s leading centres of migration studies. My interests in migration studies and mobility and inequality have been developed through international research and teaching experiences in Russia, UK, France, New Zealand and Canada.

For the last 10 years, I have attracted £8.04 mn in research funding, including Horizon2020 award for research on Perceptions of migration in the EU, ESRC award for research on cross-European migration and settlement in Scotland, RCUK funding for inter-disciplinary research on well-being and poverty alleviation in the Amazon (ESPA), Bangladesh and India (BBSRC, Newton Fund, GCRF, UKAid). I have also secured funding from the British Council to lead multi-disciplinary international research teams in France and Portugal working on migrant integration. Over the last 6 years, I worked on several large externally-funded projects as Swansea’s Principal Investigator, securing funding and supporting six post-doctoral researchers.

My varied research outputs include multi-disciplinary publications with anthropologists, economists, historians, education scholars and health scientists, as well as 3 exhibitions, 4 short films, multi-lingual children’s storybook and an article in one of the highest circulation broadsheet newspapers.

In the last 6 years, I supervised 12 PhD students, including 4 ESRC-funded studentships. I have secured peer-reviewed national and international PhD grants for 8 students, and developed first-of-its-kind joint (double) PhD degree scheme with one of the world-leading universities, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Areas Of Expertise

Inequality: poverty and social exclusion
Critical geographies of development
Moving geographies: mobilities and migrations
Care, relation and community
Time and temporality
Post-socialism and Russia
Rural geographies
Health, “madness”

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

My interests in geographies of migration, inequality and development have been established through my international teaching experiences in Russia, UK, France and Canada. One of my area of teaching interests is Moving geographies: mobilities and migrations. It explores the diversity of mobile experiences (physical movement, imaginative mobilities, labour migrations, spiritual mobilities) as a part of people’s ways of live. My teaching in this area is research-led and draws on my projects and publications, which reconsider times of migration, appropriate forms of mobility, mobile subjectivities and socio-spatial exclusion of migrants. I am actively working with the Welsh schools, international artists, migrant groups and museums to encourage different thinking about journeys, settlement and migration –find more about this in this film.

Research Award Highlights Collaborations

Publications

Research Highlights

Shubin, S., Finney, N., Cranston, S., McCollum, D., & Darlington-Pollock, F. (n.d.) Possibilities of population thinking: histories and futures of Population Geography through reflections on 50 years of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Population Geography Research Group. Population, Space and Place
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65796
Shubin, S. (2022). The Emotional (Un)making of the Family in Cross-European Parent–Child Relations. Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 6(2), 257-275.
https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010167, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62764
Shubin, S., Andrews, W., & Sowgat, T. (2022). Rhizomatic poverty in aquaculture communities of rural India and Bangladesh. Social and Cultural Geography, 24(8), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2055776, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60603
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2055776
Buyuklieva, B., Cranston, S., McCollum, D., Beech, S., Botterill, K., Catney, G., Darlington‐Pollock, F., Finney, N., Shubin, S., Tebbett, N., & Waite, C. (2021). Reflections on a Golden Jubilee: Celebrating 50 Years of Population Geography within the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s journals. Area, 53(4)
https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12753, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58359
Pradhan, P., Verma, D., Peruzza, L., Gupta, S., Haq, S., Shubin, S., Morgan, K., Trusch, F., Mohindra, V., Hauton, C., West, P., & Sood, N. (2020). Molecular insights into the mechanisms of susceptibility of Labeo rohita against oomycete Aphanomyces invadans. Scientific Reports, 10(1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76278-w, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57712
Shubin, S. & McCollum, D. (2021). Migrant subjectivities and temporal flexibility of East‐Central European labour migration to the United Kingdom. Population, Space and Place, 27(8)
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2508, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57464
Shubin, S. & Harper, M. (2021). Spiritual homes on the move: narratives of migrations from Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Social & Cultural Geography, 23(8), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2021.1907856, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56666
Shubin, S. (2021). ‘Mind the gap’: Responding to the indeterminable in migration. Dialogues in Human Geography, 11(1), 64-68.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620975961, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54497
Shubin, S. & Lemke, M. (2020). Children displaced across borders: charting new directions for research from interdisciplinary perspectives. Children's Geographies, 18(5), 1-11.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2020.1781061, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54496
Shubin, S. (2020). Evaluating the process of cross‐European migration: Beyond cultural capital. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(4), 802-816.
https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12372, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12372

All Research

Journal Articles

Shubin, S. (2022). The Emotional (Un)making of the Family in Cross-European Parent–Child Relations. Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 6(2), 257-275.
https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010167, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62764
Shubin, S., Andrews, W., & Sowgat, T. (2022). Rhizomatic poverty in aquaculture communities of rural India and Bangladesh. Social and Cultural Geography, 24(8), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2055776, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60603
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2055776
Shubin, S. & McCollum, D. (2021). Migrant subjectivities and temporal flexibility of East‐Central European labour migration to the United Kingdom. Population, Space and Place, 27(8)
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2508, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57464
Buyuklieva, B., Cranston, S., McCollum, D., Beech, S., Botterill, K., Catney, G., Darlington‐Pollock, F., Finney, N., Shubin, S., Tebbett, N., & Waite, C. (2021). Reflections on a Golden Jubilee: Celebrating 50 Years of Population Geography within the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s journals. Area, 53(4)
https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12753, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58359
Shubin, S. & Harper, M. (2021). Spiritual homes on the move: narratives of migrations from Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Social & Cultural Geography, 23(8), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2021.1907856, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56666
Shubin, S. (2021). ‘Mind the gap’: Responding to the indeterminable in migration. Dialogues in Human Geography, 11(1), 64-68.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620975961, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54497
Shubin, S. (2020). Evaluating the process of cross‐European migration: Beyond cultural capital. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(4), 802-816.
https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12372, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12372
Pradhan, P., Verma, D., Peruzza, L., Gupta, S., Haq, S., Shubin, S., Morgan, K., Trusch, F., Mohindra, V., Hauton, C., West, P., & Sood, N. (2020). Molecular insights into the mechanisms of susceptibility of Labeo rohita against oomycete Aphanomyces invadans. Scientific Reports, 10(1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76278-w, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57712
Shubin, S. & Lemke, M. (2020). Children displaced across borders: charting new directions for research from interdisciplinary perspectives. Children's Geographies, 18(5), 1-11.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2020.1781061, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54496
Shubin, S., Sowgat, T., & Shubin, S. (2019). Contested experiences and potential justice at the limit of the law for poor urban children in Bangladesh. Children's Geographies, 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2019.1630711, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50637
Shubin, S. (2019). L'espace-temps migratoire. Une approache Heideggérienne pour comprendre le vécu de la mobilité des Européens de l'Est vers l'Ecosse. Ecarts d'Identité, 131(2), 60-71.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48617
http://www.ecarts-identite.org/
Dickey, H., Drinkwater, S., & Shubin, S. (2018). Labour market and social integration of Eastern European migrants in Scotland and Portugal. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 50(6), 1250-1268.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18781086, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40882
Rapport, F., Hutchings, H., Doel, M., Wells, B., Clement, C., Mellalieu, S., Shubin, S., Brown, D., Seah, R., Wright, S., & Sparkes, A. (2018). How Are University Gyms Used by Staff and Students? A Mixed-Method Study Exploring Gym Use, Motivation, and Communication in Three UK Gyms. Societies, 8(1), 15
https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8010015, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa38761
Kolyganov, D. & Shubin, S. (2017). Life between the city and the countryside (drawing on field research in Tver region). Moscow State University Bulletin: Series 5 - Geography, 6, 92-95.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa38959
https://istina.msu.ru/publications/article/92534039/
Shubin, S. (2015). Migration timespaces: a Heideggerian approach to understanding the mobile being of Eastern Europeans in Scotland. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 40(3), 350-361.
https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12078, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20132
Shubin, S., Rapport, F., & Seagrove, A. (2015). Complex and dynamic times of being chronically ill: Beyond disease trajectories of patients with ulcerative colitis. Social Science & Medicine, 147, 105-112.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.065, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa24602
Collins, F. & Shubin, S. (2015). Migrant times beyond the life course: The temporalities of foreign English teachers in South Korea. Geoforum, 62, 96-104.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.04.002, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21050
Shubin, S., Findlay, A., & McCollum, D. (2014). Imaginaries of the ideal migrant worker: a Lacanian interpretation. Environment and Planning D - Society and Space
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17024
McCollum, D., Shubin, S., Apsite, E., & Krisjane, Z. (2013). Rethinking Labour Migration Channels: the Experience of Latvia from EU Accession to Economic Recession. Population, Space and Place, n/a-n/a.
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1789, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16204
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp.1789/pdf
Findlay, A., McCollum, D., Shubin, S., Apsite, E., & Krisjane, Z. (2013). The role of recruitment agencies in imagining and producing the ‘good’ migrant. Social & Cultural Geography, 14(2), 145-167.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2012.737008, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13781
Shubin, S. & Dickey, H. (2013). Integration and mobility of Eastern European migrants in Scotland. Environment and Planning A, 45(12), 2959-2979.
https://doi.org/10.1068/a45533, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16205
Kay, R., Shubin, S., & Thelen, T. (2012). Rural realities in the post-socialist space. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(2), 55-62.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.03.001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16206
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016712000290#
Shubin, S. (2012). The Church and Mobility: Dealing with the Exclusion of Eastern European Migrants in Rural Scotland. Rural Theology: international, ecumenical and interdisciplinary perspectives, 10(1), 9-26.
https://doi.org/10.1558/ruth.v10i1.9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16207
Shubin, S. (2012). Understanding care for the poor in rural Russia. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(2), 89-98.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.01.017, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13169
Shubin, S. (2011). “Where Can a Gypsy Stop?” Rethinking Mobility in Scotland. Antipode, 43(2), 494-524.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00744.x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16208
Shubin, S. (2011). Travelling as being: understanding mobility amongst Scottish Gypsy Travellers. Environment and Planning A, 43(8), 1930-1947.
https://doi.org/10.1068/a43613, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7836
Shubin, S. (2011). Living on the Move: Mobility, Religion and Exclusion of Eastern European Migrants in Rural Scotland. Population, Space and Place, 18(5), 615-627.
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.696, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7835
Shubin, S. (2010). Cultural exclusion and rural poverty in Ireland and Russia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35(4), 555-570.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00402.x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7837
Shubin, S. & Swanson, K. (2010). “I’m an imaginary figure”: Unravelling the mobility and marginalisation of Scottish Gypsy Travellers. Geoforum, 41(6), 919-929.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.06.006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13168
Shubin, S. (2007). Networked poverty in rural Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 59(4), 591-620.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130701289935, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16209
Shubin, S. (2007). From individuals to networks: Unfolding complex poverty in rural Ireland. Irish Geography, 40(1), 17-38.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00750770709555885, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16211
Shubin, S. (2006). The changing nature of rurality and rural studies in Russia. Journal of Rural Studies, 22(4), 422-440.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2006.02.004, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16212
Shubin, S. (2000). Geography of Irish rural population in 1961-1996. Moscow State University Bulletin, 5(1), 29-30.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16214
Shubin, S., Finney, N., Cranston, S., McCollum, D., & Darlington-Pollock, F. (n.d.) Possibilities of population thinking: histories and futures of Population Geography through reflections on 50 years of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Population Geography Research Group. Population, Space and Place
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65796

Book Chapters

Shubin, S. (2020). Rethinking Fluid, Complex and Uncertain Poverty in Amazonian Ecosystems in Bolivia and Brazil. In Antonio Ioris, Rafael Ioris and Sergei Shubin (Ed.), Amazon's Frontier of Development Lexingron Books
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52620
Collins, F. & Shubin, S. (2017). The temporal complexity of international student mobilities. Timespace and international migration Edward Elgar
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34723
http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/timespace-and-international-migration
Shubin, S. (2016). Critical Perspectives on Histories of ‘Madness’ and Migration. Migration and Mental Health - Past and Present
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52968-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28092
Guillemot, L. & Shubin, S. (2013). Searching jobs for" better life": understanding employment mobilityand well-being of Eastern European migrants in France and Scotland. Communication aux Renc ontres Grand - Ouest de l’Intelligence Territoriale (pp. 11-17). IT-GO
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa24931
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00787280/document

Edited Books

Ioris, A., Ioris, R., & Shubin, S. (Eds.). (2020). Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances. Lexington Books.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54494
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498594714/Frontiers-of-Development-in-the-Amazon-Riches-Risks-and-Resistances
Shubin, S. (Ed.). (2019). A Canvas of Children's Lives: Stories from Assasuni, a village in Bangladesh. Mantra Lingua.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53482
https://uk.mantralingua.com/products/canvas-childrens-lives

Supervision

Sensing Wales: Conflicting Identities and Belonging of Young Ethnic Minority People in Wales (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Prof Marcus Doel
Practices of welcome with refugee and asylum seeking migrants in rural Wales: ‘literacies of doing’ and the (re)writing of place. (awarded 2024)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Angharad Closs Stephens
Exploring the role of new member state migrants in macro-regional integration in France and the UK in France and in the UK (awarded 2023)

PhD

Other supervisor: Prof Marcus Doel

Taught Modules

GE-S00 Year Abroad (Geography)

Study at a partner institution abroad.
GEB301 Interdisciplinary Field Course to the Indian Himalayas (Sikkim)

This residential field course module explores the relationship between environment and society in the Himalayan state of Sikkim in NE India on the borders with China, Nepal, Tibet and West Bengal. The course is inter-disciplinary in approach and policy-oriented. Students work with members of University Staff in mixed groups of biologists, human geographers, physical geographers and zoologists. Through intensive inter-disciplinary group working, students utilise (and pass on) their specialist skills in the group exercises and projects that are undertaken.
GEG230 Social Geographies

This module is an overview of the processes co-constructing space and social relations, providing different ways of understanding our contemporary world and how people live within it. The module explores the field of social geography across different geographical scales, and relationships and interdependencies existing between these scales, creating boundaries and connections. These scales and spaces include the body, the home, community, the street, city and nation. The module emphasizes the multiplicity of approaches, theories and arguments about human life in Social Geography, and the connections and interrelations which exist between different fields of geographical enquiry. This approach focuses on multiple economic, political and cultural interactions in varying contexts, defined via places, power relations and systems of organization and control. It encourages students to be open to this diversity of interpretations and living patterns, and to think critically about different issues related to the co-construction of space and society.

More Teaching Interests

My second teaching strand focuses on Development and Inequality. This teaching embraces different knowledge practices which create space for the understanding of “speechless”, “marginal” and “other” experiences of vulnerable people in their own “different” ways. My teaching in this field includes a range of media such as short films, cartoons, pop videos, documentaries and artistic performances enabling the whole class to engage in the process of (inter-)active learning. Working in close collaboration with artists and schools in Bangladesh and Wales, we co-developed teaching materials such as the illustrated children’s storybook to tell stories about poverty in different languages. I engage with the diverse communities and take teaching about inequalities outside of classroom – you can learn more about this from this short film.

I continue to develop these teaching interests and apply them in the context of different countries. With the support from the grants from the Higher Education Academy and Santander Universities, I provided training for PhD students in Moscow State University (Russia) and Rio Grande University the University of Grande Rio (Brazil). I have designed and delivered an innovative methods workshop for the Youth Summer School “Geography in the Modern World”, organised by the Russian Geographical Society.

More Research

My knowledge and expertise in development and poverty have been applied to the recent interdisciplinary Newton Fund project, where I worked together with biological, environmental, computer scientists, epidemiologists and social scientists to tackle poverty in India and Bangladesh (https://preventcontrol.org/). We challenged the principles measurement and calculative rationality in existing anti-poverty interventions and explored improvisation, experimentation, hope and repetition as mechanisms for critically evaluating aquaculture-led development. We have produced varied, creative and interdisciplinary outputs (exhibitions, films such as http://bit.ly/CREATENGAGE) from different research fields to broaden the target audiences and develop lasting partnerships that promote research and innovation.

Addressing the third important strand of my research on care and temporality, the recent ESRC-funded project on Social Support and Migration in Scotland explored changing spatio-temporal movement of Eastern Europeans, ruptures and continuities in their mobile being (https://bit.ly/37Iw2cl). By developing relational understanding of time-space, I used Participatory Action Research to co-develop research questions and support migrant-led initiatives, such as Language Cafes and Make It Happen events (http://bit.ly/MakeItHap). This study re-evaluated distance in negotiation of cultural preferences, highlighted affective and emergent practices

More Collaborations

Greece: Centre for Security Studies (joint research project)

Iceland: University of Iceland (joint research conference)

India: Indian Council of Agricultural Research, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (joint research project)

Italy: Universita Degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Universita di Bologna, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (joint research project)

Japan: University of Tokyo, Tohuku University (joint research project)

Latvia: University of Riga (joint publications and research project)

New Zealand: University of Auckland, University of Waikato (joint publications)

Poland: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń (joint research)

Portugal: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (joint research project)

Russia: Moscow State University, Tver State University, Russian Academy of Sciences (joint publication and research project)

Spain: Universidad de Granada, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

USA: University at Buffalo, State University of New York, University of Houston (joint publication and research conference)

Key Grants and Projects

PERCEPTIONS, “Understanding the Impact of Novel Technologies, Social Media, and Perceptions on EU’s Migration Flows” 2019 - 2022

This project has received funding from the European Union’s H2020 Research & Innovation Action under Grant Agreement No 833870, € 5,000,000
“Exploring the role of cultural capital in the macro-regional integration of migrants” 2019 - 2021

This project has received funding from the Cluster of Excellence (LabEx) DynamiTe (France), with Professor Marcus Doel (Swansea University), Professor Yann Richard, Professor Clarisse Didelon-L, € 50,000
Ordnance Survey, "Evaluating the impact and improving delivery of public services in Wales’s night-time economy" 2017 - 2020

This project has received funding from Ordnance Survey and ESRC, with Dr Matt Roach (Swansea University), Dr Andrew Williams (Cardiff University), £9,000 (OS) and £30,000 (ESRC)
“Poverty alleviation through prevention and future control of the two major socioeconomically-important pathogens in Asian aquaculture” 2016 - 2019

This project has received funding from Newton-Bhabha Fund, BBSRC and Department For International Development, with Dr Tanjil Sowgat, Dr Will Andrews, Dr Nilufar Ahmed (Swansea University), £2,500,000
“Experiences of Social Security and Prospects for Long Term Settlement in Scotland amongst Migrants from Central Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union” 2013 - 2018

This project has received funding from Economic and Social Research Council under grant agreement No. ES/J007374/1, with Dr Holly Porteous, Dr Alexandra Szoke, Claire Needler (Swansea University), £1,120,000
“Forest dependent poor at the agricultural frontier: the complexity of poverty and the promise of sustainable forest ecosystems in Amazonia” 2010 - 2011

This project has received funding from Natural Environment Research Council under grant agreement No. NE/I004467/1, with Prof Michelle Pinard, Dr Antonio Ioris (University of Aberdeen), £50,000
“Environmental marginality and social exclusion in Scotland: a comparative analysis of two environmentally deprived areas” 2010 - 2011

This project has received funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, with Dr Antonio Ioris (University of Aberdeen), £4,500
“Integration of East-European and Euro-Mediterranean Migrants in France and Scotland” 2009 - 2010

This project has received funding from the British Council and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EGIDE), with Dr Lionel Guillemot, Dr Emmanuel Bioteau, Dr Chadia Arab (Université d'Angers), Dr Heather Dicke, £10,000
“Integration of East-European Migrants in France and Scotland” 2008 - 2009

This project has received funding from the British Council and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EGIDE), with Dr Lionel Guillemot, Dr Emmanuel Bioteau, Dr Manuella Roupnel-Fuentes, Dr Samuel Delepine (Unive, £10,000
“Mobility and participation in Scottish society” 2007 - 2008

This project has received funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, £2,000

Career History

Professor in Human Geography and Migration, Swansea University

February 2020 - Present
Associate Professor in Human Geography, Swansea University

June 2013 - February 2020
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Swansea University

August 2011 - May 2013
Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Aberdeen

July 2015 - July 2011
Assistant Professor in Human Geography, University of Saskatchewan

June 2004 - June 2005

Affiliated Positions

Professeur Invité de la Recherche, Université d'Angers

2019 - 2019
Invited Researcher, University of Auckland

2013 - 2013
Professeur Invité de la Recherche, Université d'Angers

2010 - 2010

Other Roles

Director, Centre for Migration Policy Research

2015 - Present

Public Engagements

During my career I have been working closely with NGOs and disadvantaged communities (migrants, poor people, Gypsy and Roma Travellers) to make their voices heard. My work focused on culture-based and context-specific involvement of previously excluded, uneducated and overlooked groups in policy dialogue. In collaboration with the international artists, I use visual and performance art as novel creative practices to establish real community participation, inspire new thinking and catalyse partnerships.

In the recent PACONDAA project, we cocreated and shared educational resources, provided art and skills training, used memories and artistic expressions to co-design mechanisms for change, organised community festival and co-produced artists’ and children’s paintings. The results of this collaborative work have been displayed in a permanent exhibition and two temporary exhibitions. We helped young people in Wales to develop “poverty postcards” in response to the drawings produced by their Bangladeshi counterparts. These postcards were shared across schools in Wales and returned back to children co-created them in Bangladesh to challenge poverty stereotypes and represent alternative visions of the future (https://www-2018.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/news-archive/2018/childrensettoshareexperiencesofpovertyatspecialworkshop.php).

Invited Presentations, Lectures and Conferences

“The flows of international students: From regionalization to regional integration”

March 2019

Université Paris 7 Diderot, France
“Exploring different dimensions of poverty in relation to aquaculture in India and Bangladesh”

January 2019

Indian Ministry of Technology, Chennai, India
“Transnational families and care”

October 2018

Reykjavik, University of Iceland
“Evaluating mobile cultures in the process of cross-European migration: beyond cultural capital”

May 2018

University of St. Andrews, Scotland
“Migration from Eastern Europe to Scotland”

July 2016

Russian Geographical Society, Moscow, Russia
“Contemporary methods of geographical research”

January 2016

Moscow State University, Russia
“Migration and international development”

April 2015

University of Grande Rio, Brazil
“Life courses and times of Eastern European migrants in Scotland”

July 2013

Massey University, New Zealand
“Drawing the “ideal” migrant worker: methodological challenges of exploring international recruitment discourse and practices”

June 2013

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
“Migrating Times: What they are and where they move”

June 2013

University of Auckland, New Zealand
“Changing Spaces of Care in Rural Russia”

March 2011

St. Antony College, University of Oxford, UK
Integration and mobility of Eastern European migrants in Scotland”

October 2010

Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
“Migration et mobilité en provenance de l’espace post-communiste en Europe: théories, méthodologies et épistémologies”

November 2009

MIGRINTER, Université de Poitiers, France
“Mobility and participation in Scottish society: understanding exclusionary practices and experiences of Scottish Travellers”

April 2007

University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Professor Sergei Shubin

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Sensing Wales: Conflicting Identities and Belonging of Young Ethnic Minority People in Wales (current)

Practices of welcome with refugee and asylum seeking migrants in rural Wales: ‘literacies of doing’ and the (re)writing of place. (awarded 2024)

Exploring the role of new member state migrants in macro-regional integration in France and the UK in France and in the UK (awarded 2023)

GE-S00 Year Abroad (Geography)

GEB301 Interdisciplinary Field Course to the Indian Himalayas (Sikkim)

GEG230 Social Geographies

“Environmental marginality and social exclusion in Scotland: a comparative analysis of two environmentally deprived areas” 2010 - 2011

“Integration of East-European and Euro-Mediterranean Migrants in France and Scotland” 2009 - 2010

“Integration of East-European Migrants in France and Scotland” 2008 - 2009

“Mobility and participation in Scottish society” 2007 - 2008

Professor in Human Geography and Migration, Swansea University

Associate Professor in Human Geography, Swansea University

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Swansea University

Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Aberdeen

Assistant Professor in Human Geography, University of Saskatchewan

Professeur Invité de la Recherche, Université d'Angers

Invited Researcher, University of Auckland

Professeur Invité de la Recherche, Université d'Angers

Director, Centre for Migration Policy Research

“The flows of international students: From regionalization to regional integration”

“Exploring different dimensions of poverty in relation to aquaculture in India and Bangladesh”

“Transnational families and care”

“Evaluating mobile cultures in the process of cross-European migration: beyond cultural capital”

“Migration from Eastern Europe to Scotland”

“Contemporary methods of geographical research”

“Migration and international development”

“Life courses and times of Eastern European migrants in Scotland”

“Drawing the “ideal” migrant worker: methodological challenges of exploring international recruitment discourse and practices”

“Migrating Times: What they are and where they move”

“Changing Spaces of Care in Rural Russia”

Integration and mobility of Eastern European migrants in Scotland”

“Migration et mobilité en provenance de l’espace post-communiste en Europe: théories, méthodologies et épistémologies”

“Mobility and participation in Scottish society: understanding exclusionary practices and experiences of Scottish Travellers”