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(Inst for Risk & Disaster Reduction).ÌýBayes's research focuses onÌýdisaster risk reduction (DRR), conflict and migration, climate change adaptation, community vulnerability and resilience, and climate justice. He works in the intersection between conflict and disaster with a vision to help improving the living standards of forced migrants and stateless population.

(Bartlett School of Planning). Her research contribution spams the fields of urban planning, studies and human geography and has been focusing over the last fifteen years on understanding urban transformations, at different spatial and temporal scales and examined through different conceptual lenses. She has a keen interest in developing alternative models to understanding cities with key account of locality and context (temporary urbanism, alternative-substitute place making, responsible inclusive planning), to re-thinking systematically the connection between cities, planning, health and sustainability with a focus on the most vulnerable communities.Ìý

Ìý(Development Planning Unit). Her research focuses on informal urbanisms, and bordering practices in the urban contex. Further research interests are related to the ethics of design, especially the social role of architects and the legacy of the community architecture movement.

Ìý(Risk and Disaster Reduction). HerÌýresearch is broad and interdisciplinary with a particular focus on policy, intersectionality, and violence, as well as their overlaps with migration, refugees and trapped populations, trafficking or health and mental wellbeing.

(Institute for Global Prosperity). HerÌýresearch is concerned with role of infrastructures of shaping urban exclusion and participation, especially of refugees and migrants.

(IOE Social Research Institute). Mette is a social anthropologist with research interests in migration, diasporas and migrant transnationalism; urban diversity and conviviality; and notions and understandings of migrant deservingness and practices of solidarities. She is founding co-editor ofÌýMigration and Society, an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, and co-director of Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøվ’sÌýMigration Research Unit.

(Development Planning Unit). He is an architect and urbanist with interests inÌýhumanitarian urbanism, environmental forced migration, temporary shelters, post-disaster housing reconstruction, and communication in emergencies.

(Institute of Archaeology). Her key interests include: Critical Heritage perspectives, ‘Heritage Wellbeing’ and the transformative ‘efficacies of heritage’ particularly in contexts of marginalisation, displacement, conflict and extremis. Beverley has on-going long-term fieldwork research in the Middle East – notably in Egypt, Palestine and Jordan.

Ìý(Inst for Risk & Disaster Reduction).ÌýShe is a social anthropologist, her research interests lie primarily in humanitarianism, refugee migration, welfare, and politics of aid.

Ìý(IOE - Education, Practice & Society). Her research interests includeÌýthe intersection betweenÌýmigration andÌýwellbeing outcomes.

(Genetics, Evolution & Environment). Her museological research investigates the value of cultural participation to health, wellbeing and education. She has been PI on a number of projects including an ESRC/AHRC GCRF project entitledÌýCo-developing a method for assessing the psychosocial impact of cultural interventions with displaced people: towards an integrated care framework, in collaboration with Dr Bev Butler, Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Archaeology, Dr Fatima Al-Nammari at the University of Petra, the Helen Bamber Foundation and Talbieh Refugee Camp.

Ìý(Institute for Global Health). He is a medical doctor with experience in clinical paediatrics and public health. His research is on maternal and child health and is part of theÌýLancet Commission on Migration and Health.

(IOE - Social Research Institute). Her research interests include migration and the intersections between welfare and migration regimes, gender, childhood and intersubjectivity.Ìý

(IOE - Culture, Communication & Media). Hakan’s recent research focuses on the role the digital and traditional media play in giving voice to the most vulnerable groups, leveraging solutions, and addressing inequalities in emergency context. Hakan has worked as communication expert for UNHCR, UNICEF and World Bank in different countries, including Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Morocco and Turkey. In collaboration with a number of academic institutions, research centres and humanitarian organizations, he has coordinated digital storytelling (DST) workshops with and for refugees and carried out ethnographic fieldwork in refugee camps.Ìý

Ìý(Geography)Ìýis Director of theÌýRefuge in a Moving WorldÌýnetwork and isÌýCo-Director of the Migration Research Unit at the Department of Geography.ÌýElena specialises in forced migration and conflict-induced displacement, with a particular thematic interest in gender, generation and religion, and a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa.Ìý

Ìý(IOE - Psychology & Human Development). HerÌýresearch focuses on understanding the views and experiences of refugees who have or are currently going through psychotherapy through the use of qualitative methods.Ìý

Ìý(Hebrew and Jewish Studies). Migration has been a prominent feature in Jewish history from its inception, and forced migrations are part of this history of migrations. FrançoisÌýworks specifically on responses of Jewish communities to react - politically and socially - to such challenging situations in the early modern and modern period (16-19th centuries).Ìý

(IOE - Social Research Institute). HeÌýis also anÌýassociate editor of the Reimagining Childhood StudiesÌýwebsite.ÌýHis doctoral project explores the dynamics of family relationships and power relations in Chinese families where parents have migrated internally. He focuses particularly on left-behind’ children’s perspectives.

(IOE - Social Research Institute). She studies family life and young people. Her work looks at migrant and minority family life and practices, citizenship rights and activism in minority groups, social identity and parenting across generations. Her work also explores the influence of culture, nature and the arts on wellbeing and belonging.

(Arts and Sciences BASc). Her research looks at colonial legacies in Middle Eastern displacement, focusing on the politics of Palestinian refugee history across the region since 1948. Her work also examines the historical trajectory of UN refugee regime in the Global South,Ìý and the role of refugee communities in shaping it.

Ìý(Development Planning Unit). She is an urbanist who is interested in migration and displacement in relation to urbanisation and urban life. Her core research focus is on disasters and post-disaster recovery, and this extends into looking at how people living through crisis situations make their way in the city, and how existing governance mechanisms can support them.Ìý

Ìý(History).ÌýHe specialises in the history of relations between religious groups in early modern Europe – in essence, the history of religious toleration and conflict in Europe in the 16^th-18^thÌýcenturies. The history of early modern religious refugees is one important aspect of this topic.

Ìý(Inst for Risk & Disaster Reduction). His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. That covers three main areas: (i)Ìýdisaster diplomacyÌýand health diplomacyÌý; (ii)Ìýisland sustainabilityÌýinvolving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations; and (iii)Ìýrisk educationÌýfor health and disasters.

Ìý(School of Slavonic and East European Studies). She isÌýa historian of twentieth-century European history with a particular interest in histories of displacement, exile and return.Ìý

Ìý(School of Slavonic and East European Studies). Agnieszka is an interdisciplinary socio-legal, migration and human rights scholar with area studies interest in Central Eastern Europe and Russia.ÌýAgnieszka's research among undocumented Syrian asylum seekers in Russia together with her involvement in their case before the European Court of Human Rights resulted in a court decisionÌýÌýand a real impact beyond academia: establishing standards of protection of Syrians against deportation in all European countries.

Ìý(IOE - Culture, Communication & Media) works with an NGO that developsÌýEdTechÌýsolutions for education in rural andÌýmarginalizedÌýcommunities in Bangladesh. Since 2017, she has been working on a EdTech pilot projectÌýin the Rohingya Refugee camp in Cox’s Bazaar. HerÌýresearchÌýis focused onÌýdigital education solutions forÌýprofessional developmentÌýforÌýRohingyaÌýrefugee teachers.ÌýAdditionally, her other interests lie in communityÌýleadÌýresponses in conflict zones.

Ìý(History) isÌýa historian of migration, war and empire in twentieth century Britain and the British Empire.Ìý

Ìý(Civil, Environ &Geomatic Eng) working with the RELIEF centre on a project in Lebanon, where she is researching modes of vitality in the refugee camp. An architect and urban specialist, Samar worked with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, where she held the post of Architect/ Physical Planner, and oversaw the Shelter Rehabilitation programme. She obtained her PhD from the Bartlett School of Architecture, Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾, where she researched refugee space-making in the Palestinian camp in Jordan and in Lebanon.

Ìý(Anthropology). She has researched migration issues for several decades, primarily among migrants from Turkey in Germany, described in her prize-winning book,ÌýCosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish challenges to citizenship and belonging in GermanyÌý(Duke Univ. Press). At Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ she has directed the series of international conferences and arts workshopsÌýEngaging Refugee Narratives: Perspectives from Academia and the ArtsÌýin 2016-17, where talks, demonstrations and interactive workshops have brought together arts practitioners and academics who all are engaged in work with refugees.

(IOE - Culture, Communication & Media). She isÌýa Lecturer (Teaching) inÌýLanguages in Education and in Refugee Education. She has conducted researchÌýon the experience of refugees and asylum seekers seeking access to Higher Education and isÌýdeveloping engagement pathways with policy makers to reduce barriers to HE for refugees and asylum seekers.

Ìý(School of Slavonic and East European Studies). He completed a three-year project examining the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer individuals in the context of (forced) migration to Europe.

(IOE - Education, Practice & Society). Caroline’s work initially contributed to the emerging field of international retirement and lifestyle migration, with more recent research into family and forced migration. She explores how identities are shaped across the life course through migration and are influenced by state policies and interventions. She led a four-country comparative study of the rights and entitlements of Family Migrants in Europe. She has focused on city-led innovation in asylum seeker reception in Europe, especially through a 3-year research and evaluation of the Utrecht Refugee Launchpad, which aimed to improve asylum seeker reception through principles of co-education and co-living with local city residents.

Ìý(Institute of Global Health) is a medical doctor and academic researcher coordinating the Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾-Lancet Commission for Migration and Health. Her background is in medical anthropology and her research explores refugee health, including through research with Syrian refugees in informal camps in Northern Greece.

(IOE - Education, Practice & Society). His research focuses on education inÌýconflict-affected societies and the role of education in post-conflictÌýpeace building. He is involved in research into educational challenges for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon and Jordan, and education for peace in Somaliland.

Ìý(French, SELCS). He is the author ofÌýDiscourses on LGBT asylum in the UK: constructing a queer haven, published by Manchester University Press (2016), and has authored articles on LGBT asylum and homonationalism. His interdisciplinary research is based on the critical discourse analysis of French and UK public discourses, in particular in relation to race, sexuality, gender and migration, and the emergence and configuration of social problems in public arenas.

Ìý(IOE - Education, Practice & Society).ÌýHis research interests lie in social and developmental policies, with a particular focus on migration, conflict, education, humanitarianism, and the localization of aid.Ìý

Ìý(IOE - Social Research Institute). Her work pays particular attention to spatial formations of political exclusion, histories of displacement, the formation of diaspora, and the negotiation of local and transnational citizenship. Co-PI on an interdisciplinary project looking at the intersection of ethnic minority and sexual minority mental health, and Co-I on the CICADA-ME project, which investigates the experience of the pandemic among ethnic minorities with chronic conditions and disability, funded by the NIHR.

(IOE - Social Research Institute). HerÌýresearch aims to develop practical and theoretical understandings of vulnerability and social interaction to use with linked research outputs to support instrumental changes in policy and practice. Her focus is on so-called hidden disabilities (e.g.Ìýmultiple sclerosis, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, diabetes, abuse, depression, developmental disorders, cancer), and on the intersection with race, ethnicity and migrant status.

Ìý(IOE - Social Research Institute). HerÌýwork explores stratification and bordering of the conditions in which life is made, and made meaningful, and in turn how children and their families in precarious migranthood sustain, weather, evade, care, and engage in solidaristic action.ÌýHer work contributes to debates about the politics of children and childhood;Ìýchanging adult-child relations in the context of neo-liberal migration and welfare regimes; and how and to what effect children are involved in migration processes.

(Geography). She is interested inÌýrapid urban change, particularly of small- to medium-sized urban areas, and displacement. Her research focuses on: property and rent;Ìýurban planning law, policy and practice; households, families and youth; displacement and migration; qualitative and creative research methodologies.

Ìý(Arts and Sciences BASc). Her research focusesÌýon migration and health, withÌýa specific interest in trauma and resilience of displaced children and adults. She hasÌýengaged in a number of projects comparing historic and contemporary practices in relation to mental health and wellbeing - such as in relation to the Kindertransport scheme, and the British Home Child Scheme, comparing this with current practices with displaced children and families.

Ìý(Security and Crime Science). Since 2015 his work focuses on migration, human smuggling, and organised crime in conflict countries, and has appeared onÌýinternational platforms such as Al Jazeera, the New Arab and the Independent. At Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ he is establishing the Human Trafficking, Smuggling and Exploitation research group alongside other PhD students in the Security and Crime Science Department. David is also a film director, having directed two short animation films on deportations to Tunisia and forced return migration from Lebanon to Syria.

Ìý(Geography). HerÌýresearch interests engage with different aspects of austerity and makeshift urbanism, focusing on alternative cultural and economic geographies related to the politics of urban poverty, informal work, and everyday strategies in contexts of precarious urban environments.

(IOE - Social Research Institute).ÌýShe is a social anthropologist working with migrant families including refugees. Her main research interests lie in understanding how refugees experience everyday life once they arrive and how they created social relations and a sense of belonging.

(Geography).ÌýHis teaching and research centre on the movement of movements, following how activisms travel, circulate, migrate; how citizenship struggles shuttle from place to place; how resistances resonate across anticolonial geographies and radical trajectories. Tom works in Athens, where he is a member of the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum (SGYF), an international movement focused on building platforms for citizenship.

(Laws) is an expert in public international law, and also has an interest in the interface between international law and related academic disciplines, including international relations and legal and political theory.ÌýHe is a long-standing member of the International Association for the Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ of Forced Migration (IASFM), having served as Rapporteur for one of the IASFM’s conferences. His research on migration has included work on UNHCR administration of camps housing refugees and IDPs, and the extraterritorial application of human rights and refugee law in the migration context, from sea-rescues to the extraterritorial posting of border officials.Ìý