Members of the MRU

Director Emeritus

• Professor John Salt, Professor Emeritus in Geography
  John specialises in international migration in Europe and the United Kingdom and his major fields of interest are highly skilled migration, and human smuggling and trafficking.
  E-mail: jsalt@geog.ucl.ac.uk

Deputy Director

• Dr. Claire Dwyer, Senior Lecturer in Geography
  Claire specialises in transnationalism and diaspora identities. Recent work on the Leverhulme Programme has focused on questions of integration for Muslims in Britain. New research examines ‘Faith in Suburbia’.
  E-mail: cdwyer@geog.ucl.ac.uk

Staff Members

• Dr. Janet Dobson, Honorary Senior Research Associate
  Janet specialises in child migration and its implications for the education system, as well as having a wider interest in contemporary international migration in the UK.
  E-mail: janet.dobson@ucl.ac.uk
• Professor John Eade, Visiting Professor
  John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Roehampton University and Executive Director of CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) at Surrey and Roehampton universities.  John joined the MRU as a Visiting Professor at UCL in 2010.
  E-mail: ucfajea@ucl.ac.uk
• Dr. JoAnn McGregor, Reader in Geography
  JoAnn McGregor specialises in contemporary Africa and recent African diasporas in Britain; her research interests are in conflict and forced migration, borders and transnationalism. Most recently, she has been working on the recent exodus from Zimbabwe, the politics of work and asylum for Zimbabweans in the UK.
  E-mail: j.mcgregor@ucl.ac.uk
• Dr. Alan Latham, Senior Lecturer in Geography
  E-mail: alan.latham@geog.ucl.ac.uk
  Alan is interested in the ways which certain internationally mobile individuals and groups use globalisation – and the transportation and communication networks that sustain it – to create life-projects that are strung across enormous distances.
• Dr. Charlotte Lemanski, Lecturer in Geography
  Charlotte Lemanski is interested in contemporary migration from South Africa to the UK and its influence on identity formation, particularly religious identities in the context of diaspora networks and return migration.
  E-mail: c.lemanski@ucl.ac.uk
  
• Dr. Pablo Mateos, Lecturer in Geography
  Pablo focuses on investigating new ontologies and geographic visualisations of ethnicity, migration and mobility. His recent work has focused on residential segregation, categorisations of ethnicity, the geography of names, and the spatial analysis of populations and neighbourhoods in the UK, Spain, US and Mexico.
  E-mail: p.mateos@ucl.ac.uk
• Dr. Ben Page, Reader in Geography
  Ben working on the relationship between migration and international development, particularly in relation to African home associations both in Africa and in the international diaspora.
  E-mail: b.page@geog.ucl.ac.uk
• Victoria Bauer, Research Officer
  Victoria is responsible for statistics reports.
  E-mail: v.bauere@ucl.ac.uk

Research Students

• James Esson
  

  From men to boys: football, masculinities and Ghanaian labour migration
  james.esson.09@ucl.ac.uk

• Ruth Judge
  From the council estate to the African Orphanage: the impact of low-income youth’s voluntary encounters overseas on class and race identity
  r.judge.11@ucl.ac.uk

• Ben Lampert
  Ben is studying Nigerian civil society organisations in London and their transnational linkages.
  E-mail: b.lampert@ucl.ac.uk
• Darya Malyutina
  

  Construction of national identity in Russian migrants’ diaspora in London as reflected through consumption of food and drink
  darya.malyutina@ucl.ac.uk

• Magali Moreau
  Magali is studying land cover change and natural resource use in refugee hosting areas of Kasulu District, Western Tanzania.
• Gayle Munro
  Gayle is studying the transnational networks of involuntary migrants from the former Yugoslavia.
  E-mail: g.munro@ucl.ac.uk

• Caitlin O’Neil
  ‘Coming of age in the United States, Becoming Mexican(-American): A study of how young Mexican women engage with ideas of womanhood, family and ‘Mexicanness’ in San Diego, California’

• Cinzia Polese
  Cinzia is studying asylum policy in Italy and the United Kingdom.
  E-mail: c.polese@ucl.ac.uk
• Samina Raman
  ‘Marriage, identity and young British South Asian Muslim Women’
• Nadia Robb
  Nadia is studying migration experiences of Romanians in Britain.
  E-mail: nadia.robb@ucl.ac.uk
• Hussein Samater
  Hussain is studying diaspora and development: the case of Somaliland.
• Jasper Tjaden
  Migrant Integration and Public Opinion – non-European migrant population’s opinion towards citizenship test policy in Germany, Spain and the UK
  jasper.tjaden.11@ucl.ac.uk
• Lauren Wagner
  Lauren is studying post-migrant generation Moroccans in Europe and their interactions with Morocco.

Associate Members

• Professor Paul Compton, Honorary Research Fellow
  Paul specialises in European demography and international migration in Hungary.
• Dr. Paul Densham, Reader in Geography
  Paul specialises in Geographical Information Systems.
  E-mail: pdensham@geog.ucl.ac.uk
• Dr. Violetta Parutis
  Violetta recently completed a PhD on migration experiences and notions of home for Polish and Lithuanian migrants in Britain.
• Dr. Dominic Pasura, Former-ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Dominic completed a ESRC Postdoctoral fellowship on 'Religious Transnationalism: The Case of Zimbabwean Catholics in Britain'.
• Dr. Debbie Soothill
  Debbie recently completed a PhD on Chinese migrant experience in Madrid.
  E-mail: d.soothill@ucl.ac.uk
• Professor Peter Wood, Professor Emeritus in Geography
  Peter specialises in the internationalisation of expert labour.
  E-mail: p.wood@geog.ucl.ac.uk
• Daniel Conway
  British Academy Project: 'The British in South Africa: Continuity or Change?'
  E-mail: D.J.Conway@lboro.ac.uk
• Lia Shimada
  "Learning & Development Officer" for the Methodist Church of Great Britain
  E-mail: lshimada@alum.wellesley.edu