Experts Database

Jan-Paul Brekke has his doctorate in sociology from the University of Oslo. His areas of interest include migration and refugee policies, migrant experience, secondary migration in Europe and the development of the European asylum regime.

Jacqui is the Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity, the knowledge exchange arm of COMPAS where she manages a wide portfolio of knowledge exchange and research projects which aim to extend and deepen COMPAS’s international contribution to the reciprocal sharing of expertise and ideas among academics, policy makers, professionals, civil society, lawyers, foundations, school students and others in the field. Jacqui’s own work focusses on local government and migration, integration and inclusion and how place based narratives can facilitate the development of inclusive communities.

Jacqui is a Research Member of Kellogg College Oxford’s largest and most international graduate college and sits on the Departmental Research Ethics Committee (DREC) for the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and the Central University Ethics Committee (CUREC.) Jacqui acts as the UK coordinator for the European Website on Social Integration.

As a Senior Researcher at the Global Exchange from March 2017-March 2019 she led on the first phase of the Inclusive Cities programme – supporting 6 UK cities and their local partners to achieve a step-change in their approach towards integration of newcomers in the city, including through a learning exchange with Welcoming America.

Prior to this, Jacqui managed the Refugee and Migrant Team at Islington Council, providing social services support to families and vulnerable adults with No Recourse to Public Funds, designing and managing the council’s contribution to the Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme and delivering training to social workers on behalf of the NRPF Network. In 2016, she received a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to travel to cities in the United States and Italy to understand how cities can better integrate migrants. In 2020 she became a participant in the Franco British Young Leaders Programme, run by the Franco-British Council.

Jacqui is an alumni of the National Graduate Development Programme for Local Government (NGDP) and the Teach First Programme. She holds an MSc in Public Management and Leadership from Warwick Business School and a BA in French and Italian Studies from the University of Warwick.

Laura Brody is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie fellow participating in the European Joint
Doctorate ‘MOVES’: Migration and Modernity – Historical and Cultural Challenges’
at Charles University and Paul-Valery University. Previously, she received an M.A. in International Migration from the University of Kent and a B.A. in International Comparative Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on issues of forced migration, nationalism, memory, identity and belonging in the Balkans/Eastern Mediterranean.

Maia is a PhD student at the University of Brighton, affiliated with the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics. Her qualitative research explores the relation between climate-related water insecurities (including floods, extreme weather and contamination) and forced im/mobility amongst marginalised communities in Newham, London. Drawing on political ecology, urban and justice scholarship, Maia hopes to highlight how urban marginality shapes and is shaped by climate-mobility emergencies in ways that challenge Eurocentric dichotomies that have long dominated research and policy in these fields, including: North-South, developed-developing, human-nature and vulnerable-resilient.

Philippa Brunner-Heywood is a PhD student in Sociology of Education and Culture at Uppsala University within the graduate school 'Education, Learning and Globalization' , a collaboration between Uppsala, Malmö and Södertörn universities. Her thesis works to uncover the structure of the education labour market for secondary school teachers in Sweden, while exploring the experiences of migrant teachers navigating within it and the effect they have on the national landscape of the teaching profession.
She is a member of the research group Sociology of Education and Culture (SEC) , as well as the research group for Studies on Education, Migration and Segregation (EMS). She currently currently acts as a country expert for the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project.

Marco BRUNO (PhD) is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Communication and Social Research. His research focuses on media and cultural diversity (with particular reference to Islam and migratory processes), journalism, communication and political phenomena.