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A multilingual social scientist with experience at the UK Civil Service, LSE and the Office of the President of Bulgaria with in-depth knowledge of international migration, labour markets and diversity.

LSE PhD candidate with focus on migrant integration, identities and labour markets, previously educated in the UK, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria and the US.

Fluent in English, German, Spanish, and Bulgarian, with strong analytical, numerical, and communication skills, user of Excel and STATA, highly organised and proactive, volunteer for education projects.

Yu (Yvonne) Huang is a PhD candidate in the SAGE Futures Lab in Edith Cowan University. Her research delves into Chinese migrant families in Australia and Canada. She also serves as research administrator for the ECU TRACS Migration Research Network.

Working for 15 years with Migration Policy Group & Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX), Thomas (PhD, Maastricht) is a leading expert on data collection, indicators and policy evaluation on inclusion and equality. His 60+ publications investigate citizenship, political participation, inclusive education, legal migration, social policies and services for vulnerable and discriminated groups. He engages in mixed methods and participatory research, community leadership development and policy dialogue.

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and researcher at the University Institute for Tourism Research of the University of Alicante (IUIT-UA). My current interests are focused on lifestyle mobilities, tourism social sustainability and accessible tourism.

PhD candidate in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, researching young undocumented migrants in London. Interested in migration, citizenship, belonging, race and racism, immigration status, connecting migration with colonial histories and collaborative and participatory methods and methodologies. Previously worked as a researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. Vanessa has an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex, an MRes in Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Philosophy & Politics from the University of Durham. She has also worked for the Migration Committee at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Migrants' Rights Network in the UK. Vanessa is also the research director of actREAL, a social enterprise that uses theatre to disseminate research.

Dr. Christian Hunkler studied social sciences and marketing in Mannheim, Utrecht, and Bloomington. He earned his doctoral degree in sociology from Mannheim University with a thesis on ethnic inequality in access to dual vocational education. After his dissertation he worked for the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, Konstanz University, and DeZIM-Institute. Since October 2019 he is senior researcher in the units "Labor Market, Migration, and Integration" and "Education and Integration" at BIM.

His current research focuses on integration, especially the integration of refugees in Germany, ethnic and gender inequality on the labor market and the use of process generated (“Big Data”) for social scientific research, e.g., the relationship of age and productivity.

Passionate about inclusive market integration of vulnerable groups. I work with public and private entities promoting inclusive and market-responsive employment initiatives. I am interested in finding the sweet spots where migrants and refugees (among other vulnerable groups) and the market become productive and prosperous, together.

My work focuses on finding ways of facilitating productive entrepreneurship and inclusive labour market integration across the SME economy and wider private sector development initiatives in emerging markets.

Lucy is interested in research at the intersection of education and migration, and has a particular passion for youth-centred and arts-based methods. Her ESRC-funded doctoral project at the University of Oxford investigates young refugees' engagement with post-15 education in Greece.

Prior to joining Oxford, she spent several years teaching, researching and advising for UNESCO, NGOs, universities and public schools in various contexts.