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Nicole is a postdoctoral researcher at SPAIS, University of Bristol, working with Prof. Katharine Charsley and Dr Helena Wray (University of Exeter) on the ESRC-funded Research Project: 'UK-EU couples after Brexit: Migrantization and the UK family immigration regime' (2023-2026).

Nicole was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Life & Environmental Sciences, working with Prof. Nick Gill on ASYFAIR (2017 - 2022) – a project investigating asylum appeal courts in Europe. Nicole was the lead researcher of the project, and - as a German native speaker - responsible for conducting research in Germany and Austria. See www.asyfair.com.

Nicole completed her PhD in Anthropology Research at Brunel University London in 2017, conducting extensive ethnographic fieldwork with resettled refugees in the UK, focusing on community development and the practice/policy gap. Her MRes studies (Brunel University London, 2010) were concerned with alternative development strategies and education in South Asia, as well as utilizing qualitative research methods to measure and operationalize policy and development programmes. During her previous studies (BSc and DipHE), Nicole conducted research in migration, education and linguistics.

I am currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. My main research interests focus on collective identities and geographic mobility, tourist and migratory alike. Specifically, my research is on migrants' leisure and transformations of the imaginaries of the good life due to migration. I use discourse analysis and ethnographic methods to study these processes. I have been a ​guest lecturer, fellow, and researcher at the University of Cambridge, University of Wolverhampton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ISCTE in Lisbon and Alpen-Adria University in Klagenfurt.

Research fields : Intra-EU mobility / migration; Return migration; Social Network Analysis; Mixed methods

Karen Latricia Hough was an ESRC funded researcher who obtained her doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She has published a variety of articles in Oxford University Press, Franco Angeli and Open Democracy. She has worked as a researcher on several EU funded projects and currently works as a researcher at CENTRIC, SHU UK on two Horizon 2020 migration projects MIICT and PERCEPTIONS

Senior Lecturer in Health & Social Policy, University of Glasgow. Alistair's research interests lie at the intersection of migration and ageing, and span topics such as health and care, inter-generational relations, end-of-life issues, religiosity, return and circular migration. His books include 'Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return' and 'Handbook of Migration and Ageing' (co-edited with Sandra Torres). His PhD (2012) was awarded IMISCOE's Maria Baganha Prize.

Ayesha Hussain is a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a Research Associate at Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies at University of Bonn. Her research project is entitled "Asymmetrical dependencies among Pakistani migrants in Italy's informal labour sector: The role of Social Capital". She analyses the dependencies within the social networks, at the micro and meso level structures of migration including families, ethnic networks and diasporas focusing on the mobilisation of social capital of networks particularly within the informal labour sector in Italy. 

Marita Ibañez Sandoval is a researcher and lecturer on Visual Studies. Born and raised in Lima, Peru, and based in Ibaraki, Japan. Currently pursuing doctoral studies in Photomedia at the Doctoral Program in Art at the University of Tsukuba. She received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and a master's in science degree in Kansei Design from the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Ibañez is a Monbukagakusho Scholar of the Japanese Government, researching landscape, migration, and Latin American communities in Japan. Lecturer with more than a decade of experience at Universities in Peru and Japan. Her work has been presented in different cities in Latin America, Europe, the USA, Korea, and Japan. Ibañez is part of the Time Lab/McLeod Lab research group.

Dr. Aida Ibričević is an independent migration scholar and research consultant based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, affiliated as a Global Fellow with the Migration Center at the Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Oslo, Norway and as a Research Fellow with the Center for Diaspora Studies, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. She contributes to the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) in Bonn, Germany project Trajectories of reintegration: The impacts of forced displacement, migration and return on social change as a Senior Research Associate and delivers consulting services for IOM’s Labor Migration Project and UNDP’s Diaspora for Development project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also provides review services for a number of peer-reviewed, international academic journals. Her recent research interests include: external voting, drivers of highly skilled emigration, return migration and reintegration, with a particular focus on how emotions relate to politics and the connections between citizenship, home, and belonging. Aida Ibričević has an Economics B.A. from Middlebury College, United States, and an Economics M.A. from Central European University (CEU), Hungary. Her doctoral degree is in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, which she completed with a dissertation entitled Searching for Home and Belonging: A Qualitative Study to Understand the “Emotional Citizenship" of Diaspora Returning to Bosnia and Herzegovina.