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Jennifer McGarrigle holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Glasgow, UK. She is a researcher in the Centre of Geographical Studies (CEG) and an Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Her research interests cover international migration, migrant integration and urban change.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London (GlobalGRACE AHRC/GCRF project). Research areas: gender & sexuality, migration, asylum, NGOs, social justice movements, creative research methods. PhD in Anthropology; MA in Visual Anthropology. Editor and columnist, Red Pepper magazine.

Qualified lawyer with over 15 years of combined experience in human rights practice, education and research. His PhD is from the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at the University of London. Sam spent three years of his PhD as a visiting scholar at Vienna University under the supervision of Professor Manfred Nowak.
A lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sam is currently working on the project 'Refugee Lives Matter: Protecting the human rights of migrants and refugees through international and regional obligations to investigate deaths'.

Currently Head of Asylum Strategy & International in the UK Government. Over five years' experience in immigration policy development and analysis, legislation, refugee/asylum law and rights (including at EU level), and international/multilateral affairs (representing the UK at IGC, GDISC, and G7 Roma-Lyon Group meetings). I have previously worked at UNODC, covering Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling. My Master's thesis covered policy approaches to the 2015 migrant crisis.

Rob McNeil is a Researcher for COMPAS examining the social environments from which news stories and narratives about migration and migrants emerge; how media debate affects migration policy decisions (and vice versa); and how information gaps affect the way these issues are discussed. He lectures on migration and the media for the MSc in Migration Studies.
Rob is also the Deputy Director and Head of Media and Communications at the Migration Observatory. He was part of the team who launched the Migration Observatory in 2011 and, since then, has been working to embed Migration Observatory analysis in public debates. He is responsible for public relations strategy, parliamentary and community outreach and news and commentary work.
Rob is a former journalist and joined COMPAS in November 2010 after two years as the Media Director for the US environmental organisation Conservation International. Previously he worked as PR manager for Oxfam GB, Senior Press Officer for WWF-UK and as a journalist for a range of publications including the Evening Standard, The Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror, Red, Time Out and BBC Wildlife.

Dr. Katie McQuillan works as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Trinity Centre for Global Health. REFUGE-ED is funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, and is being conducted across seven European countries. The goal of the project is identify, implement, and evaluate existing evidence-based interventions for children and young people who are refugees, asylum seekers, or separated minors. In particular, we are interested in practices that can be implemented in formal and non-formal educational settings to promote inclusion, mental health, sense of belonging, and academic achievement. Further, a key feature of the project is it's co-design with children, families, teachers, practitioners, policymakers and other relevant stakeholders.

She is also a chartered psychologist and both works in the Irish Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy and in the National Centre for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture.

Historically, she has published in the areas of complex post-traumatic stress disorder among homeless adults as well as in HIV healthcare.

MEDA Mouoboum Marc is a Research Assistant at the Higher Institute of Population Sciences (Burkina Faso). He is the thematic manager for "Migration, Poverty and Inequalities" of the Migration for Equality and Development Project (MIDEQ) since 2019. He holds a PhD degree in sociology from the University Joseph KI-ZERBO (Burkina Faso) on migration of Dagara populations from Burkina Faso to Southern Ghana in the context of climate change.MEDA Mouoboum Marc has various research experiences and expertise on migrations, agriculture-livestock integration in the context of climate change, perceptions of climate change, but also on conflict analysis.