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Geographer, postdoctoral researcher & scientific coordinator of the HEALTH department at the collaborative Institut, associate researcher at the IRMC (Tunis) since September 2021.
From September 2017 to July 2021 , Betty Rouland was a CNRS-MEAE researcher developing a research program on "Globalization, regional mobilities and local development: towards the emergence of a transnational health care space in North Africa?" at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain. Her work focuses on Maghrebi and West African patients using private health services in Tunisia (spaces, networks, experiences). At the crossroads of the triptych "mobilities, globalization, and health", her work has a strong spatial lens (multi-scalar analyses), is based on a cross-cutting thematics (geography of mobilities, regional and health) and mixed methods of research (quantitative, qualitative). Since July 2021, she is a postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator of the HEALTH department at the Convergences Institute and an 'associate researcher' at the IRMC (Tunis).

Francisco Rowe is the lead of the Geographic Data Science Lab and a Senior Lecturer in Human Quantitative Geography at the Department of Geography and Planning within the University of Liverpool. He is also a Project Associate of the international project IMAGE: Comparing Internal Migration Around the Globe. His areas of expertise are: internal & international migration; human mobility; and computational social science. He has been invited to present his research at the United Nations Population & Development Division in New York and works closely with the International Organization for Migration, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, UK’s government organisations, including the Ordnance Survey and the ONS Data Campus, and commercial companies, Geolytix. His work contributed to the United Nations Expert group meeting on `sustainable cities, human mobility and international migration’, and the ONS Government Statistical Service Advisory Committee. Francisco is editor of REGION, the journal of the European Regional Science Association (2018-present). The international reach of his research has been recognised by an award for the best paper published in Spatial Economic Analysis in 2018 and having top articles in the top 10 most read articles in Transport Research Part C (2018), Spatial Economic Analysis (2019) & Population Studies (2019).

Professor of Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Previously Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford.

Martin’s research focuses on the economics and politics of international migration, with a strong international comparative dimension. He is particularly interested in the links between migration and wider public policies, and the tensions between diversity in national institutions (broadly conceived) and supra-national policy-making.