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I am a final-year PhD candidate in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I am also a scholar of the ESCR North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) and a member of the Statistical Modelling research group at the Cathie Marsh Institute (CMI). I am interested in modelling and forecasting demographic events, particularly, migration. I have an interest in Bayesian statistics, integrating different data sources and hierarchical modelling.

Hanne Apers (female) is a PhD-candidate at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS, University of Antwerp). She obtained a Bachelor in Psychology at University of Ghent (2009), a Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven (2011), as well as a Master of Science in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology at Brunel University, London (2012).

After working as a social counselor in the non-profit sector in Brussels (Lhiving vzw), she has gained research experience at the Institute of Tropical Medicine from 2016 to 2019, where she has done research on HIV-prevention in the European HERMETIC-project, and the Flemish HIV-SAM project.

From January 2019, she has been engaged at CeMIS in the H2020 MICADO project on newcomer integration across Europe, developing and applying co-creative research methods to facilitate migrant integration through the development of a digital tool.

Currently, she is conducting PhD-research focusing on the intersection of migration and mental health among recent newcomers with a sub-Saharan African background, living in Belgium, and is a guest lecturer on the topic of migration and health in the bachelor course ‘Interdisciplinary perspectives on migration and integration’, as well as in the bachelor course ‘Doctor and Society’ at the faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Dr Kristine Aquino is a sociologist and urban ethnographer. Her research is broadly concerned with global Filipino migration, race and racism in everyday life, diversity in Australian and Asian cities, and migrant practices of transnationalism. Her first book 'Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora' (2018) explores Filipino migration to Australia and grounds larger questions about race, citizenship, nationhood and anti-racism in lived experiences.Kristine's current work examines the intersection between leisure practices and urban place-making in the lives of male Filipino migrant workers in Singapore.

Multilingual and multicultural human geographer specialized in matters of citizenship, mobility and, territoriality in the outskirts of labour markets within politically complex supranational contexts. Exploring the interlinks between everyday geopolitics and social stratification from a feminist geographical perspective. Extensive fieldwork experience.

Solon Ardittis is Chairman and Managing Director of Eurasylum Ltd. He has over 30 years of experience in research, evaluation and policy development in the fields of immigration, asylum, employment policy and education in Europe and internationally. He has directed or contributed to over 100 research, evaluation and programme management assignments in over 50 countries, on behalf of various Directorates-General of the European Commission (DG Migration & Home Affairs, DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, DG International Cooperation and Development, DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, DG Regional Policy, DG Research and Innovation, DG Environment, DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, and the Secretariat General), the European Parliament, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Frontex, national government authorities, international organisations (ILO, UNDP, IOM, NATO) and academia. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and a Research Associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) of the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of over 100 publications on migration and asylum policy, as well as on terrorism, and a regular commentator on current EU migrant/refugee policy developments in a wide range of European and US media. He is also the founder and co-editor of Migration Policy Practice, a bimonthly journal directed at senior officials in Government, EU institutions and international organisations published jointly with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).