Experts Database

Steph Hanlon is the Programme Director for the BA (Honours) in Social, Political and Community Studies in Carlow College.

Her background is in politics and sociology and her research specialism is in migration, citizenship, and border criminology. Steph is a PhD candidate in the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, where her research focudes on the anticipatory criminalisation of marriage migration.

Nacera Haouchine is a full-time PhD student in International Relations at Keele university, UK. She is based in the School of Social, Political and Global Studies (SPGS). Her research focuses on migration and security studies. She delivered several seminars on Securing Global Order and she is lecturing on Human Rights and Global Politics. Nacera is a former editor of Under Constrcution @ keele Journal (@UCKeele) and she is currently an editorial assistant for IDEA Journal (@journal_idea) and a blog editor for IMISCOE PhD Blog (@IMISCOE_PhD).

G. 'Hari' Harindranath is a Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Digital Innovation & Management, School of Business & Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. Hari holds a doctorate in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and his research centres on the social and organisational implications of digital technologies, including ICT for development.

Hari is Co-Investigator on the 5-year (2019-2024, £20 million), UKRI GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub (MIDEQ), led by Coventry University. He is the Royal Holloway lead for the work package on ‘Digital technologies, inequality and migration' which seeks to understand the extent and ways through which digital technologies alleviate or exacerbate existing inequalities in the context of South-South migration, as well as successes and challenges facing the use of digital technologies for migrant-related development outcomes. It also considers how the potential benefits of digital tech can be leveraged to ensure that the developmental benefits of migration are harnessed and increased, particularly through reducing inequalities in access, use and outcomes. See more details at: https://ict4d.org.uk/technology-inequality-and-migration/ and at https://www.mideq.org/en/themes/digital-technologies-and-inequality/.

Loksan Harley is a UK-based multilingual British-Chinese independent migration, development, and protection expert with extensive experience working with the United Nations, governments, and non-profits in research, project management, capacity-building and technical assistance across Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. He holds a BA in economics from McGill University and an MSc in public policy and management from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he has also lectured on migration policy.