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Experienced social researcher with a background in politics and international relations as well as regional experience in the Western Balkans, particularly post-conflict issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Applying qualitative methods to understand the global interactions of political organisations with a special focus on transnational networks resulting from migration.

I am an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow. My thesis focuses on the political and institutional effects of long-term remittance dependency in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. I am associated with the ERC's MOBSANCT research project and LSE IDEAS foreign policy think-tank. Prior to doctoral studies, I completed an MSc in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lan Anh Hoang is Associate Professor in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne. She received her MA and PhD in Development Studies from the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, Singapore, before joining the University of Melbourne in January 2011. Lan was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore in 2013-2014.

Her research has been published in many prestigious journals such as Gender and Society, Gender, Place and Culture, Global Networks, Population, Space and Place, Geoforum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Asian Studies Review, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is author of ‘Vietnamese migrants in Russia: mobility in times of uncertainty’ (Amsterdam University Press 2020) and co-editor of ‘Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances, and the Changing Family in Asia' (2015) and ‘Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia’ (2019).

Lan’s current project examines brokerage and migrant networks in the Vietnam-Australia migration corridor. She is Regional Editor (Mainland Southeast Asia) of Asian Studies Review, Thematic Editor (Migration) of Development in Practice, and Associate Editor of Springer's Global Vietnam book series. Lan co-edited the Palgrave Macmillan book series 'Anthropology, Change, and Development' from 2013 to 2021 and is currently sitting on the International Advisory Board of Feminist Theory. She was a development worker in Vietnam before entering academia.

With over twenty years’ experience in international migration policy, communications, public affairs and lobbying, Glen is the founder of the think tank Free Trade Europa, which focuses on promoting free trade, openness and the rule of law within the European Union and internationally. Glen also leads a stakeholder initiative on the platform economy, future of work and migration in the Nordics. Glen is also the host of "The New Gig": a podcast on - and for - migrants and the dynamic workforce of today.

Glen was previously responsible for the Nordics, Baltics and Central & Eastern Europe within an international communications agency. Prior to this he worked for the European institutions as well as governments, blue-chip international companies, start-ups and NGOs as a lobbyist, strategist and communications advisor.

Glen was also the Secretary General of a European trade association for five years. Today, Glen is a respected commentator on European affairs, as well as a frequent presenter, moderator and panellist at European policy events. Glen is also a trainer and coach on technology, migration, labour force, transport and sustainability policy as well as communications techniques for the public and private sectors.

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.