Dr Majella Kilkey and Obert Tawodzera attended the UK Social Policy Association’s Annual Conference, held between 8th and 10th July at Durham University, and which had the theme Securing the Future: the Challenge for Social Policy. Their paper, Care and…
At the recent IMISCOE conference held at Malmö University, Sweden, June 2019, Prof Louise Ryan, University of Sheffield, and Dr Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska, University of Warsaw & University of Birmingham organised a session entitled: Developing theories to understand mobilities and settling…
by Jared Margulies, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield On Monday June 10th, The Migration Research Group (MRG) hosted a special screening of the new documentary Border South with filmmaker Raúl O. Paz Pastrana. Border South had its world premiere…
Following the success of the cross-faculty workshop ‘Conceptions of migration’, hosted by the Migration Research Group (MRG), the ‘Hub’ Migration of the Department of History (History Migration Hub) and the Medieval and Ancient Research Centre of the University of Sheffield…
As part of her Visiting Professorship, Louise visited Warsaw in May. During her stay she presented a number of seminar papers as well as attending the kick off meeting of the new project: Grandparenting at a distance: beliefs and practices…
by Professor Louise Ryan, Department of Sociological Studies and Co-Director of the Migration Research Group On 23rd January, the Migration Research Group (MRG), the ‘Hub’ Migration of the Department of History (History Migration Hub) and the Medieval and Ancient Research…
After attending the G20 Argentina summit with a team from Global Policy, Alex Kirby-Reynolds writes that policymakers need to consider the true costs of new digital technologies, including their impact on inequality and the fuelling of the flames of the…
Within social sciences funding there is increasing emphasis on the reanalysis of existing data. Entire funding streams are dedicated to secondary analysis – though usually the focus is on quantitative datasets. Nonetheless, many researchers continue to seek opportunities to collect…
Migration Research @ Sheffield’s Co-Directors Dr. Majella Kilkey (Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield) and Professor Louise Ryan (Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield) have published a piece titled ‘What EU migration has done for the UK’. Contrary to the negative…
Prof Louise Ryan, Co-Director of the Migration Research Group, has published a new article in Sociology, co-authored with Dr Umut Erel. This paper builds on the body of work by both authors. In the context of Brexit and changing immigration…