Experts Index

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...

Stephanie holds a Ph.D. in Political Studies and International Relations (2019) and a Master’s degree in political and social sciences (2009). She has over 10 years of experience in academic, research, advocacy and consulting activities in international migration, refugee, forced migration, diasporas,...

Experienced financial services, AML, Compliance professional hoping to bring the traditional financial services together with new and emerging financial technology services to expand opportunities, share ideas, network and shape the industry and to involve with different Govt./ Non. Govt. agencies to...

As a Development Studies scholar, I consider myself as an interdisciplinary researcher, given that the field amalgamates several disciplines. I am particularly keen on searching for worldviews that can change both the development narrative and migration mantra within the framework of the Global South....

Stephen Damianos is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre. His research explores the usage of digital technologies within border regimes, with specific focus on the deployment of Skype within the Greek asylum procedure. Using ethnographic methods and critical phenomenological...

Passionate about inclusive market integration of vulnerable groups. I work with public and private entities promoting inclusive and market-responsive employment initiatives. I am interested in finding the sweet spots where migrants and refugees (among other vulnerable groups) and the market become productive...

Prof. (interim) Dr. Steve R. Entrich works in the fields of Sociology, Education, Teacher Training and Japanese Studies. Major research projects: PESISS: Persisting Educational and Social Inequalities in Schooled Societies, JSTS: Juku Student and Teacher Survey, LifE: Lebensverläufe von der späten Kindheit...

Steven J. Gold is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His scholarly interests include international migration, ethnic economies, ethnic community development, qualitative field methods and visual sociology. Gold is the author, co-author,...

Prof. Steven Vertovec (1957), BA University of Colorado, MA University of California Santa Barbara, DPhil University of Oxford, Dr.h.c. University of Liège, is Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Honorary Professor of Ethnology and Sociology,...

Supriya PILLI is a Ph.D. candidate in Quantitative Methods for Economic Policy Evaluation based at the Universitá Degli Studi di Macerata (Italy). She graduated with a master’s degree in finance specifically focused on statistics and econometric techniques from the Universitá di Siena (Italy). Her doctoral...

Susan Rottmann obtained her B.A. degree in Comparative Religion from Cornell University in 2001, her M.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006, and her Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. Her research specialties are ethics,...

Susana Borràs Pentinat holds a degree in Law from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), where she also obtained her Master's degree in Environmental Law and the title of Doctor with European mention and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Associate Professor of International Public Law and International...