MRG Members

PhD title: Navigating migration regimes to receive and provide care: Sri Lankan graduate students in the UK
- Migration regimes
- Transnational care
- Labour migration
- Postcoloniality

I am a feminist critical geographer focused on postcolonial contexts in the domains of mobilities, borders and citizenship; urban inequalities; and digitisation and governance.

Violence against women & girls at the intersection of gender, race, border & migration
Gender-based violence
Intersection of gender, race & ethnicity in employment relations
Domestic violence

Theories of race & racism
Theories of identity
Muslim minorities
Multiculturalism & citizenship
Critical whiteness & ‘mixed race’ studies
Inter-generational relations
Qualitative methods

Sex work
Modern slavery & trafficking
Scholar-activism & social justice
Migration
Alternatives to/the abolition of the police
Feminist methodologies, including participatory research

Everyday policing and punishment
Being and belonging in the city
The politics of crisis
Concepts of urban justice

Law

Diaspora politics
Transnational political mobilisation and social movements
Migration governance
Global Politics
International Political Sociology
Global History
Connected Sociologies

My research addresses concerns within political and development geography, primarily in relation to sub-Saharan Africa.

Transnational families
Transnational political economy of care
Migration and transformations

Women, gender and Islam in South Asia

Migration policies
‘Race’ & multicultural strategies
Immigration; community
Family
Transnational relationships
Work & leisure among migrants
Forced labour

Migration

Health inequalities
Social determinants of health
Intersectionality
Collective action and empowerment
Lived experience and communities
Ethnography and storytelling
Critical policy analysis
Anti-racism
Roma

Current Teaching: BA Applied Social Sciences

Research interests:

- Migration studies
- Mixed-method research
- Attitudes to migration
- Social cohesion and ethnic diversity

My research aims to highlight the importance of a psychosocial decolonial perspective to development, exploring the interplay of the body and the mind in development interventions.

My research interests include urban marginality, urban governance, housing and labour market inequalities, group stigmatisation, Gypsy-Travellers and Roma, and the sociology of Norbert Elias.

Dr Ramos Villar's interest in Portuguese American life writing comes from a desire to give value to how working class, ordinary lives, write or speak about their lives.

My research focuses on migration histories and the experiential qualities of place. This includes how landscape architecture responds to contexts of superdiveristy and plurality of values.

- Social and political determinants of health
- Racial health and wellbeing inequalities in the UK
- Gender and reproductive health in South Asia
- Participatory and anti-racist research methodologies

Family, youth studies, & childhood
Relationships between service providers & families
Ethnicity, multiculture, migration & superdiversity
Care circulation
Qualitative methodologies
University-community collaboration

Lecturer in Information Systems researching digital inclusion, migration, and feminist ICT approaches for social justice. SFHEA. Associate Editor, Journal of Information Technology for Development.