Symposium: Summary of DAINA CEEYouth Research Project

Professor Anne White – is Professor of Polish Studies and Social and Political Science at University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). She holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her current research interests focus on migration in general, on social change in Poland and on Polish migration. Most of her fieldwork consists of in-depth interviews conducted across a range of locations in Poland. Her publications include Polish Families and Migration since EU Accession (Bristol: Policy Press, 2nd edition 2017) and three other monographs.

She runs the Polish Migration Website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/research/polish-migration

Professor Daniela Sime – is Professor of Youth, Migration and Social Justice in the School of Social Work & Social Policy. Her research interests are in the areas of social justice and inequalities, with a focus on children and young people's education, participation in society and equal opportunities. She is currently working on a research project on the impact of the pandemic on young EU nationals living in the UK. Previously, she led an ESRC-funded project which looked at issues of identity, citizenship and belonging among Central and Eastern European young people in the UK in light of Brexit and its impact on EU nationals' rights (see www.migrantyouth.org). Between 2016-2018, she was a British Academy mid-Career Fellow, researching young people's experiences of poverty and stigma in times of austerity. Her research sits within the Children, Young People and Families research group, which she lead in the School. Her research has been supported by funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, British Academy, Scottish Government and NGOs. She regularly provides consultancy and training for local authorities and NGOs in her specialist areas. She teaches undergraduate courses in Social Policy, and also coordinates the postgraduate Research Skills Programme in the Faculty. Before she started as a lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in 2005, she worked in the Centre for the Child and Society at the University of Glasgow and in the School of Education at the University of Stirling, where she also got her Ph.D. in Education in 2004. She has been member of grant panels for Carnegie (Scotland) and Fundacio Para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal) and elected member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland (2014-20119).

Dr Aija Lulle – is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University. Before joining the Loughborough Geography Department in 2018, she worked as the main researcher on the EU Horizon 2020 ‘YMOBILITY’ project at the University of Sussex, researching youth mobilities across Europe (2015-2018). she was also a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland where she researched migrant children and families (2016-2018). She defended her PhD in Human Geography at the University of Latvia in 2014.

Dr Violetta Parutis –is a Senior Survey Officer on Understanding Society (UKHLS) and is responsible for fieldwork monitoring and various other survey management activities. She is also working closely with the participant liaison team and the comms team to develop participant communications and engagement activities, and leading the Associated Studies programme. Her research interests include: Migration, Ethnicity, Identity, Qualitative research methods, Survey methods, particularly survey participation and mixed modes, Surveys of migrants and ethnic minorities.

Professor Louise Ryan – chair of the Board of Trustees of the British Sociological Association (BSA). Louise, who joined London Met as a Senior Professor of Sociology in 2020 and who is director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities research centre, has become chair of the board of trustees of the BSA. Having joined the BSA as a student in the 1990s, she has been a committed member of the association ever since. Louise was elected to the board of trustees as Director of Publications in 2012 and has now been voted the chair. Founded in 1951, the BSA is the national subject association for sociologists in the UK and its primary objective is to promote sociology. The BSA is the largest sociological network in the UK and is the public face of sociology in Britain. Louise will undertake the role of chair for a two year term of office.

Professor Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska – has been a member of the Centre of Migration Research since 1998. She also holds a position as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology. Dr hab. Grzymala-Kazlowska specialises in the issues of adaptation and integration of immigrants, cultural representations and ethnic attitudes as well as new theories of migration and integration. She is an author, editor or co-editor of 6 books or special issues of academic journals as well as over 50 academic papers published, among others, in ‘Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies’, ‘Ethnicities’, ‘Canadian Diversity’ and ‘Journal of Migration and Refugee Studies’. She is a member of the Research Committee on Human Migrations and Polish Diaspora at the Polish Academy of Science and serves as an expert at the Human Rights Defender and a Deputy Editor for the journal ‘Central and Eastern European Migration Review’. She has been granted the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship.