Each year, the Sussex Centre for Migration Research offers a number of Visiting Research Fellowships to scholars who wish to develop their research through a period of writing or library work at Sussex. It is also possible to gain a Visiting Fellowship to conduct collaborative research with Sussex faculty.
Visiting Fellows can have access to library, computing and office facilities; participate in the range of research seminars that take place in the Migration Centre and across the university; and collaborate with Sussex colleagues to plan, develop or complete specific research projects. We particularly welcome Visiting Fellows who are undertaking practical work in the migration field, and wish to take a break from this work to investigate a subject area in more depth.
Fees payable by Visiting Fellows will be required. If you are interested in becoming a Migration Centre Visiting Fellow, email migration@sussex.ac.uk
It is also possible to come to Sussex as a Visiting Student, to attend lectures and seminars in our MA or doctoral programmes. For more information, email pg.enquiries@sussex.ac.uk
Current and Recent Visiting Fellows
Ilse van Liempt (2008-2010)
Ilse completed her DPhil at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) in Amsterdam. Her book, Navigating Borders. Inside perspectives on the process of human smuggling into the Netherlands, was published in 2007. Currently she is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Sussex University researching onward migration of Somali immigrants within Europe.
Kerry Preibisch (2008-2009)
Kerry Preibisch is associate professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph who specializes in international Migration. Her research focuses on gender and migration, labor migration and global agro-food systems, as well as immigrant communities in rural Canada. Current projects include examining the new social relations of agriculture in the Global North, immigrant farm workers' health, and immigration to rural Canada.
John Davies (2008-2009)
John has been working extensively on vulnerability in migration and on maximising the benefits of migration for the poor. His most recent work has been with the Bangladesh Trade Support Programme building the capacity of the Bangladesh Government to negotiate labour market access for less skilled migrants.
Iman Hashim (2005-08)
Iman is an anthropologist working on child labour and child migration in Ghana. She is collaborating with the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty.
Chris Parsons (2005-07)
Chris is an economist, who is currently ODI Fellow working in the Ministry of Trade in Sierra Leone. He is collaborating with us both in the development and use of the Global Migrant Origin Database.
Susan Thieme (2006-07)
Susan is a development geographer based at the University of Zurich. She is working on a project on migration and livelihoods in India and Kazakhstan, and will be based at Sussex in the Autumn term of 2006.
Anastasia Christou (2006)
Anastasia is a cultural geographer, working on the return of Greek Americans to Greece. During 2005, Anastasia worked as Lecturer in Cultural Geography at Sussex.
Ronald Kalyango (2006)
Ronald is Lecturer in Women's Studies at Makerere University, Uganda, and holds a British Council Visiting Fellowship at the Centre from May-June 2006. He is working on internal displacement and gender issues in Uganda.
Abdur Rafique (2006)
Rafique is employed as Research Officer on a project on social protection of temporary work migrants in West Bengal, funded by the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty. He is Visiting Fellow at the Centre from April-June 2006.