Speakers & Biographies
Dr Bridget Anderson (Senior Researcher and Programme Head, COMPAS, University of Oxford).
Bridget co-authored last year’s Fair Enough? Central and East European Low wage migrants in low wage employment in the UK for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. She is a sociologist by training, has worked with undocumented women migrants for numerous years, both in the UK and in Europe, and has written extensively to academic and policy-making audiences.
Dr Jane Hardy (Economics, Hertfordshire Business School)
Jane is currently principal investigator on the ESRC funded project entitled 'Cross Border Trade Union Collaboration and Polish Migrant Workers in Britain'. She has written and published on trade union and gender aspects of Polish transformation.
Dr Samantha Currie (Europe in the World Centre, and the Department of Law, University of Liverpool).
As a member of the Jean Monet EWC Migration Unit at Liverpool, Samantha’s research interests focus on the status and experiences of Polish migrant workers following the 2004 enlargement of the EU.
Ian Fitzgerald (Sustainable Cities Research Institute, Northumbria University)
Ian has undertaken a number of of TUC Polish recruitment and organising projects. He currently senior researcher on the ESRC funded project entitled 'Cross Border Trade Union Collaboration and Polish Migrant Workers in Britain'.
Dr Alison Stenning (Co-Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies and the Department of Geography, University of Newcastle).
Alison recently co-authored a report for the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) entitled Assessing the Local and Regional Impacts of International Migration and she has written extensively on issues of work, class, community and the economy, particularly in east central Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Professor Jane Wills (Director of The City Centre and the Department of Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London).
Jane is currently the principal investigator on the ESRC-sponsored Global Cities at Work: Migrant Labour in Low Paid Employment in London, and she written extensively about what changes in work mean for politics, the organisation of labour and power relations.
Catherine May (Programme Coordinator, UK Poverty Programme in England).
Dave McCall (North West Regional Secretary TGWU and Chair of the North West Migrant Workers Institute).
Simon Pemberton (Merseyside Social Inclusion Observatory).Simon is the Manager of the Merseyside Social Inclusion Observatory based within the Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool. In this role he has taken forward a number of important research projects, including studies of intergenerational exclusion and economic exclusion within NRF communities as well as the dynamics of populations within deprived neighbourhoods.