TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES IN LOCAL SETTINGS
Dr Victoria Redclift
Principal Investigator
Victoria Redclift is an Associate Professor of Political Sociology at University College London, where she works on the Sociology of ‘race’, ethnicity and migration with a focus on citizenship and political exclusion. Her work pays particular attention to histories of displacement and the formation of diaspora, spatial formations of exclusion, and the negotiation of local and global ‘political space’. She is the author of Statelessness and citizenship: Camps and the creation of ‘political space’, which was shortlisted for the BSA Phillip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2014, as well as New racial landscapes: Contemporary Britain and the neoliberal conjuncture (with Malcolm James and Helen Kim). She worked at the LSE, the University of Manchester, and the University of Surrey before joining UCL in 2018.
Dr Fatima Rajina
Former Research Fellow
Dr. Fatima Rajina is a Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University. After completing her MA in Islamic Societies and Cultures at SOAS, she went on to do a PhD after successfully securing a Nohoudh Scholarship with the Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS, University of London. Completing her PhD at SOAS, Fatima's work looks at British Bangladeshi Muslims and their changing identifications and perceptions of dress and language. She has also worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge looking at police and counter-terrorism. Fatima was also a Teaching Fellow at SOAS, Research Fellow at UCL IoE, and, additionally, she worked as a Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University London.
Dr Kusha Anand
Research Fellow
Dr Kusha Anand is a Research Fellow at University College London, where she works on an ESRC funded project on transnational practices in local settings (the relationship between the local and transnational citizenship experiences of Bangladesh-origin Muslims) in London, Luton and Birmingham. Dr Anand works on the intersections of race, identity, ethnicity, citizenship and education, mainly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the UK. Her work pays particular attention to policies, practices, discourses of ‘othering’, histories of displacement, in and through education. Dr Anand was awarded her PhD at the University College London from the Institute of Education in 2019. Her thesis looked at how history related to India-Pakistan relations is enacted in schools in India and Pakistan.
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Dr Katarina Zajacova
Research Fellow
Katarina Zajacova has 15 years’ experience working as a teaching fellow, social researcher, mentor and experienced higher education sector consultant. Her research interests include the link between gender, race, social class and migration patterns. Katarina’s PhD from the University of Surrey focuses on intersection of gender, social class, age and nationality on migration experiences of Eastern and Central European domestic workers in the UK. Her expertise in gender and social equality and migration has been utilised whilst working on several research projects at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM) at the University of Surrey and Roehampton.
Katarina has also successfully delivered social research courses on facilitating focus groups, conducting qualitative interviews and on analysing qualitative data for post-doctoral researchers, civil servants and NGO employees as well as the bespoke social research courses for organisations such as the Surrey County Council and HEFCE. She has been a face of professional training, placements, national and international internships for the School of Psychology and Department of Sociology.
Katarina has a vast experience in teaching sociology, political science, psychology and business skills, tutoring and supervising adult learners, professionals and university students of all levels. She is an impassioned advocate of gender and social equality and has been writing and researching diversity and equality for many years.
Liam Carroll
Voluntary Research Assistant
Liam Carroll is presently studying for his MSc in Social Policy and Social Research Methods at University College London. His main research interests include welfare, education, employment and discrimination. He is presently in the process of completing his Masters dissertation. Prior to this most recent period of study, Liam worked for Citizens Advice in the North East of England, providing advice and support on a wide manner of topics covering welfare benefits, housing, employment, consumer rights and energy. In this role he developed a practical knowledge of the bureaucratic workings of local and national authorities, as well the nature of regulation and conditionality that accompanies state support in the UK today.
Liam gained his undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Durham, graduating in 2018. During his undergraduate degree, he also studied abroad at the Universitetet i Bergen, taking this time to broaden his knowledge on the political economy and labour market configurations of Scandinavian and Northern European countries.