COMPAS Associates

Research Associateships at COMPAS are open to academics, practitioners and policy makers who may require association with COMPAS to support work on a designated task or project connected to the Centre’s own  research. We also accept applications from those with expertise related to a particular COMPAS cluster theme or as recognition of significant contribution to the Centre’s development.  

Associateships are usually held for one academic year or a specified period of time (e.g. the length of a project), although this period can be extended where the contribution continues to be useful.  We are happy to consider external applications for Research Associate Status, but applicants must have a senior member of COMPAS staff willing to act as link-person. This link-person will be responsible for submitting your application to the relevant Management Committee meeting (once each term) for approval.

Manolo Abella

Manolo Abella, an economist, was formerly the Director of the International Migration Programme of the ILO in Geneva More >

Oliver Bakewell

Oliver Bakewell is a Research Officer at the International Migration Institute, part of the Oxford Martin School. More >

Alex Betts

Alexander Betts is Rose Research Fellow in International Relations at Lady Margaret Hall.  More >

Igor Calzada

Igor Calzada is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Basque Foundation for Science, Ikerbasque More >

Alessio Cangiano

Alessio Cangiano is a demographer working on migration and the economic integration of migrants in the UK and Europe.  More >

Stephen Castles

Stephen Castles is a Senior Research Associate and Research Chair in Sociology at the University of Sydney More >

Katharine Charsley

Katharine Charsley is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol.  More >

Robin Cohen

Robin Cohen is a Senior Research Associate at COMPAS, Director of the International Migration Institute, Oxford Martin School More >

Elizabeth Collett

Elizabeth Collett is European Policy Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), and Senior Advisor to MPI's Transatlantic Council on Migration. More >

Cathryn Costello

Cathryn Costello is a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford and a member of the Faculty of Law. More >

Alan Gamlen

Alan Gamlen is a Lecturer at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington More >

Hein de Haas

Hein de Haas is a Research Officer at the International Migration Institute, part of the Oxford Martin School.  More >

Ruchi Hajela

Ruchi Hajela is a Research Assistant at The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford. More >

Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath (PhD, Cambridge) is a Lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Oxford, and an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Alberta. More >

Sondra Hausner

Sondra Hausner is University Lecturer in the Study of Religion at Oxford. More >

Shira Klein

Shira Klein is a doctoral candidate in the Departments of History and Judaic Studies at New York University.  More >

Phil Martin

Philip Martin holds a Chair, UC Davies on UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program and is Editor of the monthly Migration News and the Quarterly Rural Migration News. More >

Derek McGhee

Derek McGhee is Deputy Head of Social Sciences (Research and Enterprise) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton. More >

Rinus Penninx

Rinus Penninx is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He founded the University's Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES). More >

Deborah Phillips

Deborah Phillips is a Lecturer in Geography and Visiting Reader, Geography at Jesus College, University of Oxford. More >

Frank Pieke

Previously, Frank Pieke headed the COMPAS Programme on 'Sending Contexts'. He is University Lecturer of the Modern Politics More >

Cinzia Rienzo

Cinzia Rienzo is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at Sussex University.  More >

Ali Rogers

Ali Rogers is the Editor of Global Networks: A journal of transnational affairs and the COMPAS Working Papers series.  More >

Peter Scholten

Peter Scholten is Associate Professor Public Policy & Politics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.  More >

Elizabeth Shlala

Elizabeth is a Teaching and Visiting Research Fellow in the International History Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  More >

Alison Shaw

Alison has a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology and has conducted extensive research on Pakistani migration and settlement in the UK. More >

Isabel Shutes

Isabel Shutes is a lecturer in Social Policy at the London School of Economics More >

Nando Sigona

Dr Nando Sigona is Birmingham Fellow and Lecturer at the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham More >

Ellie Vasta

Ellie Vasta is a Senior Research Associate at COMPAS, having previously been a Senior Researcher (2003-09). More >

Steve Vertovec

Steven Vertovec is Former Director of COMPAS (2003-7) and currently Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity based in Gottingen, Germany.
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Fiona Williams

Fiona Williams is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Leeds More >

Christopher Wilson

Chris Wilson is a demographer based at the University of St Andrews in the School of Geography & Geosciences, Department of Geography & Sustainable Development.  More >