Neil is a doctoral student researching international anti-trafficking policy in the Department of International Development. His work falls principally within the field of political anthropology and focuses on international discourses of child trafficking and how these discourses are used and abused by major international institutions and governments in the creation of anti-trafficking policy. Before Oxford, Neil studied Modern Languages and Literature, was a youth worker in East and West Africa as well as in East London, and was a founder member of the 'Society for the Abolition of Migration Controls', a research and advocacy group working to bring an end to draconian border policy in the UK and elsewhere. Currently, he is involved in researching comparative experiences of childhood poverty with the the Young Lives Project at Oxford.