Biography
View a full list of Domiziana's publications here: Dr Domiziana Turcatti – list of publications (PDF)
Domiziana Turcatti serves as the Local Authority Research Practitioner for Gloucestershire County Council, as part of the NIHR Public Health Specialist Centre's national programme to build research capacity and embed evidence-based decision-making in public health. She maintains an academic affiliation with the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) and the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford.
She is a researcher specialising in the intersection of migration, inclusion, education, and public health, working across policy, academic, and community sectors. Domiziana specialises in qualitative and ethnographic methods, with a particular interest in participatory methodologies, public engagement, and knowledge exchange approaches that foster dialogue and learning between researchers, policymakers, and the third sector.
Research
In 2024-2025, Domiziana worked as Senior Social Researcher at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) on applied policy research projects on migration, inclusion, and employment.
In 2023, Domiziana worked as a Researcher at the University of Reading for the project Transnational Families in Europe: Care, Inequalities and Wellbeing – a comparative, multi-sited, qualitative project led deploying participatory methodologies to investigate the relationships between caring responsibilities, inequalities and wellbeing among different generations of transnational families in the UK, Spain, France and Sweden.
At COMPAS, in 2020-2021, Domiziana co-led the participatory research project Enhancing the Impact of Migration Research with Latin Americans in London with Prof. Carlos Vargas-Silva and the London charity Latin American House. The project aimed to understand the impact of Brexit and COVID-19 on London’s Latin American migrants by fostering connections with the community through knowledge exchange and engagement activities.
In 2020, she served as a research consultant for the project Promoting Inclusion to Combat Early School Leaving, led by the University of Seville and the International Association for Intercultural Education, and co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The project aimed to promote inclusive intercultural pedagogies by bringing together researchers and teachers from European schools (Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Croatia).
Education
Domiziana was awarded a DPhil in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford in 2023 as a Clarendon Scholar. Her doctoral thesis, The onward migration-family nexus: the lived experiences of London's onward Colombian migrants from Spain and their families, investigated how families shape and are shaped by onward migration, focusing on the experiences of onward Colombian families who moved from Spain to London.
Domiziana completed her MPhil in Sociology at the University of Cambridge in July 2019 with a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Before moving to the UK, she completed her BA in Liberal Arts and Science at Amsterdam University College, where she ventured to understand the educational experiences and the peer culture of Moroccan-Dutch youth in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Academic service
From 2020 to 2023, she served as Convener of Migration Oxford – a research network and hub that brings together migration researchers from across the University of Oxford, enhancing policymakers' and the public’s access to migration expertise in Oxford.
From 2019 to 2021, she was an active member of the IMISCOE PhD Network, and she served as editor and then co-editor-in-chief of the Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration Journal.
Media
Interview on EL CAFÉ MAÑANERO with Jorge Rivera
