Sarah Spencer CBE COMPAS Senior Fellow

sarah.spencer@compas.ox.ac.uk

Dr Sarah Spencer – list of publications (PDF)

Dr Sarah Spencer is a Senior Fellow at COMPAS, where she was Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity from its inception in 2014 until March 2019. She is a former Deputy Director of COMPAS and, from 2018-2022, was Chair of the Board of Directors of IMISCOE, the International Migration Research Network.

Sarah’s research and publications focus on migrants with an irregular status, including currently, as PI on Local Responses to Precarious Migrants: Frames, Strategies and Evolving Practices in Europe (LoReMi); on integration, human rights and equality issues. Sarah was awarded her doctorate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, has an MPhil from University College London, and took her first degree at the University of Nottingham.

At the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity, Sarah was the Director of its Autumn Academy symposium from 2016-2018. She was responsible for its award-winning online tool to assess the eligibility of migrant families for local authority support. Until September 2021, Sarah was Co-Director of the City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE) with Nicola Delvino, with whom she won a 2021 Excellence in Impact Award. Before Oxford, Sarah was Chair of the national network of equality organisations, the Equality and Diversity Forum; Deputy Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality; and Director of Liberty.

Topics

CitiesEuropean UnionIntegrationPoliciesPoliticsRightsWelfare

Projects

Action towards inclusion in Europe

Sarah Spencer and Nathan Grassi | December 2014 - June 2016

Attitudes to Migrants, Communication and Local Leadership (AMICALL)

Sarah Spencer, Michael Keith and COMPAS Communications | 2011 – 2012

City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE)

Myriam Cherti, Sarah Spencer, Nicola Delvino, Marie Mallet-Garcia and Nathan Grassi | Phase I: 2017-19 | Phase II: 2020-22

Equality for whom?

Sarah Spencer | 2010 – 2011

Impact of Admission Criteria on the Integration of Migrants (IMPACIM)

Sarah Spencer | December 2011 – October 2012

Inclusive Cities

Sarah Spencer, Jacqui Broadhead and Denis Kierans | March 2017 - December 2023

Local Responses to Precarious Migrants: Frames, Strategies and Evolving Practices in Europe (LoReMi)

Sarah Spencer and Marie Mallet-Garcia | March 2021 - October 2022

Marriage Migration and Integration

Sarah Spencer | 2013 – 2015

Migration Services in Wales

Sarah Spencer, Carlos Vargas-Silva and COMPAS Communications | January 2015 – March 2017

Muslims and Community Cohesion in Britain

Sarah Spencer and COMPAS Communications | June 2005 – June 2007

Online Tool to Improve the Assessment of Destitute Families’ Eligibility for Support

Sarah Spencer and Jacqui Broadhead | May 2016 - May 2019

Utrecht Refugee Launchpad

Sarah Spencer and COMPAS Communications | November 2016 - October 2019