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DSC_0160Paul Statham is Professor of Migration and Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR) in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS).
Paul is a political sociologist and his current research focuses on three fields:...

 

SureepornSureeporn Punpuing is the Director of the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University. Her research focuses primarily on cross-border migration, migration and family & elderly left behind’s depression, population-environment interactions and health. Dr Punpuing used to work as a Population Affairs Officer at United Nations (Head quarter) in New York City, a...

 

Aphichat-ChamratrithirongAphichat Chamratrithirong is Professor emeritus in Sociology and Director of the Mahidol Migration Center. His research interests are HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Evaluation; Adolescent Study; Population and Development; Reproductive Health; Migration; Social Demography. For more information please see Chamratrithirong personal page.

 

Helen Helen Brunt is based in Bangkok, Thailand at the Secretariat of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN). Prior to moving to Thailand in 2014, she was based in Malaysia for 10 years working with populations of stateless people, migrants and refugees. She holds an MA in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation from the University of Sussex

 

DSC_0160Pattraporn Chuenglertsiri is a researcher at Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University (IPSR). Pattraporn has received her BA in International Relations (1st class honours) (Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand). She has received her master’s degree (MSc) in Social Studies of Gender at Lund University, Sweden

 

PriyaPriya Deshingkar is Research Director of the Migrating out of Poverty Research Consortium and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Global Studies. Her research focuses on internal migration and poverty with a focus on precarious occupations, debt-migration, labour rights and agency. She holds a PhD from the Institute

 

Máiréad Dunne is a Professor in the Sociology of Education and director of the Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are with social inequalities in the Global south, and most recently she has looked at Youth Identities (nation, religion and gender). A recognition of the workings of power in global, national, regional, local and domestic relations is...

 

Anne-Meike FecherAnne-Meike Fechter is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Global Studies. Her main areas of research are migration and mobility, development, and aid workers. She has conducted extensive field work in Southeast Asia, especially in Cambodia and Indonesia.
Meike’s research concerns migration and mobility in a broad sense, including...

 

FieldingTony Fielding is Research Professor in Human Geography at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He is also an active member of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. He was awarded a PhD in Applied Geography from the London School of Economics in 1965 six months after joining the new University of Sussex as a Research Fellow/Assistant Lecturer.

 

MagnusMarsdenMagnus Marsden is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Asia Centre at the University of Sussex. His work is centrally concerned with the study of Asia’s Muslim societies. Magnus has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, as well as with diasporic communities from this region in the Gulf, Eastern Europe, and China. He is the author of Living Islam: Muslim...

 

areeAree Prohmmo has a degree in nursing and doctoral degree in demography. She is currently an independent health and population consultant based in New Zealand, but has kept close contacts with colleagues and universities in Thailand. She was previously a university senior lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Nursing of Khon Kaen University and an assistant professor at the Institute for Population

 

KerryKerry Richter is a Special Professor at the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand and the Associate Editor for the Journal of Population and Social Studies. For more information please see Richter personal page.

 

Dusita PhuengsamranDusita Phuengsamran has 16 years of research experience in population studies and public health. She currently works as Lecturer at Mahidol University, teaching Behavioral and Social Dimension of AIDS. Her research focuses on the areas of HIV and AIDS, key populations, and size estimations of hidden population, using both qualitative and quantitative data collection.

 

SarahPicSarah Scuzzarello is a Research Fellow in Cross-national Comparative Politics at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR). Her research focuses mainly on comparative politics with a focus on the politics of citizenship, migration and integration. Sarah’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing from politics and political psychology.

 

Ron SkeldonRonald Skeldon  is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Sussex and Professor of Human Geography at Maastricht University. Trained at the Universities of Glasgow (BSc Hons) and Toronto (MA; PhD), he completed his doctoral research on migration in Peru. He later worked in Papua New Guinea for the Australian National University and throughout the Asia and Pacific region for the United...

 

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Saowapak Suksinchai is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Population and Social Research. For more information please see Saowapak personal page.
 

 

Sirijit.sunantaSirijit Sunanta is assistant professor in Sociology and Anthropology and chair of the PhD Program in Multicultural Studies at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University. She received her PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 2009. Sirijit has taught graduate courses on Gender Studies, Globalization and Cross-Border Cultures, Migration and Transnationalism, and Theory in Multicultural Studies.

 

foto_alexAlexander Trupp is currently based as lecturer at the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University and acts as editor-in-chief of the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS). He obtained a doctoral degree in Theoretical and Applied Geography from the University of Vienna, Austria. Alexander worked as visiting professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia (RILCA), Mahidol University

 

maya_unnithanMaya Unnithan is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Health and Technologies (CORTH) at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in the anthropology of the body, childbirth and infertility, reproductive technologies, family planning, mobility, health inequities and human rights. She has carried out long term field...

 

Marc Voelker Marc Völker is a Lecturer at the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, Thailand. He teaches environmental and development economics, and research methods for social sciences. His research focuses on the valuation of ecosystem services, synergies between population health promotion and environmental protection...

 

WattersCharles Watters is professor of Wellbeing and Social Care University of Sussex. Watters is an internationally renowned expert in mental health and social care for migrants. His research includes a comparative study into the mental health and social care of refugees in four European countries on behalf of the European Commission and studies of reception arrangements for asylum seekers across...

 

L Alan Winters is Professor of Economics in the University of Sussex and Chief Executive Officer of the Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium (based in Sussex and funded by DFID). He is a Research Fellow and former Programme Director for International Trade at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London and a Fellow of IZA, Bonn. From 2008 to 2011 he was...

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