Professor Alice Bloch and Professor Roger Zetter are joint project directors with overall responsibility for all aspects of the project and the delivery of the reports. Alice Bloch is also the principal investigator and manages day to day running and the budget. Nando Sigona is the full-time senior researcher on the project.
CV & publications
Prof Alice Bloch (a.bloch@city.ac.uk) has carried out qualitative and quantitative research with refugees and migrants and focus groups with refugee and migrant organisational representatives. She has trained and managed teams of interviewers and has included capacity building components to her research. Recent relevant projects include: research with Zimbabweans in the UK and South Africa (IOM 2004-5); refugees’ barriers to employment (DWP 2001-2002) and research with Somalis in the UK (Refuge Action 2002). She has also published papers on methodological issues in research with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.

CV & publications

Prof Roger Zetter (roger.zetter@qeh.ox.ac.uk) is the director of the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford). He has over 25 years experience in research with refugees, asylum seekers and other migrant populations in the UK, Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. His experience is reflected in a highly developed awareness of the sensitivities raised by research with vulnerable groups, as well as the ethical safeguards and protocols which it demands. Field experience has been based on a variety of data collection and analytical methods appropriate to this research project including ethnographies, narrative, testimony and oral and life histories and key informants surveys. Recent research projects forming the context for the current project have been funded by ESRC (2002-3) on Refugee Community-Based Organisations, three projects for the Home Office (2000-3) on The Impact of Asylum Policies in Europe, Dispersal Policies for Asylum Seekers in the UK, and Asylum Reception Policy and Process in Europe, European Commission European Refugee Fund (2002-3) Survey on Policy and Practice Related to Refugee Integration, Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2004-5), Immigration, Social Capital and Social Cohesion: What are the Links? and four projects for the Housing Corporation (1997-2003) on Social Housing Provision for Refugees and Asylum Seekers

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Dr Nando Sigona (nando.sigona@qeh.ox.ac.uk) has done research on minority and migration issues at the EU level and in EUMS. His work focuses in particular on three research areas: forced migration and EU policy and practice; migrant communities’ claim making and mobilisation; and Romany politics and social exclusion. He has worked on a number of research project funded by, among the others, UK Home Office, EU, OSCE, Refugee Housing Association. He is also research programme coordinator of osservAzione, an independent action research group working on anti-racism in Italy.
Community Interviewers
Janroj Keles (janroj.yum@gmail.com) has researched on
transnational media, representation and identity and transnational Kurdish and Turkish communities’ attitudes to use of information/communication technologies in Germany, Sweden and in the UK. He is currently working as research fellow on an ESRC project on ‘Influences of identity, community and social networks on ethnic minority representation at work’ at WLRI, Metropolitan University.
He is currently a PhD candidate at Brunel University (London).

Tom Lam (tomlam.yum@gmail.com) has, in the 1990s, undertaken research on the settlement of Vietnamese refugees in the UK and in China. In recent years he has been involved primarily in studies on Chinese communities in London. He has contributed to research on older people's needs and has sat in management committees of two grassroots communities in London.

Thoko Mazura (zile08.yum@googlemail.com) is an advisory committee member of the Zimbabwe Association - a non-partisan refugee and asylum seekers support group - a Trustee of the Bedford African & Caribbean Forum and a Mentor at Nyabing, a user-led Mental Health Group. She holds a BA (Hons) Social Work, DMU and a Certificate in Community Research, UCLAN. In 2006-2007 she contributed to a Community Engagement Research Project, commissioned by the Dept of Health (NIMHE), in partnership with the Centre of Ethnicity & Health at University of Central Lancashire.
Oleg Pasichnyi (oleg.yum@gmail.com) has conducted research with recent Ukrainian communities in the UK. He has completed the Social Policy & Administration degree at Roehampton University and is a member of Community Advocates’ Network (REAP). He is a lead organiser of Ukrainian Migrants Network with many years of experience in working with asylum seekers, refugees and both regular and irregular migrants from Eastern European, particularly from Ukraine and other ex-Soviet states.
Ana Souza (ana.yum@gmail.com) has conducted research with the Brazilian community in the UK. Her work focuses on language and identity issues from the perspective of Brazilian heritage women and children. She is a member of GEB (the Brazilian Immigrants in the UK Research Group) and the Community Languages Research Group. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London.


Steering Committee Members:

  • Bridget Anderson, Compas, University of Oxford
  • Robert Bell, PHF
  • Robert Dufton, PHF
  • Ghirmay Habteghaber
  • Arten Llazari, Wolverhampton Asylum and Refugee Services
  • Rosemary Sales, Middlesex University
  • Emma Stone, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  • Kirsteen Tait, PHF