28th May 2021. We were pleased to welcome Sivamohan Valluvan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Warwick, to present his recent book: The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in Twenty-First Century Britain (Manchester University Press 2019). Sivamohan has written widely on debates of race and racism, nationalism and multiculture, as well as…
30th April 2021. We were pleased to welcome Zana Vathi, Reader in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University and Director of the Migration Working Group – North West. She specialises in migration studies and has been doing research in this field since 2005. Her main areas of interest are migrants’ inclusion and politics of integration…
19th March 2021. We were pleased to welcome Emma Hill, University of Edinburgh, to discuss the role of asylum in urban gentrification. Emma is an interdisciplinary researcher, with expertise in displaced migration in the Global North, race, migration and decolonisation, and is currently a Research Fellow on the Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and…
30th November 2020. Adrian Favell, PI of Northern Exposure, has published a book review on ‘Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit’ by Ben Rogaly, in the journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Ben Rogaly was a recent guest speaker as part of our (Red) Walls, (Brexit) Borders…
25th November 2020. In this joint webinar, Northern Exposure and the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) are pleased to welcome author Ben Rogaly to present his new book: Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit.
16th November 2020. We are excited to release the first recording of our seminar series (Red) Walls, (Brexit) Borders and (Pandemic) Politics. In this series, we invite speakers relevant to the themes of our research, and build discussions that bring together academic and practitioner perspectives. The recordings will be released in order, one per week,…
12th November 2020. Albert Varela and Adrian Favell (both of Northern Exposure) contributed as discussants to a presentation by Gwilym Price (Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics, University of Sheffield), titled Researching the local employment impacts of immigration: which way now? The event was co-sponsored by the Sheffield Migration Research Group and the project…
21st October 2020. We were pleased to welcome authors from University of Huddersfield, to present key arguments and concerns from their new book: ‘Race’, Space and Multiculturalism in Northern England: The (M62) Corridor of Uncertainty.
16th September 2020. We were pleased to welcome to our webinar, authors Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford to present their new book: Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics.
1st July 2020. We were delighted to host a keynote talk by Jon Lawrence, Professor of Modern British History, University of Exeter, and author of: Me, Me, Me? The Search for Community in Post-war England.
