Who We Are IAA

Laura Hammond is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Knowledge Exchange and Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has been conducting research on conflict, food security, refugees, migration, and diasporas in and from the Horn of Africa since the early 1990s.

She is the Principal Investigator of our Impact Acceleration Account on Migration, Displacement, Minorities and Marginalisation, Co-Director of the Work Package on Poverty and Inequalities for the MIDEQ Research Hub on South-South Migration, and Team Leader of the EU Trust Fund’s Research and Evidence Facility on migration and conflict in the Horn of Africa. She has consulted for UNDP, USAID, Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières, ICRC, and WFP. She is the author of ‘This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia’ (Cornell University Press: 2004) and numerous other publications.

https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/laura-hammond 

Charlotte Sanders is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology. Her research examines the logics, functions and everyday effects of borders, particularly the UK border regime, considering contemporary bordering practices in relation to colonialism, racial capitalism and heteropatriarchy.

Charlotte received her PhD from the University of Exeter in 2019, exploring Sudanese women’s everyday encounters with the state in Portsmouth. Her feminist ethnography broadened understandings of when and where borders operate and how immigration governance is resisted.

Following her PhD, Charlotte was a Senior Research Associate on an ESRC/UKRI project gathering life-story narratives with migrants experiencing homelessness in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring how UK border policies produce a racialised politics of precarity. Her current research examines the use of carceral architectures within UK immigration control. Charlotte is also training to become an OISC accredited volunteer immigration adviser.

: Iris Lim is a Project Officer for the Impact Acceleration Account, where she leads communications and supports knowledge exchange initiatives that bridge academic research with policy and practice. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London, and her research examines how marginalised communities experience and navigate digital public services. Her work on digital inclusion, user-experience research, and community engagement informs her approach to translating complex research findings for diverse audiences.

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