Excellence Strategy

Living together, learning together, working together - migration in education and educational institutions

Members of the core group

Members of the Speakers' Council and

Prof. Dr. Regina Ammicht Quinn (International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities)

Prof. Dr. Taiga Brahm (Economic Education, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Prof. Dr. Cecilia Bruzelius (Comparative Social Policy and Migration, Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Prof. Dr. Caterina Gawrilow (School Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science)

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bani Gill (Urban Futures of the Global South, Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Dr. Christopher Gohl (Weltethos-Institute)

Prof. Dr. Volker Hochschild (Physical Geography with a focus on Geographic Information Systems and Geoinformatics, Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Science)

Prof. Dr. Sigrid G. Köhler (Modern German Literature, German Language and Literatures, Faculty of Humanities)

Prof. Dr. Isabel Laack (Study of Religions and Non-European History of Religions, Institute for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Humanities)

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yewon Lee (Department of Korean Studies, Asian and Oriental Studies, Faculty of Humanities)

Prof. Dr. Marion Müller (Sociology, with Focus on Gender Studies, Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Prof. Dr. Martin Nettesheim (Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law, European Law and International Law, Faculty of Law)

Prof. Dr. Boris Nieswand (Sociology, with focus on Migration and Diversity, Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Prof. Dr. Monika Rieger (Institute for Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Health Services Research, University Hospital Tübingen)

Prof. Dr. Tanja Thomas (Media Studies with a focus on Transformations in Media Cultures, Institute of Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities)

Visiting Professor: Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)

After studying Philosophy and Modern Languages in 1984 I started working with an organisation of (undocumented) migrant domestic workers in London. I conducted research on the issue for a campaign booklet and realised that this was an important sector of work for undocumented migrants across the European Union. I obtained a grant from the European Commission to explore this, and decided to do the research as a PhD project under the supervision of Dr Annie Phizacklea at the University of Warwick - and then University of Leicester. That was my segue into University life.

I worked with the ESRC funded Transnational Communities Programme, and later the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), both led by Professor Stephen Vertovec. I stayed at COMPAS at the University of Oxford for 12 years, first leading a research strand and then as Research Director. I joined the University of Bristol in 2017 as Professor of Migration Mobilities and Citizenship, and in 2018 took over the leadership of the University's Specialist Research Institute, Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB).