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Maria's research explores work and employment relations in migrant firms, with a particular focus on gendered and class-based experiences in the workplace. Prior to her role at the University of Southampton, Maria was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME) at the University of Birmingham, where she contributed to the Centre’s research area on migrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship. She has also worked as a Research Officer-based at the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford, where she was involved in projects such as ‘The Drivers and Dynamics of High-Skilled Migration’ and ‘The Determinants of International Migration’ (DEMIG). Maria has published her research in a wide range of academic journals and is a member of the Editorial Board for Sociological Research Online and has been a member of the editorial boards for Work, Employment & Society and Sociology. She has held visiting scholar positions at COMPAS (University of Oxford), IMES (University of Amsterdam), ISET (London Metropolitan University), and the School of Social Sciences and Law at Oxford Brookes, as well as at ERCOMER (University of Utrecht).
University of Southampton • Southampton, England
Teaching and researching in areas related to sociology, social policy, and migrant entrepreneurship.