Notes about Authors
Anne Boer
M.Sc. Anne Boer wrote her master thesis about Polish labour migrants in The Netherlands. In her thesis, she focuses on the personal life goals that Polish migrants want to achieve in their lives. In 2008, she received her Bachelor degree in Sociology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. In 2010 she graduated for her Master Globalisation, Migration and Development at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. In 2009, she works at MOVISIE, The Netherlands Centre for social development in Utrecht. Here she investigates the social effect of the arrival of Polish migrants in rural areas in The Netherlands. Currently she is looking for a Phd position to do further research on this or a related theme.
Kathy Burrell
Kathy Burrell is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History. Her research interests are in post-war and contemporary migration to Britain, concentrating on a range of different aspects: material culture and consumption; mobility and migrant journeys; transnationalism; memory; narratives; and gender. She is currently researching Polish migration to the Midlands from the 1950s to date, focusing on changing experiences of mobility and journey time-spaces; material culture and consumption, including migrants’ relationships with shops selling Polish products; and migrants’ life-histories and memories of socialist Poland – especially the importance of ‘the west’ in these narratives. She is also working on the experiences of travelling for migration more generally.
Dawn Judd
Dawn Judd has extensive experience of social work practice, social care and social work education. She is also a trained nurse and teacher. At the University of Central Lancashire she has a teaching brief comparative social welfare in Europe. She has presented papers and published nationally and internationally. She is currently involved in research into the needs of Polish post-accession migrants and their role within the UK economy. She is co-editing a book with colleagues from the University of Lodz which aims to give UK policy makers, employers and co-workers an understanding of social welfare provision in Poland and provide a context in Poland of the experiences of Polish migrants and their families living and working in the UK (to be published in 2010).
Michał Karczemski
Michał Karczemski in 2007 received his bachelor degree in Political Geography from the University of Lodz. Since 2008 he had studied at Radboud University of Nijmegen, where in 2010 he graduated in Social Geography. He wrote his master thesis about the post-accession migration to The Netherlands. He focused in his research in formal and informal networks which facilitate migration processes in the European Union. In 2010 together with MOVISIE he published a report about Polish migrant on the rural areas of The Netherland. Since May 2010 he works at Oost Europa Centrum in Tilburg, where he deals with a migration problematic from Central Europe to The Netherlands.
Ben Sellers
Ben Sellers is a trade union organiser, working for the Northern Region TUC. Previous to his time in the trade union movement, He researched the cultural policy of the left and the intellectual roots of the New Times project. Since 2007, however, he has been working on the TUC’s Vulnerable Workers Project. As part of that role, he tries to make migrant workers aware of their employment rights and the opportunity to get involved in campaigning through the trade unions. He works on a number of mini projects which aim to engage the trade unions with community. organising initiatives throughout the North East and Cumbria. I also work on a LSC project aimed at developing English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision at work, tapping into the skills that migrant workers and refugees have, for the benefit of the regions economy.
Bogusia Temple
Bogusia Temple is Professor of Health and Social Care Research in the School of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England. She is interested in research methodology, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research, particularly in relation to people who speak a language other than that of the researcher. This has included a wide range of people from minority ethnic communities in England but her main interest is in research with Polish people, which she has been doing since the 1980s. She has collected oral histories with Polish people from around the world, written exten Notes sively about her research and presented nationally and internationally. Her most recent research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and looked at language and identity. She has published widely in this area and her articles in this field include in the journals Sociology, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Qualitative Research, Migrations & Identities and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
Anne White
She is Senior Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, where she has been working since 1987. She graduated from Wadham College, Oxford; taught English at Poznań University, Poland, in 1983–1984; and defended her PhD at the London School of Economics in 1989. Her main research interest is social change in post-communist Europe, with particular focus on migration, livelihood strategies, identities, gender and civil society. She has published four research monographs: Destalinization and the House of Culture: Declining State Control over Leisure in the USSR, Poland and Hungary, 1953–1989 (London: Routledge, 1990); Democratization in Russia under Gorbachev: the Birth of a Voluntary Sector (London: Macmillan, 1999); Small-Town Russia: Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities (London: Routledge-Curzon, 2004) and Polish Families and Migration since EU Accession (Bristol: Policy Press, 2010). She also teaches English to parents at the Polish Saturday school in Bath and maintains the Polish Migration Website http://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/polish-migration/.
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