I am an ESRC funded 1st year PhD student in the Department of Sociology here at the University of Warwick.  My research interests are in the area of political sociology.  Specifically: human rights, asylum, immigration, and citizenship. 

I studied for my undergraduate degree, a BA in Geography, at the University of Birmingham and followed this with an MA in European Studies at the European Research Institute, again at the University of Birmingham.  It was during my MA that my interest in immigration, asylum and citizenship began.  Following this I worked for a short time at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University, and then at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), University of Birmingham, as a Research Associate for two years.  In 2008 I moved to the University of Warwick to begin an ESRC funded 1+3 in Sociology.

My doctoral research is looking at the politics of asylum policy in the UK.  My work is currently looking at how King and Smith's (2005) 'racial institutional orders' framework (drawing on historical institutionalism in political science) might usefully be employed to better understand UK asylum policy. 

My supervisors are:

• Bob Carter 
• Gurminder Bhambra

For further information on my research, teaching and other activities, please click on the left hand tabs.

Lucy Mayblin

L dot Mayblin at warwick dot ac dot uk