Global influence and our Research Associates
The MiSoC team includes Co-Investigators from leading universities around the world – Bologna, Sydney, Bristol and Warwick – as well as an established group of prestigious Research Associates who publish research as part of the MiSoC programme and collaborate with the core team on projects. Many of our academics and researchers are invited members of influential, national and international organisations, and together, with our established network of Research Associates, MiSoC is contributing to a significant body of research around the world.
Our Advisory Groups
We have dedicated networks of key advisors with specialist expertise in each of our five Research Areas. They provide a sounding board for our research questions and topics and provide valuable insights into current demand for findings and evidence from our research. They help us identify our most policy-relevant findings and support our efforts in communicating our research.
Our specialist networks
The Essex Centre for Migration Studies
MiSoC’s stratification and migration researchers are members of the Essex Centre for Migration Studies (MiSoC’s Professor Renee Luthra is founding Director), an interdisciplinary centre where addressing questions on local immigrant integration and the intergenerational transmission of outcomes of immigrants. Since 2018, the Centre has served as a focal point for postgraduate researchers in migration studies and as a link between the University and the local and regional community through involvement with local NGOs and policymakers serving immigrant, refugee and ethnic minority communities.
Network on Preferences and Expectations
MiSoC’s Professor Adeline Delavande coordinates a research network on preference and expectation formation, which aims to bring together researchers in different fields and disciplines but working on similar areas, and encourage interaction. A focus is a series of linked workshops and special sessions at relevant conferences. MiSoC hosts the biannual International Workshop on Preferences and Expectations, the most recent being in Milan in 2023.
European Social Science Genetics Network
MiSoC is a key partner in this ,network, launched in May 2022 by MiSoC’s Professor Nicola Barban at an inaugural Conference in Bologna, co-funded by the European Research Council. MiSoC co-hosted two previous successful conferences in Bologna, with prestigious keynote speakers, including Dr Adam Rutherford and Professor Kathryn Paige Harden, attracting delegates from across the world to discuss new cutting-edge research using genetic, social and economic data to understand complex inequalities in life chances.
The European Social Science Genetics Network, coordinated by MiSoC’s Professor Nicola Barban, involves academic experts from across Europe looking at improving our understanding of how genetic endowments and childhood circumstances shape life choices and health and socio-economic outcomes across the life-course of individuals. The network fosters the discussion of how public policy and private interventions can help each child achieve their potential and level the playing field. MiSoC is co-hosting the third European Social Science Genetics Network Conference, which takes place in May 2024 in Rotterdam.