I’m a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Sociology department at the University of Essex. I completed my PhD in the department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and spent a year at the European University Institute as a Max Weber Fellow. My PhD investigates how the function of citizenship is changing in response to migration, both for immigrants and for the majority population. Most recently, I have contributed new evidence on public attitudes on territorial birthright citizenship reform for Italy. In my new Leverhulme funded project I examine if and why higher education makes societies more positive about immigrants. As part of this research, I have also developed new approaches to measuring immigration attitudes, including introducing the concept of ambivalence. Finally, I’m Co-PI of a La Caixa grant looking at drivers of occupational devaluation.

Research interests

• Migration and attitudes towards immigrants
• citizenship and national identity
• labour market inequalities
• surveys and survey experiments

Find pre-registrations for experiments on OSF; find data and code for published work on Harvard Dataverse