New member appointments to the MAC
Professor Dina Kiwan and Professor Sergi Pardos-Prado have been appointed as members of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) for 3 years from 1 May 2021.
From:
10 May 2021
The Chair of the MAC, Professor Brian Bell said:
I’m delighted to welcome Dina and Sergi to the MAC. I look forward to working with them, knowing the wealth of experience and talent they bring.
Dina Kiwan
A Professor of Comparative Education at the University of Birmingham, Professor Kiwan has an interdisciplinary background in psychology, sociology and education. Her broad research programme focuses on citizenship, inclusion and is interdisciplinary and comparative in scope. Her interests centre around sociological and politico-philosophical examinations of inclusive citizenship through the lens of education policy, naturalisation policy and migration policy, in particular in the context of pluralist / multicultural societies, and also societies in conflict.
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