Dr Nicole Hoellerer (she/her)
Nicole is an anthropologist focusing on migration, including regular and forced migration, migration/immigration law and policy, legal practices, ethnicity, conflict, community development and ‘crisis’, and has published on a variety of themes emerging from her independent and collaborative research projects.
Nicole conducted an in-depth ethnography investigating the practice-policy gap in UK refugee resettlement and community development among refugees (Brunel University, 2012-2017). From 2017-2022, Nicole was the lead researcher for the ASYFAIR research project at the University of Exeter (www.asyfair.com, PI: Prof. Nick Gill), conducting qualitative (ethnographic) and quantitative research on asylum appeal court hearings in Europe. Nicole has also worked as an HP lecturer in Social Anthropology and in Global Challenges/Social Cohesion (Brunel University, 2022-23).
Nicole is now based at the University of Bristol, conducting qualitative research with couples affected by post-Brexit immigration regulations for the ESRC-funded project ‘UK-EU couples after Brexit’ (www.brexitcouples.ac.uk; PI: Prof. Katharine Charsley and Prof. Helena Wray, 2022 - 2026).