Interests
I am interested in the global movement of persons, the legacy of EU free movement to the UK post-Brexit, wider UK Immigration law & policy and access to justice pathways available to vulnerable and minoritised communities living in the UK & EU.
CV / Biography
Fiona works on the EU Migrant Worker Project examining immigration matters in the UK post Brexit (particularly for EU citizens in the UK) and access to justice pathways for marginalized communities. Her work is part of a programme called ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ (http://ukandeu.ac.uk), which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Alongside her academic work, Fiona also works with a charity in Norfolk called GYROS (www.gyros.org.uk) supporting refugee, asylum seekers and other migrant communities.
Fiona is a Fellow and Tutor and Director of Studies at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge.
Fiona has written extensively on the topic of EU citizens in the UK and Brexit. Her work has been featured in The Independent, The Times, The Conversation and BBC News among others. She has given evidence to both the House of Lords, EU Affairs Committee, the Equality and Social Justice Committee in the Senedd, and to Parliamentary Staff in the House of Commons on the topic of (EU) citizen’s rights. Her work has been cited in reports by both the UK House of Lords and the Welsh Parliament. She also blogs on Brexit, mainly for the http://ukandeu.ac.uk/.
Fiona is also a Visiting Lecturer at ARU (Cambridge), teaching EU Law, English Legal Systems and (LLM) Research Methods in Law and an Associate Tutor at UEA, Norwich where she supports teaching in EU Law.
Fields of research
EU Law, Immigration Law, Constitutional Law, English Legal Systems, Legal Research Methods
Selected publications
Books
Low Paid EU migrant Workers: The House, The Street, the Town. (with C. Barnard and S. Fraser Butlin), 2024)
Articles
"Is the Workers Regulation 492/2011 Fit for Purpose?" European Law Review 2025
"Accessing rights and entitlements under the Withdrawal Agreement: a view from the East of England" International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities: Border Crossing (2025)
"From EU Citizenship to British citizenship via the EU Settlement Scheme: Some Socio-Legal Reflections from the east coast" SSRN Paper Number 19/2024
"The darker side of the internal market ideal: EU free movement and migrant workers living in a coastal town " Paper 32/2023
"(Facilitated) Conversations from the frontline: qualitative multilingual research with EU Migrant Workers" Paper No 19/2023
"When (EU) migration came to Great Yarmouth" (2023) Contemporary Social Science 150
"(Legal) assistance in employment matters to low-paid EU migrant workers in the East of England" (2022) Legal Studies 491
"The changing status of European Union nationals in the United Kingdom following Brexit: The lived experience of the European Union Settlement Scheme" (2022) Social & Legal Studies 365
Book Chapters
"(Facilitated) conversations from the frontline: qualitative multilingual research with EU Migrant Workers" (with Catherine Barnard) in Alysia Blackham and Sean Cooney (ed(s)), Research Methods in Labour Law A Handbook, 2024), pp. 312-330
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