Dr Sam Scott
- Research Fellow
- Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice
- Tel: +44 (0)117 9546774
- Email: Sam.Scott@bristol.ac.uk
Personal profile
Dr Scott has been researching international migration and social exclusion since the late 1990s. His first major project (1999-2003) focused on intra-European skill mobility and was based at the Universities of Sheffield and Sorbonne. Dr Scott published extensively from this: on the social and community morphology of immigration, on transnational networks, and on migrant assimilation. Over 2003-04 he carried out consultancy work – in the university and private sectors – on poverty and regeneration. Based in Sheffield, Lisbon and Nottingham, this work eventually led to a job at the University of Sheffield. Here Dr Scott began research on low-paid migrant workers and, on accepting a post at the University of Liverpool in 2007, continued this via funding from the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, Nuffield Foundation, and Migration Advisory Committee. Currently, Dr Scott is coordinating a £230,000 Joseph Rowntree Foundation project on ‘Forced Labour in the UK' (2010-2011).
Teaching interests
International migration; Minority communities; Labour market regulation/deregulation; UK food industry; Fieldwork; interviews and ethnography
Research interests
Immigration; Emigration; Low-paid work; Forced labour; Skill mobility; Food industry; Workplace regulation/deregulation; Migrant labour markets.