Dr Miranda Simon
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Email
miranda.simon@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873486
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Location
5.413, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Tuesdays 15:00-17:00
Profile
Biography
Miranda Simon is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex. She was awarded a PhD from University College London (UCL). Her research and teaching interests are international relations and comparative politics with a focuses on migration, refugee movement, immigration policy and international development. Methodologically, she specializes in computational methods, field and survey experiments.
Qualifications
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PhD Political Science/ Security University College London, (2019)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex (1/10/2021 - present)
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Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex (2/9/2019 - 1/10/2021)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Politics and Economic Policies (GV120)
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Development, N.G.Os and Foreign Aid (GV216)
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Migration, Politics and International Development (GV554)
Publications
Journal articles (9)
Christensen, J. and Simon, M., (2023). Using Aid to Control Migration. Political Studies, 003232172311622-003232172311622
Simon, M., Schwartz, C. and Hudson, D., (2022). Covid-19 Insecurities and Migration Aspirations. International Interactions. 48 (2), 309-326
Schwartz, C., Simon, M., Hudson, D. and VanHeerde Hudson, J., (2021). A Populist Paradox? How Brexit Softened Anti-Immigrant Attitudes. British Journal of Political Science. Online (3), 1-21
Ghosn, F., Chu, T., Simon, M., Braithwaite, A., Frith, M. and Jandali, J., (2021). The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return. American Political Science Review. 115 (3), 982-998
Schwartz, C., Simon, M., Hudson, D. and Johnson, SD., (2021). Law Breaking and Law Bending: How International Migrants Negotiate with State Borders. International Studies Quarterly. 65 (1), 196-196
Simon, M., (2019). Path Dependency and Adaptation: The Effects of Policy on Migration Systems. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 22 (2)
Frith, M., Simon, M., Davies, T., Braithwaite, A. and Johnson, S., (2019). Spatial interaction and security: A review and case study of the Syrian refugee crisis. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 44 (3-4), 328-341
Simon, M., Schwartz, C., Hudson, D. and Johnson, SD., (2018). A data-driven computational model on the effects of immigration policies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (34), E7914-E7923
Belur, J., Tompson, L., Thornton, A. and Simon, M., (2018). Interrater Reliability in Systematic Review Methodology. Sociological Methods and Research. 50 (2), 1-29
Grants and funding
2022
The diffusion of development: Extending RCTs with agent-based modelling to understand spillovers of development interventions
Economic and Social Research Council
2019
Testing the impact of interventions on migration decision-making
International Organisation for Migration
Contact
Academic support hours:
Tuesdays 15:00-17:00
