Andrew Thompson

Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Prifysgol De Cymru

andrew.thompson@southwales.ac.uk 014434 82853

Mae'r cynnwys hwn ar gael yn Saesneg yn unig.

I am Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. I studied sociology as both an undergraduate and postgraduate student, and was awarded my PhD from Bangor University. I have written widely on a range of issues in the broad field of political sociology, but most especially on nationalism. I am currently writing on what is often referred to as ‘temporary migration’, following a project which studied the experiences of individuals who had moved, over the last decade, from Poland to work in Wales.

Andrew Thompson Bio

Migrants, Minorities and Engagement in Local Civil Society

Overview This project combined quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to examine the participation of European migrants from the A8 countries in local civil society. Fieldwork took place in three localities across Wales; one urban, one rural and one semi-rural. The project employed a mixed-methods approach. The research was conducted in two stages. The team will conduct 80 hour long…

Research Team: Andrew Thompson (Prifysgol De Cymru), Rhys Dafydd Jones (Prifysgol Aberystwyth), Stephen Drinkwater (Prifysgol Roehampton LLundain), Taulant Guma (Edinburgh Napier University)

Seminar

Migrant Workers in Wales

3 Gorffennaf 2013 | Caerdydd

Part of the Unequal Wales Seminar Series An Unequal Wales Seminar delivered by Dr Stephen Drinkwater and Dr Andrew Thompson. All parts of the UK have seen increasing levels of labour migration over the past decade, especially from Central and Eastern Europe in the aftermath of EU enlargement in 2004. The presentation began by using a range of quantitative data…

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Migration and Mobility in Wales

14 Medi 2011 | Pontypridd

Course Leaders: Dr Robin Mann and Graham Day This event was a one-day workshop from the WISERD thematic group on Language, Citizenship and Identity. Patterns of mobility and migration have major implications for the three thematic areas of language, citizenship, and identity. These include movements between different places, across individual life courses, and the daily movements involved in…

Seminar

Bangor School of Social Sciences Seminar Series 2010/2011: Migratory Drift: Why Temporary Migrants Stay

27 Hydref 2010 | Bangor

The School of Social Sciences at Bangor University, along with WISERD, hosted a range of seminars during the 2010/2011 academic year. Speaker: Dr Andrew Thompson, Head of Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan