Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips

Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Senior Research Fellow, IRiS

Contact details

Email
l.lessard-phillips@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Social Policy and Society
Muirhead Tower
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Laurence Lessard-Phillips is a Senior Research Fellow who joined the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) in May 2016. Her main research interests lie in the perceptions, measurement, and dimensionality of immigrant adaptation; ethnic inequalities in education and the labour market; the transnational behaviour across immigrant generations; and social inequalities and social mobility. She is currently leading two ESRC research projects, one looking into perceptions and dimensionality of immigrant adaptation in academia, policy, and public opinion (Future Research Leaders 2013-2016) and the other on pathways to socio-economic and civic-political inclusion of ethnic minorities and the influence of family capital (SDAI Phase 3 2016-2017). She previously worked at the University of Manchester (2010-2016) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (2009-2010). She obtained her doctorate in Sociology from Nuffield College (Oxford); her thesis explored ethnic inequalities in education for the second generation in Canada and Britain.

Qualifications

  • DPhil (Nuffield College, Oxon)
  • MSc (Nuffield College, Oxon)
  • BA (McGill University)

Research

  • Perceptions, measurement, and dimensionality of immigrant adaptation;
  • Adaptation outcomes in national and comparative perspectives;
  • Ethnic inequalities in education and the labour market;
  • Use pf agent-based models to investigate issues linked to immigration and superdiversity;
  • Transnational behaviour across immigrant generations;
  • Social inequalities and social mobility

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Phillimore, J, Fu, L, Jones, L, Lessard-Phillips, L & Tatem, B 2025, '', Frontiers in public health, vol. 13, 1454548.

Fajth, V & Lessard-phillips, L 2022, '', International Migration Review, pp. 1-30.

Fu, L, Lindenmeyer, A, Phillimore, J & Lessard-Phillips, L 2022, '', Public Health, vol. 203, pp. 36-42.

Edmonds, B, Hales, D & Lessard-Phillips, L 2020, '', Social Science Computer Review, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 359-364.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Sobolewska, M & Lessard-Phillips, L 2024, . in W Allen & C Vargas-Silva (eds), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration. 2nd edn, Elgar Handbooks in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Chapter

Lessard-Phillips, L & Fajth, V 2022, . in F Meissner, N Sigona & S Vertovec (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity. Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press, pp. 209鈥�224.

Lessard-Phillips, L & Nagai, N 2021, . in M Giugni & M Grasso (eds), Handbook of Citizenship and Migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 37鈥�51.

Anthology

Lessard-Phillips, L, Papoutsi, A, Sigona, N & Ziss, P (eds) 2023, . Oxford Publishing Services, Oxford.

Commissioned report

Jones, L, Phillimore, J, Fu, L, Hourani, J, Lessard-Phillips, L & Tatem, B 2022, . Doctors of the World UK, London. <>

Other contribution

Besana, M, Lessard-Phillips, L, Fu, L, Lindenmeyer, A & Phillimore, J 2021, . London School of Economics and Political Science. <>

Other report

Lessard-Phillips, L, Lindenmeyer, A, Phillimore, J, Fu, L & Jones, L 2022, . Nuffield Foundation. <>

Lessard-Phillips, L, Fu, L, Lindenmeyer, A, Phillimore, J & Dayoub, R 2021, . Doctors of the World UK, London. <>

Lessard-Phillips, L, Fajth, V & Fern谩ndez-Reino, M 2020, . Migration Observatory Briefing. <>

Lessard-Phillips, L, Roberts, G & Phillimore, J 2020, . IRiS Working Paper, no. 40.

Special issue

Loughran, T, Fieldhouse, E, Lessard-Phillips, L & Bentley, L 2020, '', Social Science Computer Review, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 422-442.