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Staff Profile

Dr Chris Moreh

Lecturer in Sociology

Background

I am a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. Before joining Newcastle University in November 2021, I had been a lecturer/senior lecturer in sociology at York St. John University and Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton. I have a PhD is social sciences from Northumbria University, an MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University, and an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest).

Research

My research interests and publications are primarily in the areas of ethnic and migration studies, nationalism, and political discourse. My approach to research is comparative, interdisciplinary and multimethodological. In my work I have combined participant observation, in-depth qualitative interviewing, archival research, critical discourse analysis, survey methods and statistical modelling. I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in London, UK (2013), Granada, Spain (2011), Alcalá de Henares, Spain (2008–2009) and Budapest, Hungary (2006–2008). In my quantitative work I use both primary data collected via small and mid-size online surveys and secondary data from high-quality national and cross-national studies (ESS, EVS, Understanding Society).

For an op-to-date list of my publications visit: chrismoreh.com/publication

Current research

I am currently involved in collaborative research projects exploring:

  • Transnational healthcare and wellbeing among Polish migrants in the UK, with Professor Athina Vlachantoni (Southampton), Professor Derek McGhee (Stirling) and Dr Giuseppe Troccoli (Southampton).
  • The Motivations and Outcomes of Study Abroad among UK undergraduates studying East Asian Languages, with Dr. Chisato Danjo, Dr Yeji Han, Dr Joan Walton (York St John University), and Dr Linda Walz (Leeds Trinity).

Some of my previous research projects:

2018–2019: ‘EU citizens in a changing Britain’. ESRC CPC, University of Southampton (with McGhee)

2015–2017: ‘EU migrants’ engagement in and attitudes towards Britain’s renegotiation of its EU membership conditions and the EU Referendum’. ESRC CPC, University of Southampton (with Vlachantoni and McGhee)

2011–2015: ‘Multiple dimensions of Central Eastern European migration to the United Kingdom: mobilities and citizenships’. PhD research, Northumbria University, UK.

2011: ‘Gentrification and urban heritage in Albayzín, Granada, Spain’. MA research, Central European University, Hungary

2009: ‘A Romanian immigrant community in Alcalá de Henares, Spain’. MA research, ELTE University of Budapest.

2008: ‘Foreign Hungarian scholarship students in Hungary’. Contract research for Balassi Institute (MTAKI).

2007: ‘Romanian Roma/Gypsies in Hungary’. Contract research for the Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research (EÖKIK).

Invited presentations

2019: ‘From post-socialist to post-accession pioneering: thirty years of change in the Romanian international migration system’, at the workshop on Migration in the Balkan region, before and after the EU, organised by The Kosovo Institute for Economic Development-Ekonomiks, 10–12 October, Tirana, Albania.

2017: ‘Between “values” and “rights”: EU migrants negotiating citizenship and belonging in the context of Brexit’. Workshop on ‘Brexit and the Pandora’s Box of EU Citizenship’, University of Copenhagen, 11–12 December.

2017: ‘A return to “settlement”? Estimating the effect of Brexit on the future migration plans of EU nationals living in the UK’. Workshop on ‘Exploring intra EU mobilities at times of Crisis’, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, 20 June.

2017: ‘The Romanian British experience: assessing open borders and its failures’. Workshop on Romanian migration, University College London, 28 April.

2017: ‘The characteristics of Hungarian migration to the United Kingdom from the perspectives of Hungarian emigration and UK immigration’ (in Hungarian), Hungarian National Institute of Criminology, Budapest, 26 April.

2016: ‘Brexit: EU nationals in the UK after the referendum’, Public roundtable, Kingston University London, Kingston upon Thames, 13 December.

2016: ‘Attitudes and responses of Polish citizens living in the UK to the EU referendum’, Public Roundtable ‘Still Home Abroad? Polish Migration to Scotland after Brexit’, Aberdeen Science Centre, 9 November.

2016: ‘The Hungarian Far Right and its Eurasian prospects’. Roundtable discussion at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, UCL, 24 February.

Editorial Board Memberships

Sociology (2019–2023)

Central and Eastern European Migration Review (Since 2018­)

Teaching

My current teaching focuses primarily on research methods, both qualitative and quantitative.

Undergraduate:


Postgraduate research:

As part of a secondment as a Researcher Education and Development Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / School X, starting the academic year 2022/23 I will be leading the intermediate pathway of the research methods module:

Publications