Aneta Piekut is a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield. She specialises in studying international migration and inter-ethnic relations, including integration, spatial segregation, and attitudes towards ethnic minorities. She published widely in leading academic journals on issues of international migration, ethnicity and segregation (e.g. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, European Sociological Review, Sociology, Social Science Research, Social & Cultural Geography, Journal of Economic and Social Geography (TESG)), and in 2017 she won the prestigious SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence awarded by the British Sociological Association’s (BSA) for a paper published in Sociology journal.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/people/academic/aneta-piekut 

Recent migration-related papers:

Piekut A. (2019). Survey nonresponse in attitudes towards immigration in Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1661773 

Piekut A., Pryce G., van Gent W. (2019). Segregation in the Twenty First Century: Processes, Complexities and Future Directions. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie (TESG), 110(3), 225-234.

Dean N., Dong G., Piekut A., Pryce G. (2019). Frontiers in residential segregation: understanding neighbourhood boundaries and their impacts. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie (TESG), 110(3), 271-288.

Piekut A., Valentine G. (2017). Spaces of encounter and attitudes towards difference: A comparative study of two European cities. Social Science Research, 62, 175-188.

Current projects:

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LAFT “Life at the Frontier: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility and Integration of Migrants” (2020-2023), Co-Director. PI prof. Gwilym Pryce, University of Sheffield. Project in partnership with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) and Umeå University (Sweden).

Organising committee of the following migration conferences:

2019: ‘Transforming Mobility and Immobility: Brexit and Beyond’, IMISCOE Spring Conference, in collaboration with the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, 28-29 March 2019, Sheffield, UK: http://migrationresearch.group.shef.ac.uk/imiscoe-spring-conference-transforming-mobility-and-immobility-brexit-and-beyond/.

2015: ‘Migrants and the City: New Dynamics in Urban Settings’, 12-13 October 2015, Sheffield, UK: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/research/2.15900/1.460025.