Dr Miranda Simon
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Email
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Location
5.413, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Thursday 14:00-16:00
Profile
Biography
Miranda Simon is a Senior Lecturer at the 糖心Vlog. 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
糖心Vlog
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, 糖心Vlog (1/10/2021 - present)
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Lecturer, Department of Government, 糖心Vlog (2/9/2019 - 1/10/2021)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Global 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 (13)
Gerver, M., Simon, M. and Ghosn, F., . Political Studies
Simon, M., Braithwaite, A., Frith, M. and Ghosn, F., (2024). . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 51 (7), 1812-1831
Gerver, M., Simon, M., Lown, P. and Duell, D., (2024). . Ethics and Global Politics. 17 (2-3), 27-50
Simon, M., Schwartz, C. and Hudson, D., (2024). . American Journal of Political Science (AJPS)
Christensen, J. and Simon, M., (2023). . Political Studies. 72 (3), 883-902
Simon, M., Schwartz, C. and Hudson, D., (2022). . International Interactions. 48 (2), 309-326
Schwartz, C., Simon, M., Hudson, D. and VanHeerde Hudson, J., (2021). . British Journal of Political Science. Online (3), 1-21
Ghosn, F., Chu, T., Simon, M., Braithwaite, A., Frith, M. and Jandali, J., (2021). . American Political Science Review. 115 (3), 982-998
Schwartz, C., Simon, M., Hudson, D. and Johnson, SD., (2021). . International Studies Quarterly. 65 (1), 196-196
Simon, M., (2019). . Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 22 (2)
Frith, M., Simon, M., Davies, T., Braithwaite, A. and Johnson, S., (2019). . Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 44 (3-4), 328-341
Simon, M., Schwartz, C., Hudson, D. and Johnson, SD., (2018). . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (34), E7914-E7923
Belur, J., Tompson, L., Thornton, A. and Simon, M., (2018). . Sociological Methods and Research. 50 (2), 1-29
Grants and funding
2025
The spillovers of migration interventions - Impact leave
糖心Vlog (QR Impact Fund)
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:
Thursday 14:00-16:00
