Bio

Alicia Poole is a third-year Ph.D. student at McGill University. Before her doctoral studies, she completed a Master’s degree in Sociology at McGill University and a Bachelor’s of Arts with a double major in Sociology (hons.) and Communications Studies at Memorial University. Her research interests are conflict migration, migration decision-making, legal status, and inequalities in conflict migration. Research from her MA thesis project has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and presented at academic and non-academic conferences including annual meetings of the American Sociological Association and Metropolis Canada. Results of this research were awarded a graduate student essay prize by the McGill Refugee Research Group and an Outstanding Conference Paper Award from the MUNK Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference. She was the recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s Award and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Doctoral Scholarship.

Project

I will use my time at the Faberllull residence to focus on my doctoral dissertation proposal, which will serve as the roadmap for my doctoral research project. This is a key piece in my doctoral training – it outlines what I plan to do and how I plan to do it. I will attend the residence with a full working draft and use the time to solicit feedback on my project and, ideally, incorporate insights I learn from other attendees in the final version.