Karen Latricia HOUGH

Dr Karen Latricia Hough obtained her doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She has received many important awards for her research including the Vice Chancellorships’ Award and the Bagby Award at the University of Oxford. She has written evidence for the Home Affairs Commission and published a variety of articles and books for Routledge, Springer, Oxford University Press, Franco Angeli, Emerald, and Open Democracy. She has also taught various courses in Anthropology and Migration Studies at the University of Oxford, University of Oxford Brookes and the University of Salento.

Karen is currently working on several research projects in the area of security at the EURO-ARAB Foundation, including the prestigious Horizon Europe project Vanguard, which focuses on human trafficking. She is also conducting research in the area of radicalisation, focusing on the link between immigration and asylum policies and Far-Right extremist ideologies.