Biography

Imogen Bayley earned her PhD (Comparative History), magna cum laude, at the Central European University. Her thesis explored the interaction between migration policy and the migration strategies of Displaced Persons (DPs) in the immediate postwar period. A book based on her doctoral research, presenting the multi-layered historical processes that have impacted practices of migration and its political containment, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.

Since completing her doctorate, Imogen has worked as a freelance editor and copywriter with international organizations and renowned think tanks such as the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). She is a co-founder of the Centre for Policy Writing (CEPOW), a training consultancy for policy communication. She has also worked as a Teaching Assistant at the School of Transnational Governance (STG) at the EUI for the past year.

Imogen is a practice-oriented academic in the field of migration studies. During the course of the Max Weber Fellowship, Imogen’s project aims to make a theoretical and empirical contribution to both the policy entrepreneurship and Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) literatures. She plans to investigate how policy entrepreneurs use historical narratives as a part of their policy entrepreneurship strategies in the field of migration policy. Her research thus seeks to break down traditional boundaries between academic disciplines by fruitfully connecting the disciplines of history, policy studies, and migration studies.

Mentor

• Diane Lesley Stone

Mentor

• Kristin Fabbe