Jacqueline Broadhead
About
Jacqueline Broadhead is Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity initiative, the knowledge exchange arm of COMPAS, where she manages a broad portfolio of knowledge exchange and research projects that aim to extend and deepen COMPAS's international contribution to the reciprocal sharing of expertise and ideas among academics, policymakers, professionals, civil society, lawyers, foundations, school students and others in the field. Jacqueline's work focuses on local government and migration, integration and inclusion and how place-based narratives can facilitate the development of inclusive communities.
In 2024, Jacqueline was appointed as the university’s academic champion for policy engagement and chair of the Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) steering group, focussed on strengthening the University’s support for more effective engagement between policy makers and researchers.
Expertise
- Migrant integration and inclusion
- Local government and migration
- Access to welfare and public services for destitute migrants (in particular those subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds condition in the UK)
- Refugee resettlement in the UK
- Community sponsorship of migrants in the UK (including Homes for Ukraine)
- Social Cohesion
- Asylum accommodation in the UK
Selected publications
Media experience
Jacqueline Broadhead regularly appears in the media discussing questions of migration governance and integration. Most recently, Jacqueline appeared in the media discussing asylum accommodation on LBC, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC News and BBC Breakfast. Her work has featured in the UK press, including The Guardian, The Times, the Financial Times and the Daily Express. Jacqueline also co-hosts the Migration Oxford Podcast.
Recent media work
Languages
English, French and Italian