Rachel Rosen

Professor Rachel Rosen is a Professor of Sociology at the Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), University College London. Her work focuses on marginalized children and families, particularly those with precarious immigration status, exploring intersections of neoliberal welfare systems and border regimes. She holds dual email addresses (r.rosen@ucl.ac.uk & r.rosen@ioe.ac.uk) and has been affiliated with UCL since 2013. Her research integrates participatory methodologies with materialist feminist frameworks to address social inequalities and injustices impacting children.

Education: PhD in Sociology from UCL Institute of Education (2014); MA in Sociology from University of East London (2010). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has completed postgraduate training in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Research Interests:

• Sociology of Childhood and Children’s Rights
• Migration and Child Migrant Experiences
• Social Reproduction Theory
• Ethnographic and Participatory Research Methods
• Critical Approaches to Social Policy

Notable Projects: The We Are Movers collaborative arts project addresses migrant stereotypes through visual storytelling. She co-directs the Critical Childhood Studies Centre, emphasizing interdisciplinary scholarship. Her current research with Sarah Crafter examines separated child migrants’ experiences of care within UK immigration-welfare systems.

Awards: None explicitly listed, but her work has policy impact through collaborations with migrant rights organizations like Refuge in a Moving World and local community groups.

Advising & Grants: Supervises doctoral students in Sociology of Childhood and contributes to the MA program. Her community-based participatory projects reflect commitment to social justice and knowledge co-production.

Labs/Teams: Active in the Social Research Institute’s interdisciplinary networks and editorial boards of Childhood, Children's Geographies, and Sociedad e Infancias.