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Catherine Barnard is Professor in European Union Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge and a fellow with UK in a Changing Europe. Her research focuses on the intersection of EU law, employment rights, and migration policy, particularly examining marginalized migrant communities in the East of England.
Her primary research interests encompass European Union Law, Employment Law, Immigration Law, and Worker Protection, with specific focus on Brexit's impact on migrant rights, EU Settlement Scheme implementation, seasonal worker programs, and the enforcement of labor rights by vulnerable populations. She investigates how precarious working conditions in agriculture and food processing ('picking, packing, and plucking') intersect with health inequalities and integration challenges.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals consistent emphasis on Brexit-related legal frameworks, migrant worker protections, and constitutional implications of UK-EU separation. Key thematic clusters include EU Settlement Scheme challenges (appearing in 5 of 15 works), labor rights in post-Brexit Britain, and the socio-legal dynamics of migration policy implementation in regional contexts like Great Yarmouth.
Professor Barnard's UK in a Changing Europe fellowship project examines immigration/worker protection boundaries for marginalized communities in the East of England, analyzing impacts of labor migration on local communities, post-Brexit seasonal worker schemes (including Ukrainian and Kazakh workers), and COVID-19's intensification of health inequalities among precarious workers. Her research methodology combines pragmatic law analysis with field evidence gathering across Eastern England.
