Vicki Squire

Professor Vicki Squire is a Faculty member at the University of Warwick, holding the position of Professor of International Politics within the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS). She also serves as Deputy Head of Department, Director of Research, and Co-Convenor of the Warwick Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration (BREM) Network. Her academic career includes postdoctoral fellowships at the Open University and the University of Birmingham, and visiting professorships at Sapienza University (Italy) and Soka University (Japan).

Her research focuses on migration governance, humanitarian interventions, and solidarity activism, with a particular emphasis on displacement in contexts such as Nigeria, South Sudan, and the Mediterranean. She has led major projects funded by AHRC and ESRC, including the Data and Displacement initiative and the DLiD grant. Notable works include Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge UP, 2020) and Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's 'Migrant Crisis' (Manchester UP, 2021).

Professor Squire has received a Leverhulme Fellowship (2015–2018) for her work on Mediterranean solidarity activism. She has supervised over eight PhD students, contributing to their research on topics ranging from Venezuelan migration to asylum policy. Her teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate modules in International Studies and Politics.

Her recent publications critically engage with data-driven humanitarianism, colonial legacies in displacement governance, and the politics of global citizenship. She has also contributed to public exhibitions, such as the Imperial War Museum's Refugees: Forced to Flee, and collaborates with global researchers through initiatives like the British Academy's Lost and Found? digital archive project.