Cambridge
0845 196 2129
adriana.sandu@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• PhD in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, New York, USA (2006)
• MA in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, New York, USA (1999)
• BA Social Work, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Bucharest, Romania (1994)

• International Sociological Association (2005)
• RC 19 Research Council on Poverty and Social Exclusion (2005)
• Social Policy Association (2007)

Courses

• MSc in International Welfare; Globalisation, Social Policy and Social Welfare, module leader; Child Poverty in Comparative Perspective (three sessions)
• Ethnographic Research and Life Stories - one session; Doctoral Training Programme
• Third supervisor of 3 PhD students
• Supervisor of 2 MA in Social Work students
• Supervisor of 2 BA in Social Work students

Outline of career

Adriana was a PhD researcher at the Centre for Policy Research at Syracuse University in New York from 1999 to 2006. Her doctoral thesis was entitled 'Poverty, Institutions and Child Health in Post-Communist Rural Romania: A View from below' where she used a constructivist approach to understand health care decision-making processes of disadvantaged families living in rural Romania. Upon completion of her PhD she worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University where she stayed until 2010. Areas of interest included gender, citizenship, children and families, social exclusion, social policy research evaluation. While at Loughborough, Adriana also taught 'Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods' as part of the Career Development Programme.

Since May 2011, Adriana is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Family and Community Studies department at Anglia Ruskin University. She is involved in several research bids in the Social Inclusion core research team such as trying to address social mobility and young people's participation in rural areas with Stephen Moore; a EU Framework 7 bid together with Dr. Claudia Schneider, exploring issues of transnationalism, citizenship and belonging in old and new migrant communities from Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden and the UK.

Adriana has obtained two Research Enhancement Funds from the Faculty to organise an Invited Speakers Social Inclusion Seminar Series and the second International Workshop in Social Inclusion taking place in October 21 2011. Both activities aim to increase scholarship, publications and the research potential in the department.

Research Interest

Adriana's research continues to focus on issues of diversity, migration, citizenship, gender and identity, drawing on intersectionality theory. Her methodological expertise includes mixed methods, and qualitative inquiry, particularly ethnographic approaches, such as biographies, narrative ethnography (including visual narratives) to address issues of representation, participation and voice of excluded and vulnerable groups.

Using these approaches Adriana is currently working three articles: 'Transnational home-making practices and community cohesion', 'The use of visual methodologies in social work and social policy research' and together with Claudia Schneider on 'Structure and agency in the context of social work and immigration'.

Selected Publications

Sandu A (in preparation), Transnational Home-Making Practices: Integration, Citizenship and Community Cohesion Reconsidered to be submitted on as part of the Special Edition on Transnationalism and Education (agreed), International Journal of European Studies, March 2013

Schneider C, Sandu A, in preparation; 'International social work engagement with immigration policy: theoretical and practical reflections on the structure-agency link and political opportunity structures' for the European Journal of Social work

Sandu, A., 'The use of visual methodologies in social work and social policy research ' (in preparation)

Sandu A., ?Participation, Representation and Voice in the fight against gender violence: The case of the women's movement in Spain? (submitted to the International Journal of Womens Studies, March 2012)

Nyhagen Predelli L, Halsaa B, with Thun C and Sandu A (forthcoming 2012)
Strategic Sisterhood: A Comparative Study of Contemporary European women's movements, Palgrave

Sandu A., (2010) Rules from above, Views from below: Accessing and Using child health services in post-communist rural Romania, in Poverty, Urbanity and Social Policy, Nova Science Publishers Inc

Hartfree, Y., Whitfield, G., Waring, A., Sandu, A. and Hill, K. (2010) Tenants' and advisers' early experiences of the Local Housing Allowance national rollout. Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Research Report No. 688. Norwich: HMSO.

France A, Munro E, Waring A., with Manful E, Sandu, A, Meredith J, Padley M, Phung V, Beckhelling J, Soper J. (2010) The Evaluation of Arrangements for Effective Operation of the New Local Safeguarding Children Boards in England - Final Report. Research Report DFE-RR027

Sandu, A., Predelli L., Haalsa, B., (2008) Women's Movements: Constructions of sisterhood, dispute and resonance. The case of Spain, Centre for Research in Social Policy, working paper 585, 2008

France A., Meredith J., Sandu A. (2007) Youth culture and citizenship in multicultural Britain, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, December 2007, pp. 307-320