Bio

Graham is a sociologist and social researcher who is currently undertaking his doctoral degree at the University of Sussex focussing on ethnic minority mobilisations around migration policy in the Labour Party. He is due to complete his PhD in early 2027.

Graham holds a 1st class BA in Sociology from the University of Sussex which he received in 2021, being presented with the Junior Research Associate award in his 2nd year of study in addition to the Outstanding Academic Achievement award in both the 1st and 3rd years of his undergraduate degree for the highest grade mean in his year cohort. He also holds a MSc (distinction) in Social Research Methods from the University of Sussex which he received in 2022.

His main theoretical focus centres around investigating the interrelationships between mobility justice, ethnonational identity formations, civic-centric subjectivities and processes of material and symbolic bordering, in the situated context of an emboldened hyper-nationalist renaissance that is fermenting across the globe.

He is primarily interested in analysing these structures through epistemically (re)centring the institutional locus of taxonomic power and how official categories of difference are (re)produced by the state. From a meta-theoretical perspective, he is interested in the analytical tensions and commensurabilities between decolonial theory and historical materialism, specifically in reference to how processes of social differentiation shape and discipline regimes of social motion through a sociological and historical lens.

This has led him to writing about the political horizons of civic nationalism(s) and reimagining new forms of debordered cosmopolitics and social organisation delinked from state-centric subjectivities.

Projects:

After his final undergraduate year of study, Graham worked as a research assistant on an international research project titled 'Reaching Out to Close the Border: The Transnationalisation of Anti-Immigration Movements in Europe' supervised by Dr Aleksandra Lewicki, centring on investigating transnational connections between anti-immigration political mobilisations in the

Europolitan sphere. He has also volunteered for Citizens Advice West Sussex between 2022 and 2024, holding the post of Research and Campaigns Team Lead Support. During his tenure for Citizens Advice West Sussex, he designed and conducted multiple internal mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) research projects in addition to contributing to the quarterly report for the stakeholders.

Citizens Advice West Sussex mixed methods research projects:

• Gender, Mental Health and Debt: Access and Equity (2022)

• Domestic Abuse and Resource Access: Housing, Citizenship Status and Legal Rights' (2023)

• Housing Precarity and the Threat of Eviction in the Crawley Area During the Cost of Living Crisis' (2024)

He is currently working on a new book titled ‘Far Right Civic Nationalism and Immigration Politics’ in addition to multiple media articles, focussing on the Scottish far right and strategic cosmopolitical counterpublics.