Ali Ahmadi is a Researcher and PhD candidate specialising on refugee education, integration, and policy. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Refugee Studies at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), where his research explores the access to and success of forcibly displaced students (FDSs) in higher education in England, with a particular focus on the structural and institutional barriers they face. His broader research interests include refugee housing, social inclusion, and reintegration.
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Alongside his doctoral work, Ali is a Research Assistant at the University of Cambridge, where he studies how refugees and asylum seekers integrate into host communities and the way they navigate accessing their rights and entitlements. He has also worked as a Community Researcher at ARU contributing to a project on migrants and refugees’ access to healthcare and housing services.
Ali holds an MBA from Mahatma Gandhi University and an MSc in Global Development from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and has worked closely with refugee-led and refugee-support organisations, including the Refugee Council (UK), World Jewish Relief, and City of Sanctuary (CoS) UK.