Category Archives: Findings

Our new article on stay-return motivations among the UK-based Polish migrant essential workers is now out in Mobilities – a major academic journal examining the movements of people, objects, capital and information. The article looks at what encourages migrant Poles to stay in the UK, return to Poland and/or migrate elsewhere and how the combinationContinue reading “New article on stay-return motivations, Brexit & Covid-19”

Our new article presenting an innovative method of Facebook-ad sampling that we employed to recruit Polish essential workers is now out. The piece reviews our survey performance over a 4-week period in spring 2021 and how our ad campaign’s reach, impressions and survey clicks (conversions) changed over time. It also analyses whether we recruited different respondents at different stages of samplingContinue reading “New methods article now out”

Our talk on stay-return motivations among migrant essential workers is on YouTube! The talk was delivered on 15 May 2024 as part of the joint seminar by the Center for Advanced Studies of Population and Religion (Cracow University of Economics, Poland) and the Jagiellonian Center for Migration Studies (Jagiellonian University, Poland) organised by Dr MichałContinue reading “Watch our talk on stay-return motivations among migrant essential workers”

Our new article on the impacts of Covid-19 on Polish essential workers in the UK is now out in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies – a major academic journal in the field of migration. The article presents key findings from our study and discusses examples of the health, social, economic, and cultural impactsContinue reading “New article on Covid impacts now out”

Publication alert! Our new mini-article is now out in Discover Society, an online platform publishing academically informed short pieces for a general audience. In the article, we explore how the combined (institutional, political, social) hostilities of Brexit and the pandemic have impacted Polish essential workers in the UK. We argue that Covid-19 has reinforced pre-existingContinue reading “Mini-article on Brexit & Covid-19”

Our recent talk on using Facebook Ads for research is available on YouTube! The talk was delivered on 7 April 2022 as part of an excellent seminar series ‘Facebook as a research tool’ organised by Prof. Anja Neundorf and Dr Aykut Öztürk at the University of Glasgow. In the talk, we reflect on how weContinue reading “Watch our talk on using Facebook Ads for research”

Worsening mental health is one of the biggest impacts of the pandemic on those living in the UK (ONS 2021). Pre-pandemic, around one in four people were thought to have a mental health problem. The pandemic is argued to have heightened the risk factors related to mental ill-health such as unemployment, financial insecurity and distress,Continue reading “Covid-19 impacts on mental health “

In our recent guest blog for SPICe – the Scottish Parliament Information Centre – we focused on Polish essential workers in Scotland and their intentions to get vaccinated against Covid-19. In this blog, we look at the vaccine intentions for our entire sample and how it differs by age groups, gender, education level and sectorContinue reading “Vaccine hesitancy among Polish migrant essential workers in the UK”

Defining ‘essential work’ is far from straightforward – it varies across countries and the list of ‘essential work’ jobs has changed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. At the beginning of our research, in November 2020, we adopted the UK Government definition1,2 of essential work as: the type of work that is essential for keeping British societyContinue reading “What essential work do Polish migrants in the UK do?”

Our online survey about the impacts of Covid-19 on Polish essential workers was active for 8 weeks, from 15 February to 12 April 2021, and about 1,100 Polish essential workers living in the UK left valid responses. We were interested to hear from Poles who lived in the UK for at least three months inContinue reading “Our online survey”