Publications

Policy recommendations:

  1. Impacts of Covid-19 on migrant essential workers in the UK
  2. Impacts of Covid-19 on migrant essential workers in Scotland

Information resources:

  1. Accessing healthcare in the UK
  2. EU citizen advice to claiming benefits in the UK
  3. EU migrants: A toolkit for employers

Findings blogs:

  1. Our online survey
  2. What essential work do Polish migrants in the UK do?
  3. Vaccine hesitancy among Polish migrant essential workers in the UK
  4. Covid-19 impacts on mental health

Articles & guest blogs:

  1. Gawlewicz A, Piekut A, Gilmour M and Wright S (2026) Is migrant essential worker housing the key to systemic resilience during ongoing polycrisis? Learning from the variegated housing experiences and precarities of UK-based EU migrants during Covid-19 and Brexit. International Journal of Housing Policy (early view).
  2. Gawlewicz A (2025) ‘It changes your priorities’: Stay-return motivations among UK’s Polish essential workers in the polycrisis of Brexit and Covid-19. Mobilities 20(5): 853-870.
  3. Piekut A (2024) Time and sample quality in a Facebook ad-generated survey with Polish migrants in the UK. Survey Methods: Insights from the Field. Retrieved from https://surveyinsights.org/?p=19354. The replication package available for reuse is available here: https://osf.io/wbzun/
  4. Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K, Piekut A, Trevena P and Wright S (2024) ‘They made bets that I’d die’: Impacts of Covid-19 on Polish essential workers in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(2): 442-460.
  5. Gawlewicz A (2023) Magic happened: Co-producing a research-inspired exhibition. Research Matters, December.
  6. Gawlewicz A, Narkowicz K and Wright S (2023) Heroes or villains? Migrant essential workers and combined hostilities of Covid-19 and Brexit. Discover Society: New Series 3 (2).
  7. Narkowicz K and Piekut A (2022) Polish key workers feel unwelcome in the UK thanks to Brexit plus Covid. Open Democracy. November, 16.
  8. Trevena P and Grzymkowska M (2021) Addressing vaccine hesitancy among the Polish community in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) Spotlight. September, 14.

Relevant research:

  1. Trevena P (2023) Lessons for mental health service design in Scotland — how can we ensure equal access? See Me. April, 4.
  2. Trevena P (2023) Covid-19: Learnings for supporting migrant and minority ethnic communities. The Third Force News (TFN). January, 11.
  3. Trevena (2022) What can we learn from the COVID-19 response in supporting migrant and minority ethnic populations? The Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) Spotlight. November, 29.
  4. Trevena P, Gawlewicz A and Wright S (2022) Addressing the needs of Scotland’s migrant and minority ethnic populations under Covid-19: Lessons for the future. Project report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.