Miranda Simon is Associate Professor, jointly appointed in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI). She is part of Oxford's Center for Advanced Social Science Methods.
She received her PhD in Political Science from University College London in 2019. Before joining Oxford, she was Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Department of Government, University of Essex.
Her research examines how states, international organisations, and bilateral agreements govern migration, and through what mechanisms these instruments shape the decisions of migrants, refugees, and the communities that host them. She studies these questions using field and survey experiments and quasi-experimental designs, with empirical work spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Her work has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, and International Studies Quarterly, among other journals.
Her research has been supported by the International Organization for Migration (funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and the University of Essex.
She is currently Principal Investigator on the NAMAD evaluation, an IOM- and FCDO-funded assessment of livelihood interventions in Egypt and Algeria.
