Emma Walker-Silverman
Emma Walker-Silverman is a doctoral researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre in the Department of International Development. She is broadly interested in intergroup relations and the forces that shape them, and specifically why different people and communities respond so differently to hosting refugees. Her doctoral research uses Twitter content analysis, focus groups, and experimental methods to examine the influence of social media on attitudes towards Syrian refugees in Turkey.
She holds an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Psychology (with dual minors in Turkish Language and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity) from Stanford University, both with distinction. Before coming to Oxford, she worked as a Fulbright researcher and coordinator with local NGOs in Turkey. Alongside research, she is a warden at Lincoln College and plays ice hockey for the Oxford Blues.