Silke is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow working on her fellowship ‘From ‘language learning as the key to integration’ to ‘language learning for enriching solidarities in diversity’’.

She joined UCL in October 2021 after completing her AHRC-funded PhD at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She is interested in the lived experience of migrants in London and her interdisciplinary research is situated at the nexus of migration, urban multiculture and diversity, inequality, integration and language/language learning – particularly in the context of the global city and postcolonial migrant metropolis. From a methodological perspective, her work is committed to and centred around ethnography, participatory and collaborative approaches, and the coproduction of knowledge.