Dr Maya Goodfellow

Overview

Maya Goodfellow is a Presidential Fellow in the Department of International Politics. Her current project examines the rise of private security companies in immigration enforcement in the UK. Beyond this, her work focuses on four intersecting areas of research: racial capitalism, immigration and bordering, the politics of international development and animal rights.

Outside of academia, Maya has worked extensively as a political commentator, including in broadcast broad, on a range of issues related to contemporary British politics. She currently works with the Guardian on a series of interviews focused on the climate crisis.

Maya was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Researcher at SPERI, University of Sheffield.

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