Emily Roper

Emily Roper is a DPhil Candidate in Criminology. Her research looks at border violence and state power, focusing on the management of the Türkiye-Syria border. This research is supervised by Professors Mary Bosworth and Leila Ullrich and is funded by both the University of Oxford's Clarendon Scholarship and Corpus Christi College's A E Haigh Scholarship. 

Alongside her research, Emily worked on an advocacy project with an organisation supporting LGBTQ+ refugees in the Middle East. In 2023, Emily also volunteered on the Women's Prison Project with Turpin & Miller LLP and the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, supporting foreign national women in prison.

Emily holds a BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies (2020) and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (2022) from the University of Oxford. Prior to undertaking graduate study, Emily worked with refugee and asylum seeking young people, coordinating a mentoring and educational support project in the East of England.