Research reports, policy brief and working papers
‘Methodological Nationalism and Epistemological Diversity in (American) Public Administration’ (2023), prepared for Administrative Theory & Praxis, volume 45, issue 2 (with Kim Moloney, Philip Osei, and Yonique Campbell) (download).
'Strategies and policy effects in the global talent race: foreign academics in Singapore' (2017), COMPAS Working Paper WP-17-133, Oxford: COMPAS (with Lucie Cerna) (download).
'How to retain academic talents in Singapore?' (2017), policy brief (August), Singapore: School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (with Jue Wang and Andrew X. Li) (download).
'What attracts academic talents to Singapore?' (2017), policy brief (June), Singapore: School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (with Jue Wang and Andrew X. Li) (download).
'Singapore in the Global Talent Race Survey Report' (2017), Singapore: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (with Jue Wang, Andrew X. Li and Yasmin Y. Ortiga) (download).
'Beyond Delegation: How the European Commission Affects Intergovernmental Policies Through Expertise' (2014), ARENA Working Paper 12 (November), Oslo: ARENA Centre for European Studies (with Marianne Riddervold) (download).
'The non-securitisation of immigration in China?' (2014), EUSC policy paper series, EU-China Security Cooperation: performance and prospects (with Els van Dongen) (download).
Den femte frihet og Kunnskapens Europa: Konsekvenser for Norge (The fifth freedom and the Europe of Knowledge: Consequences for Norway) (2011), Oslo: Forskiningsoppdrag for Utvalget for utredning av Norges avtaler med EU (with Åse Gornitzka) (download).
'EU and the Migration-Development Nexus' (2006), COMPAS Working Paper WP-06-37, Oxford: COMPAS (download)
Reconciling Demand for Labour Migration with Public Concerns about Immigration (2005), London: Anglo-German Foundation (with Christina Boswell and Julie Smith) (download).
Book reviews
Immigration Policies and the Global Competition for Talent (Lucie Cerna, London: Palgrave Macmillan) (2019), Migration Studies 7(1): 152-154 (download).
Global University Rankings: Challenges for European Higher Education (Tero Erkillä, ed., Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) (2015), Journal of Contemporary European Research 11(1): 147-149 (download).
Managing Labour Migration in Europe (Alex Balch, Manchester: Manchester University Press) (2012), Journal of Contemporary European Research 8(1): 153-154 (download).
Immigration and European integration (Andrew Geddes, Manchester: Manchester University Press) (2009), Journal of Contemporary European Research 5(2): 324-325 (download).
Legal Responses to Trafficking in Women in Sexual Exploitation in the European Union (Heli Askola, Oxford: Hart) (2008), Journal of Common Market Studies 46(2): 480-481 (download).
The Politics of Insecurity (Jef Huysmans, London: Routledge) (2007), Journal of Common Market Studies 45(1): 219-219 (download).
Commentaries
‘Politics of deservedness: The case of on-demand food delivery couriers’ (2024), SciencesPo Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d’Evaluation des Politiques Publiques (LIEPP) interview (download).
'Academic Talents in Singapore: Coming, Going or Staying?' (2017), COMPAS Blog, 12-2017 (with Lucie Cerna) (download).
'Is Europe the Gold Standard? There are other regions in the world' (2017), Forum: Discussing international education (member magazine of the European Association for International Education), Spring issue, 'Regionalisation', 04-2017 (download).
'The Politics of Higher Education Policies: Unravelling the Multi-level, Multi-actor, and Multi-issue dynamics' (2017), Ideas on Europe, 03-2017 (with Jens Jungblut, Pauline Ravinet and Martina Vukasovic) (download).
'Towards a transnational politics of higher education' (2016), Ideas on Europe, 07-2016 (with Isaac Kamola and Tamson Pietsch) (download).
'Researching the rise of "higher education regionalisms" around the world: Suggestions for those in the field' (2016), EJHE Online, 06-2016 (with Pauline Ravinet) (download).
'What is higher education regionalism? And how should we study it?' (2016), Ideas on Europe, 01-2016 (with Pauline Ravinet) (download).
'Is Europe missing out on foreign talent?' (2013), University World News, Issue 286, 7 September (with Lucie Cerna) (download).
'Whither the Europe of Knowledge?' (2013), University World News, Issue 285, 31 August (download).
'Fifth Freedom - the free movement of knowledge in the EU' (2011), Higher Education Development Association (Hedda), podcast interview, episode 26 (listen here),