Professor Sarah Mills

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  • TALKS AND VISITING FELLOWSHIPS – AUTUMN 2025

    I’m looking forward to some visiting fellowships and seminars this term, listed below. All welcome to the talks!

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  • VOLUNTEERING & IMMIGRATION: RESPONSE TO THE UK GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER

    Should volunteering play a role in points-based citizenship policies? In light of the UK Government’s recent White Paper on Immigration, Prof. Matt Baillie Smith (Northumbria University) and I share our thoughts in a new piece in Space and Polity: Immigration and contested politics of volunteering as ‘good behaviour’ We review the legacy of this idea,…

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  • COLLABORATIVE PHD WITH DCMS

    Karen Brown started her PhD at Loughborough University yesterday for a new project I’ll be supervising entitled “Out of School Youth Provision: An Analysis of Funding and Operational Resilience within the Sector. This studentship is part-funded by the Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and co-supervised with Professor Darren Smith (Loughborough University) and Dr…

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  • THE BIG ISSUE

    I’ve written an article for The Big Issue which is available in the physical magazine this week (9th – 15th June 2025) – ‘Apps can make us better citizens – but there’s also a cost’. It’s available for free online, with a different title ‘Should you be rewarded for throwing litter away? How gamification is…

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  • MILITARY GAP YEARS

    I’ve got a new article out in The Conversation today – “UK looks to military gap years to boost recruitment in the face of growing geopolitical tension“. This follows the UK’s Strategic Defence Review, published earlier this week. I was invited to comment and provide some context on the plan for a voluntary programme for…

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  • BRITISH ACADEMY MID-CAREER FELLOWSHIP

    I’ve been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, starting on 1st September 2025.  The project is entitled “Gambling on Political Futures: Geographies of Political Betting”. Here’s a brief summary: “Political betting is a growing market of the trillion-dollar global gambling industry. UK consumers are placing more and more bets on elections, making it an ideal…

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