Alexandra Bulat
| Alexandra Bulat Ph.D. | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Romanian and British |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | first English county councillor of Romanian descent |
| 🏛️ Political party | Labour party (UK) |
| Movement | Young Europeans |
Alexandra Bulat is the first English county councillor of Romanian background, elected in local elections, 6 May 2021.[1]
She is a Labour party member for Abbey division, Cambridgeshire County Council, winning 41.77% of the vote and a majority of 205, despite a 25.76% increase in the Green party votes compared to the previous election.[2]
Dr Bulat also won the University College London's (UCL) Provost Public Engagement ' Find Your Voice' Award in 2020 for public engagement by an early career researcher. She is a leading member of 3million and co-manager of their network for Young Europeans and she volunteers with charity Settled which helps EU people on application for 'settled status', following the UK Brexit arrangements.[3] She was invited to write for the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in 2019,[4] and by Al Jazeera to comment on the freedom of movement arrangements finally agreed for Gibraltar on 31 December 2020.[5] She had previously spoken about incipient racism in Romanian language posters about shoplifting appearing in British supermarkets.
As an outspoken advocate of EU citizens rights, and a joint British and Romanian citizen, she has been again subject to online racist and xenophobic abuse, since her election, according to 'The London Economic", and shared her experiences at Labour party events,[6] and with political enquiry into the route to citizenship during the Brexit transition period as mentioned in The Independent.[7]
Her doctorate was based on research on exploring whether local contact affected attitudes towards EU migrants in 'a comparison of British, Romanian and Polish residents' views in two English local authorities in the context of Brexit'.[8] Her studies included ephemera in the British Library where her case study analysis identified a bias in the materials against migrants from certain EU countries.[9] A recent collaboration on EU citizens perceived identity is conducted with Professor Tanja Bueltmann of Strathclyde University.[10]
Bulat also has a Masters degree from Cambridge University and an undergraduate degree at Sussex.[11]
Bulat had spent a year in the UK as a young child, when her father worked here for the NHS, but the family had to return to Romania, so when she came as a student she could not speak English well, but went on to achieve a doctorate from UCL.[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ Zayed, Alya (2021-05-08). "UK's first Romanian county councillor elected in Cambridgeshire". CambridgeshireLive. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ↑ "Election". elections.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ↑ UCL (2020-10-28). "Dr Alexandra Bulat wins a Provost Public Engagement Award 2020". UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ↑ "Bulat, A". National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ↑ Freedom of Movement agreed for Gibraltar - Alexandra Bulat reacts 31.12.2020, retrieved 2021-05-12
- ↑ "Party Conferences 2021 – Partner with us". British Future. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ↑ "UK should remove barriers to becoming British, report warns". The Independent. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ↑ UCL (2017-07-05). "Alexandra Bulat". UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ↑ "Alexandra Bulat". The British Library. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ↑ "Researchers bid to find out how Brexit has affected EU citizens living in the UK". The National. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Alexandra Bulat, born in Romania, she has lived in Great Britain for seven years. She is not there to take jobs away from the British but to study them". Nuoveradici.world (in italiano). 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
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