Louise Ryan is a senior professor at London Metropolitan University and Director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre.
She has been working on migration for almost two decades and has become a leading scholar in the field of migrant social networks. Her work is pioneering in the field of qualitative social network analysis and she has written many highly cited papers on that topic. She is currently co-editing two special issues (Global Networks and Social Networks), with colleagues, on specific dimensions on social network analysis. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming book for the IMISCOE book series and is writing a monograph on Migration and Social Networks. In 2015 her contribution to migration research was awarded with a Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences.