Liran completed his BA and MPhil in the University of Cambridge. His Masters thesis examined the impact of digital technologies on the practice of public diplomacy. For his PhD, Liran studies how Jewish civil society organizations mobilized to facilitate the integration of Jewish migrants in France and Britain during the post-war period. His PhD project combines historical organizational research with interviews and social network analysis, exploring integration as an inter-organizational process that involves the migrant and his/her ethnic community. This is consonant with Liran’s broader sociological interest in the sociology of integration, organizational theory, social network and social capital theory, and the study of ethnic minority groups.
Some of Liran’s professional experiences outside academia included directing a youth movement for social justice in France, a two-year stint in diplomacy in Austria (as a delegate in the United Nations), and a three-year tour of duty as an analyst in military intelligence.
Liran is a Cambridge Trust Scholar and is also funded by the Economic and Social research Council.
