Biography
Franca is a Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University, working as a Community Embedded Researcher with The Brixton Project on the Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness (C4).
Franca has worked across academia and the charity sector, using qualitative and participatory methods to support communities in their social justice efforts. Her PhD examined how welcome and belonging for migrants is mobilised at community and institutional levels through the City of Sanctuary award scheme.
Franca previously worked at the Young Foundation, where she co-authored a range of reports on issues affecting communities across the UK and at the Youth Endowment Fund, where she helped set up the Peer Action Collective (PAC), a network of peer researchers and changemakers with lived experience of violence.
Publications
- Lehtonen, A., Roeschert, F. & Jones, P. (2026). Practice-Based Education in Sociology: What, Why and How? Sociology.
- Vacchelli, E., & Roeschert, F. (2026). Between solidarity and hostility: Exploring the paradox of community through peer research. Ethnic and Racial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2026.2631054
- Vacchelli, E., & Roeschert, F. (2024). Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary. Citizenship Studies, 28(4–5), 424–443. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2024.2407766
