Academic Profile

Chloe Bracegirdle is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at Nuffield College. Her main research interests include social networks, intergroup relations, and wellbeing.

Chloe studies how social networks shape individuals and societies. Her past research has, for example, shed light on how friendship networks influence ethnic prejudice, perceptions of discrimination, and mental wellbeing. Chloe’s current British Academy project investigates the socio-psychological drivers of ethnic segregation in UK schools.

From 2020 to 2023, Chloe was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College. As part of the IntegrateYouth project team, she investigated the social integration of immigrant youth in Europe. Chloe received her DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 2020. She has also received an MSc in Psychological Research from the University of Oxford in 2016 and a BSc Hons in Psychology and Language Sciences from University College London (UCL) in 2015.