 I'm Marco Distinto, I'm from Italy but I'm based in the UK. I did my PhD at the European University Business School and I concluded it in October 2020. My research was about the experiences of the refugees trapped in Italy after the crisis of 2015 and the daily life inside the reception centres and the relationship between migrants and social workers inside these centres. The issue of migrants experience is important for me because firstly though a privileged one and a migrant myself and then being from the south of Italy I personally witnessed the arrival of the refugees in the country. I realised that often the migrants experience are overshadowed by ideological discourses and episodes of racism so with my research I wanted to tell people about the stories of migrants but also about the social workers because they think that their lives are meaningful and we really can learn from them. These reception centres are often poorly supported and this carries out the risk of shifting the burden of integration on to the migrants. It was the first time for me for an university but I've always felt at home because the open university is really open, it's open to people and it's open to ideas and it is a university that really values academic freedom and it provides you with a good environment where you can share your ideas and you can share your work.