Biography
Imogen Bayley earned her PhD (Comparative History), magna cum laude, at the Central European University. Since completing her doctorate, Imogen has worked as a freelance editor and copywriter with international organizations and renowned think tanks. She is a co-founder of the Centre for Policy Writing (CEPOW), a training consultancy for policy communication.
Imogen is a practice-oriented academic in the field of migration studies. During her first year as a Max Weber Fellow, she successfully published her first book, Postwar Migration Policy and the Displaced of the British Zone in Germany, 1945-1951 (2024). The book is based on her doctoral research and presents the multi-layered historical processes that have impacted practices of migration in the postwar period and its political containment. She has further co-authored a second book, Policy Communications: How to Write an Effective Policy Brief (2025), designed to help policymakers, researchers, advocacy professionals, communications specialists, and anyone who needs to turn complex ideas into clear, compelling, and actionable policy communications.
During the second year of her Max Weber Fellowship, Imogen aims to make a theoretical and empirical contribution to both the policy entrepreneurship and Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) literatures. She plans to investigate how policy entrepreneurs use historical narratives as a part of their policy entrepreneurship strategies in the field of migration policy.