Dr. Mayblin is currently undertaking a 3 year study into policy making on asylum seekers and the right to work funded through the ESRC's Future Research Leaders Scheme. She studied at the universities of Birmingham and Warwick and has degrees in Human Geography, European Studies, Social Research Methods, and Sociology. She has worked as a research associate at the Centre for Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University, the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Birmingham, and for the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield.