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Current PhD Candidates

Details of PhD candidates currently being supervised by a member of the Core UNESCO RILA team.

Name (linked to further information)	Start year / related projects	Thesis title	Supervisory team	Selected Publications
Esa Aldegheri	2014	Not just pretty words: narrative media, forced migration, community education and integration in Scotland and Italy	Alison Phipps Giovanna Fassetta	(2020) The role of stories in the design of an online language course: ethical considerations on a cross-border collaboration between the U.K. and the Gaza Strip
Rasim Erdem Avsar	2019	Queer Theatre as Political Intervention	Francesca Stella Alison Phipps Stephen Greer	(2019) Playtext: And So My Face Became My Scar. In Collaborative Playwriting: Polyvocal Approaches from the EU Collective Plays Project
Lucy Cathcart-Froden	2017	'A Language we all understand'? A practice-led exploration of the role of musical communication in (re)integration of people who have migrated and people who have offended	Alison Phipps Fergus McNeil
Dobrochna Futro	2017	Translanguaging art: Investigation into multilingual practices of contemporary artists and their implications for language pedagogy	Elwira Grossman Jennifer Farrar Alison Phipps	(2021) Translingual arts-based practices for language learners, ELT Journal, Volume 75, Issue 1
Eva Hanna	2020	Higher Education Access for Asylum Seekers and Refugees	Alison Phipps Lavinia Hirsu
Elisabeth Samara	2018	Dramaturgy of Exile. Democracy, Justice and Exile in Modern Epic Theatre	Alison Phipps Robert Davis	A Poetic Constitution for Scotland
Hannah Rose Thomas	2020 MIDEQ / ArtLab	Evaluating the human and social Impact of Art for migratory and marginalized people – An Intercultural, Multilingual Approach to Equity	Alison Phipps Gameli Tordzro	Exhibitions
Hyab Yohannes	2018 UNESCO RILA PhD	The Plight of Eritrean Refugees in a Carceral Age	Alison Phipps Fergus McNeil	(2021) Refugee Trafficking in A Carceral Age: A Case Study of the Sinai Trafficking, Journal of Human Trafficking (2020) Commentary, Language and Intercultural Communication, 20:2, 213-217 (2018) 'Born rightless, die rightless', Right to Remain

Completed theses

Details of candidates previously supervised by a member of the Core UNESCO RILA team.

Name	Thesis title	Supervisory team
Sarah Cox	Language Ecologies: Experiences of women involved in the process of separation and reunion and the impact on intergenerational language learning	Alison Phipps Lavinia Hirsu
Catrin Evans	The Arts of Integration: Scottish policies of refugee integration and the role of the creative and performing arts	Alison Phipps Gareth Mulvey
Helene Gron	Migration and Home/lessness: Playwriting in a Globalised World	Michael Bachmann Graham Eatough Alison Phipps
Maria Grazia Imperiale	Developing language education in the Gaza Strip: pedagogies of capability and resistance	Alison Phipps Giovanna Fassetta
Anika Marschall	Performing Human Rights : Artistic Interventions into European Asylum	Michael Bachmann Anselm Heinrich Alison Phipps
Iman Sharif	Pedagogy in an Urban Syrian Refugee School in Turkey: approaches, perspectives, and performances	Michele Schweisfurth Alison Phipps
Sarah Thomas	Making worlds with raven in rural Iceland: entangled memoir for the Anthropocene	David Borthwick Alison Phipps
Gameli Tordzro	Story, Storying and Storytelling - A Reflection on Documentary Film, Music and Theatre as Creative Arts Research Practice	Alison Phipps Andrew Smith
Naa Densua Tordzro	Fashion And Textile Education In The Learning Community	Alison Phipps Tawona Sitholé

Three PhD candidates are working closely with the UNESCO RILA team.

Tryptch of Yezidi Women, survivors of ISIS captivity

Hsiao-Chiang Wang (Hope)