• Research Associate (School of Education)

telephone: 0141 330 3434
email: Teresa.Piacentini@glasgow.ac.uk

Towards a Training Model for Effective Ethical Translation in Health Care Settings in Scotland

Funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council/Scottish Funding Council, this research project brings together a team of researchers in the School of Education and the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow, the School of Health at Glasgow Caledonian University and BEMIS (a non-HE third sector partner).  The aim of the project is to develop a research-based, pedagogical model for effective translation in intercultural health care settings, using drama and role play.

Please visit the Project website for further information.

Research interests

Sociology of migration and forced migration;asylum seekers and refugees;community development; migrant associations; newly settling communities, identities and belonging; discourses of ‘integration’ and ‘settlement’; transition and change; diasporic communities and transnationalism; critical ethnography, critical pedagogy, extended case method and participatory action research.

• “The Contemporary Nature of Racism in Britain, University of Glasgow”, 26 November 2008. Funding received: £2175.00, Funder: Roberts Fund, University of Glasgow
• “Critical Issues in Researching Hidden Communities”, University of Glasgow 30 – 31 October 2008, Funding received: £2885.00, Funder: Roberts Fund  (flyer)

Conference Papers

• 17 June 2011, GRAMNet Postgraduate International Colloquium, University of Glasgow, Paper: “Challenging constructions and problematising representations: a call to resist the uncritical adoption of problematic categories”
• 6-8 April 2011, BSA Annual Conference, London, Roundtable discussion: “Resisting marginalisation through mobilisation: experiences of the everyday lives of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow”
• 29 January 2010, Journeys and Justice, Dept of Geography, University of Leeds, Paper: “Interrogating 'settlement' as journey: where is the destination?”
• 10-12 June 2009, AHRC-CRONEM Annual Conference, University of Surrey, Poster: “Identity Re-making in Exile: an exploration through the lens of Refugee Community Organisations in Glasgow”
• 11-14 April 2009, BSA annual Conference, Cardiff. Paper: “Transitional identities : triggers and trajectories for identity making in exile”
• 26 November 2008, CRREN PG Inaugural Conference, University of Glasgow. Paper: “‘Getting Status’ and the Consequences for Activism and Mobilisation within Refugee Community Organisations”
• 29 May 2008, GARA/Save The Children/CRREN: Race and Poverty Conference. Paper: “Routes out of poverty? An exploration of community responses to poverty and destitution from Refugee Community Organisations in Glasgow”
• 3 October 2007, SAASS, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow: Seminar Paper: “It’s like life without living”: the potential role of asylum seeker and refugee associations in negotiating non-settlement and nurturing solidarity in exile”
• 1-3 September 2007, ESA PhD Workshop ESA Conference: “Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society”, Glasgow Caledonian University, Paper: “Refugee Community Organisations in Glasgow: initial explorations about community and identity in exile”
• 8-9 May 2007, Workshop: Racism, Discrimination and Welfare-State Institutions in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom. University of Glasgow, Paper: “Seeking refuge, finding exclusion: everyday experiences of asylum and discrimination across welfare state institutions”

Reports & Research Consultancy

• Conference Report for International Conference on Human Rights Education & Active Citizenship, BEMIS , November 2011
• Principal Researcher on a 3-month Oxfam funded research project “Equality Act 2010: Law into Practice”. This was a Participatory research project, working with BME/Refugee populations, exploring experiences of discrimination, raising awareness of new legislation, and presenting findings to a policy-maker audience at a project-end conference November 2011.
• Oxfam-Karibu Research Report, “Law into Practice: experiences of discrimination”, November 2011

Knowledge Exchange

• Member of GRAMNet, University of Glasgow Refugee, Aslyum and Migration Research Network  
• Associate Fellow, Third Sector Research Centre, (TSRC) University of Birmingham (Feb 2011-Feb 2012) www.tsrc.ac.uk
• Member of Scottish Refugee Council Refugee Research Network (2008 - present)
• Co-convenor of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Scottish Studies Study Group http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/Scottish+SG) (April 2009 - )
• Research advisor on community organisations, Scottish Refugee Council, Community Development Team (2009 - 2010)
• Research advisor on developing practice guidelines and codes of conduct for interpreters and service users, Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership (2009 - 2010)
• Member, British Sociological Association (since 2008)
• Member, European Sociological Association (since 2007)
• Profile featured in BSA Network magazine, ‘Desert Island Discourse’ (2009)
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (MCIL) (since 2002)
• Associate Member of the Institute of Translators and Interpreters (AITI) (since 2002) 
• Member of the ITI Scottish Network Group (since 2002). 
• Volunteer Translator: Prisoners Abroad 
• I regularly attend national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops and have developed an extensive network of contacts across the UK in my own, and related fields of expertise.