UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts

A selection of outputs from the UNESCO Chair.

Newspapers

24 Jun 2019	The Guardian	Unesco chair blasts 'discriminatory' UK visitor visa system
16 March 2019	The National	Why we should respond to the Christchurch attack with compassion
10 March 2019	The National	International Women’s Day gave me the greatest gift ... my daughter
23 Dec 2018	The National	Sturgeon: Immigration White Paper ‘closes the door on our future’
24 Sept 2018	The National	Hospitals are places of peace amid a hostile environment
02 Aug 2018	The Guardian	What the Womad visa fiasco tells us about live music in Brexit Britain
26 Jul 2018	The National	We live in cruel times, and courage is made in times like these
15 May 2018	The National (with Dr Nazmi Al-masri)	'Let's break the bars of the cage of Gaza so, like a bird, I can fly and sing songs of freedom'
01 May 2018	The National	UK should aim for Scotland's ‘hospitable environment’
08 Mar 2018	The National	Women on the picket lines are being failed by UK institutions
27 Jan 2018	The National	Fire helped remind me of what home means for refugees
05 Dec 2017	Otago Daily Times Online News	NZ 'amazing' to refugees
25 Nov 2017	The National	Scottish refugee ambassador role for National’s Alison Phipps
18 Nov 2017	The National	Detention - "the place where women cry all the time"
12 Oct 2017	The National	A tale of humanity, love and reaching out to refugees
04 Oct 2017	The National	The success of the far right in Germany is nothing compared to the Tories and Ukip in the UK
30 Sept 2017	The National	We shouldn't draw spurious links between violent offenders and their experiences of care
26 Aug 2017	The National	Theresa May has succeeded in providing the hostile environment for migrants she promised
31 July 2017	The National	Immigration expert slams Liam Fox's 'illogical' comments on freedom of movement
30 July 2017	The Sunday Herald	UK's 'secret travel ban' preventing world's best and brightest from entering Scotland
18 June 2017	The Sunday Herald	The kindness of strangers: the challenges and rewards of opening your home to refugees

Policy engagements

09 Nov 2017	European Parliament: Culture and Education (CULT) Committee	Prof Alison Phipps and Artist in Residence, Naa Densua Tordzro provided evidence to the committee on the effectiveness of cultural work with refugees. You can read the full briefing here and watch the presentation to the CULT Committee on EU Parliament TV(starts at 09.33)
05 July 2017	UK Parliament: Israel and Palestinian Talks	Questions raised in Parliament about visa refusals for distinguished visiting academic collaborators

Presentations

08 March 2018	Side by Side's 'Faith in Gender Justice' exhibition	Scottish Parliament
25 January 2018	Refugees and Migration: How National Academies Can Work Together to tackle Global Issues	Phipps, A. Royal Society of Edinburgh, Meeting of National Academies.
28 November 2017	Visas, Visits and Refusals: Working in the Border zones Of Resilience, Distress and Wellbeing	Phipps, A. The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) - UWA – Perth.
29 September 2017	Inaugural University of Sanctuary Lecture	Phipps, A. "Asylum Narratives Colloquium", St Patrick's College Drumcondra, Ireland.
29 June 2017	At Home and Exiled in Language Studies: Interdisciplinarity, intersectionality and interculturality	Phipps, A., presented by Forsdick, C. at "Language, Communities and Moving Borders: Theories and Methodologies symposium", hosted by Birkbeck, University of London and the Institute of Modern Language Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London

TV and radio

22 Feb 2019	BBC Radio 4	The Opportunity of Divorce
04 Mar 2018	BBC Radio Scotland	Sunday Morning with Ricky Ross (starts at 1.08, available until 3 April 2018)
06 Dec 2017	Channel 39 Southern Television	UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration visits Dunedin
06 Dec 2017	The News	The South Today News Update (starts at 5.02)
19 Nov 2017	BBC Radio Scotland	Sunday Morning with Cathy MacDonald (starts at 1.05, available until 19 Dec 2017)
18 June 2017	BBC Radio Scotland	Sunday Morning with Ricky Ross Live from the Solas Festival

Online and other media

21 Jun 2019	Scottish Funding Council Blog	From an Acorn
14 Jun 2019	Bella Caledonia	Day Dreaming in Darkness
12 Mar 2019	Minerva Lecture: Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow	Between a Border and a Breath
6 Jan 2019	Broadcasting Scotland	The Full Scottish
Sept 2018	Who is my neighbour?	St Ninian's Episcopal Church Magazine (p. 6)
29 Aug 2018	Scottish Refugee Council Blog	Laughter as Hospitality
05 Aug 2018	Broadcasting Scotland	The Full Scottish
20 June 2018	Annual Lecture video via Independence Live	Do you get my drift?: ‘Sankofa’ and the Arts of Integrating the old with the new
30 May 2018	Society & Space	Border enforcement and the University: a conversation
02 May 2018	Third Force News	New chair for Scots refugee group
01 May 2018	MyScience	UofG Professor to chair Scotland’s refugee integration partnership and strategy
04 May 2018	UNESCO in the UK - News	UofG Professor to chair Scotland’s refugee integration partnership and strategy
11 Mar 2018	Broadcasting Scotland	The Full Scottish
04 Dec 2017	MyGlasgow News	Ambassador Role For Alison Phipps
29 Sept 2017	Academy of Social Science: News Focus	Gedzgem – Resilience: Researching Global Mental Health Multilingually
1 July 2017	Vimeo Documentary	Remote: A Documentary about Drones and Humans
20 June 2017	Inaugural Lecture video	UNESCO Chair Inaugural Lecture