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Selection of news stories, podcasts and opinion pieces featuring the UNESCO Chair team members

News

18 June 23	The National	The past feels close in these times of political turmoil for refugees - By Alison Phipps
14 May 23	The National	The story of 'old' and 'new' Scots is a complex one - by Alison Phipps
2 May 23	The National	Those stuck in Sudan need help - and the UK isn't answering - By Alison Phipps
19 Mar 23	The National	BBC has taken leave of its senses and is censoring dissent - By Alison Phipps
19 Mar 23	The National	Home Office disputes leave refugee children sleeping in cars - By Alison Phipps
9 Mar 23	The National	Alison Phipps: Three key things to know about realities of migration
26 Oct 22	The Herald	Human rights campaigner in call to extend free bus travel in Scotland to asylum seekers Featuring P. Asku
05 Oct 22	The National	Suella Braverman picks up Priti Patel's dregs with her grotesque Rwanda 'dream' A. Phipps
21 Aug 22	The National	Muster Station is an immersive, and confronting experience A. Phipps
7 Aug 22	The National	Trip to the Scottish Crannog centre proved to be more than a day out for group of refugees P. Asku, RILA PhD Researcher
31 July 22	The Scotsman	A. Phipps quoted in "Homesick Ukrainians in Scotland opt for online schooling to keep links with home country" by Jane Bradley
3 July 22	The National	Why we are organising first eco-social People's Summit where nobody is left behind. L. Roberts, B. Leysen, H. Yohannes, A. Phipps
26 June 22	The National	The stories of those who made Scotland their home P. Aksu, A. Phipps
7 May 22	The National	Home Office take note: we’re all from Kenmure Street now By Alison Phipps And Pinar Aksu
22 Mar 22	The National	Why the right to work is so important for those seeking asylum Dan Fisher, Savan Qadir, Pinar Aksu
20 Mar 22	The Scotsman	A. Phipps quoted in 'It is not the most vulnerable being brought to the UK - but those with passports and resources' - by Dani Garavelli
15 Apr 22	The National	Why Boris Johnson's Rwanda plan for English Channel Refugees simply won't work - A. Phipps & P. Asku
13 Mar 22	The Sunday National	Axing Nationality and Borders Bill is first in long list of changes for helping refugees
08 Mar 22	The National	A. Phipps quoted in "Ukrainian refugees blocked from UK by Home Office chaos"
15 Feb 22	The National	UK Government plans to ‘offshore asylum’ – but what will that mean?
25 Nov 21	The National	Priti Patel's stance on refugees shows she has not accepted the reality
21 Nov 21	The National	Special Report: ‘The asylum system is evil ... nobody cares about you’: Harnet’s 16 years of living hell Hyab Yohannes, Alison Phipps, Graham O’Neill
19 Nov 21	Times Higher Education	Alison Phipps quoted in Relief as UK’s ‘very high quality’ global research hubs saved
17 Nov 21	The National	Priti Patel is the one 'gaming the system' when it comes to asylum
14 Oct 21	The National	Is the UK Government deliberately trying to torpedo talks at COP26?
19 Sept 21	The Sunday National	ArtLords of Afghanistan who will not be silenced in Taliban takeover
12 Sept 21	The Sunday National	Alison Phipps: What can we Scots do about this unbelievably cruel Borders Bill? Referenced in relation to resolution 13, rejections of Nationality and Borders Bill, SNP Conference Sept 2021 (11.49)
22 Aug 21	The Sunday National	A new vision of the Crannog centre after fire tore through cultural landmark
20 June 21	The Herald	Opinion: The UK's 'proud history' of welcoming refugees is disputable
30 May 21	The National	Alison Phipps: Artists' nomination prompts reflection on Scotland's links to Malawi
16 May 21	The Sunday National	Crisis in Palestine: ‘Eid Mubarak. From Gaza. From Glasgow’
14 May 21	The National	Alison Phipps: Extraordinary community action led to Kenmure Street victory
19 Mar 21	The Guardian	A. Phipps quoted in 'This happens in Brazil, not Britain': academics in despair as global research funds pulled
17 Mar 21	The National	A. Phipps quoted in "Academics quit in protest over UK Government's foreign aid cuts"
15 Mar 21	Research Professional	A. Phipps quoted in "Independent advisers resign over UKRI funding cuts"
15 Mar 21	The National	How the UK is engaging in the politics of death with Trident upgrade
24 Jan 21	The Observer	A. Phipps quoted in "Fabled ark could be among ancient treasures in danger in Ethiopia’s deadly war"
18 Jan 21	The National	Ayrshire and Afghanistan meet as unique Burns event goes online (A. Phipps presenting during event with First Minister)
15 Jan 21	Church Times	Interview: Alison Phipps academic, linguist, artist. With Terence Handley MacMath.
Dec 20	News from Wales	Welsh poetry commissions announced by language Minister
15 Nov 20	The National	Eritrean culture comes to the fore as part of Unesco’s 75th birthday
18 Oct 20	The Observer	Quoted in "From Sudan to the Park Inn: the tragic story of a migrant’s killing"
1 Oct 20	The National	We must stand firm against cruelty of the Tory immigration system
30 Aug 20	The National	Effect of Home Office policies reaching epidemic proportions
19 Aug 20	The National	Quoted in 'Grave concerns' as Glasgow asylum seekers face hotel stays until 2021
11 Aug 20	Scottish Housing News	Quoted in "Everyone Home unveils ‘triple-lock’ of homelessness mitigation measures in second Route Map"
5 July 20	The National	There is a politics of death in asylum system
1 July 20	The National	This isn’t how we say we aim to treat New Scots
17 May 20	The National	Another life lost to an asylum system predicated on injustice
26 Jan 20	The National	Britain, Brexit and my granddaughter who may never be an EU citizen
25 Oct 19	Bloomberg	Quote in "Just Miles From Trump’s Scottish Golf Course Lies an Oasis for Refugees. Scotland’s open-door approach is a sign of how it’s diverging from the rest of Britain."
21 Oct 19	Politics Home	Cited in "Academic and creative sectors are under threat if we lose free movement within Europe"
9 Aug 19	Otago Daily Times	Refugee integration should be a shared task: professor
24 June 19	The Guardian	Unesco chair blasts 'discriminatory' UK visitor visa system
16 June 19	The National	Sabir Zazai is a remarkable man who makes life better for refugees
12 June 19	The Guardian	Quoted in "Man granted visa to see son collect doctorate says he is 'in a dream'"
28 Apr 19	The National	The African art bringing about real change in the shadow of death
16 Mar 19	The National	Why we should respond to the Christchurch attack with compassion
10 Mar 19	The National	International Women’s Day gave me the greatest gift ... my daughter
23 Dec 18	The National	Sturgeon: Immigration White Paper ‘closes the door on our future’
24 Sept 18	The National	Hospitals are places of peace amid a hostile environment
02 Aug 18	The Guardian	What the Womad visa fiasco tells us about live music in Brexit Britain
26 July 18	The National	We live in cruel times, and courage is made in times like these
15 May 18	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 18	The National	UK should aim for Scotland's ‘hospitable environment’
08 Mar 18	The National	Women on the picket lines are being failed by UK institutions
27 Jan 18	The National	Fire helped remind me of what home means for refugees
05 Dec 17	Otago Daily Times Online News	NZ 'amazing' to refugees
25 Nov 17	The National	Scottish refugee ambassador role for National’s Alison Phipps
18 Nov 17	The National	Detention - "the place where women cry all the time"
12 Oct 17	The National	A tale of humanity, love and reaching out to refugees
04 Oct 17	The National	The success of the far right in Germany is nothing compared to the Tories and Ukip in the UK
30 Sept 17	The National	We shouldn't draw spurious links between violent offenders and their experiences of care
26 Aug 17	The National	Theresa May has succeeded in providing the hostile environment for migrants she promised
31 July 17	The National	Immigration expert slams Liam Fox's 'illogical' comments on freedom of movement
30 July 17	The Sunday Herald	UK's 'secret travel ban' preventing world's best and brightest from entering Scotland
18 June 17	The Sunday Herald	The kindness of strangers: the challenges and rewards of opening your home to refugees

Policy

12 Nov 2020	EDM (Early Day Motion)1127	75th Anniversary of UNESCO
Summer 2020	National Value of UNESCO Report	UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration Through Languages and the Arts highlighted as a key case studies in this report.
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.
05 July 2017	UK Parliament: Israel and Palestinian Talks	Questions raised in Parliament about visa refusals for distinguished visiting academic collaborators

Lectures and talks

10 June 2022	Iona Community Lecture 2022	These Stones Will Shout Aloud: gathering global voices on themes of climate justice, hospitality, faith and the integration of the whole of life. (A. Phipps, H. Yohannes, P. Aksu)
1 June 2022	India Education Diary	University Of Glasgow: Importance Of Modern Language Highlighted By Major Symposium In Glasgow
26 Aug 2021	Reforming the UK's asylum system - Panel Discussion	Royal Society of Edinburgh Curious Programme
21 March 2021	What do we have to do to give Hope to Refugees and Migrants? [event recording]	Scottish Laity Network Lenten Series 5 [event details]
20 Jan 2021	Decolonising Languages in Rural Settings: Towards Equatorial Epistemologies	Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online
27 Oct 2020	Peace-making in a world of conflict with Alison Phipps & Ewan Aitken	SCCR International Conference 2020: 'Connections & Bridging the Divide' [event details]
5 Dec 2019	DeCarle Lecture 8: The Well in Welcome	Victoria University of Wellington
24 Oct 2019	Hosting, Hospitality and Displacement: Opening Words by Prof Alison Phipps	Refugee Hosts International Conference: Without Execution - the Politics and Poetics of Local Responses to Displacement, 24-25th October 2019, UCL
12 Mar 2019	Between a Border and a Breath	Minerva Lecture: Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
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.
20 Nov 2018	Lecture: The Arts of Integrating	Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars
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

2 Jan 2022	BBC Radio Scotland	Sunday Morning with Cathy Macdonald (available until Feb 2022) Cathy is joined by Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow, and Gurjit Singh Lalli to talk about how to build the strong connections and resilient communities we will need to see us through the pandemic and the challenges of 2022.
13 June 21	BBC Radio Scotland	Sunday Morning with Cathy Macdonald, featuring Alison Phipps. To mark UN World Oceans Day - highlighting our reliance on and the need to protect our oceans and seas. A focus on the significance of holy water in different world religions and how that can be translated into care for our environment.
29 Nov 2020	BBC Radio Scotland	Sunday Morning with Cathy Macdonald. With Martin Plaut discussing the political & humanitarian disaster unfolding in Tigray, and ethics of cuts to the UK aid budget.
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

16 June 23	University of Oxford - Border Crimonologies	The Normalisation of Migrant Deaths and Its Implications for Humanity - by Hyab Yohannes
4 May 23	ITI Bulletin	Speech and Silence - by Adam Williamson
15 Nov 22	Greater Govanhill	What Do We Mean by Integration? - featuring Alison Phipps
30 Aug 22	The Conversation	Haacaaluu Hundeesaa: sublime Ethiopian singer who inspired Oromo struggle protesters
20 June 22	RSE Blog	Blog for World Refugee Day
16 Dec 21	ReSourcE issue 68	Down the waters of Loch Tay (page 15)
25 Nov 21	Bella Caledonia	Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 - 2021 Featuring work by Alison Phipps
22 Nov 21	Insight magazine (Children in Scotland member publication)	It's our responsibility to welcome refugees - and redeem their stories Dr Hyab Yohannes
15 August 21	Scottish Business News	Refugee projects awarded £2.8 million to help new Scots settle
19 Mar 21	Scottish Government News - Press Release	Integrating New Scots
5 Mar 21	UK Parliament Web Conference	Refugees and migrants: Humanitarian emergencies, voluntary resettlement and assisted voluntary returns
13 Feb 21	UNESCO UKNC Special report for World Radio Day	Radio: witness and guardian of our world Featuring UNESCO RILA team
13 Feb 21	UNESCO UKNC Blog	World Radio Day - Alison Phipps
10 Feb 21	BBC Radio Scotland: Scotland Outdoors	The Importance of Connecting to the Land for Refugees - A Conversation with Professor Alison Phipps
25 Nov 2020	Artlyst	Artist Hannah Rose Thomas – Tears of Gold – Interview
13 Aug 2020	Climate Fringe Stories	Podcast: Book Launch of Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being by Alastair McIntosh, in conversation with Professor Alison Phipps.
20 June 2020	Christian Aid Facebook	World Refugee Day Poem by Alison Phipps for Christian Aid
18 June 2020	Susanna Wesley Foundation	Poem reading by Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé Gifts are in the Feet Kufemerwa Seeds of Thought Recorded to accompany the book Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration and Community
6 June 2020	Bella Caledonia	When I Needed a Neighbour (opinion)
7 February 2020	OAR FM Dunedin	Centre for Global Migrations and Mornington Methodist Church in Dunedin: Conversation between Behrouz Boochani and Professor Alison Phipps
26 Jan 2020	PEN America	An open letter to His Excellency Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China (signatory)
06 Sept 2019	Channel View Publications / Multilingual Matters blog	A Manifesto for Decolonising Multilingualism
21 Jun 2019	Scottish Funding Council Blog	From an Acorn
14 Jun 2019	Bella Caledonia	Day Dreaming in Darkness
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

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