Love this! We have a garden on campus for our community - nature is so important 💚

Birmingham-based folks, get ready for an exciting film series at Centrala organized by my amazing colleagues at IRiS Stefano Piemontese Angelo Martins Jr #birminghamevents #migrationevents Migrant Voice 🧡 Becoming Adult Penn-Birmingham Fellows Program Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) Birmingham University of Sanctuary

💡💡💡Applications are now open for our 5 Sanctuary Scholarships for undergrad & masters students Uni of Birmingham - please spread the word & follow FGA - University of Birmingham & Birmingham University of Sanctuary for updates on information sessions & open days Refugee-Led Research Hub Migrant Voice 🧡 Refugee Education UK After18 🧡 💡💡💡

Birmingham University of Sanctuary Yes! We are planning to host a few online sessions in March. We will post more information about Sanctuary Scholarship information sessions soon.

For those in Bham On the 9/3; 19/4; 3/5 come along to our IRiS film series at Centrala, where we will show and discuss participatory films produced by Iris colleagues Nando Sigona Dr Jennifer Allsopp Stefano Piemontese. Birmingham School of Social Policy

Some tips from our amazing team at Uni of Birmingham FGA - University of Birmingham Birmingham University of Sanctuary @uniofsanctuary on recruiting for the Sanctuary scholarship (& early insight into our listening exercise research which we'll make available mid 2023): 1. Make support available at application stage (1/3)

...including online & in-person info & support on UCAS & internal Uni application process; 2. provide funds to support applicants to attend open days - many will be choosing from several possible options so this is important to ensure they can choose the right fit (2/3)

...3. create opportunities 4 students at all levels-foundation, undergrad, post-grad; 4. work with local colleges & NGO's to identify candidates & encourage mentoring. 5. stay networked! Refugee Education UK have been crucial allies. Good luck! (3/3) FGA - University of Birmingham birmingham.ac.uk/funding/underg…

‘One year of hell…’ Please watch & share this powerful short animation by Alina Vasieikina, inspired by Dante’s opening lines of Inferno as part of our research & teaching project Reading Dante with Refugees with Trinity College Rome Campus IRiS Reading Dante with Refugees #Ukraine instagram.com/reel/CpDYoyENd…

Are you someone with first-hand experience of Windrush or do you have a family story to tell? Our colleagues at 3-Fold Games would love to hear from you! Please apply now to be part of a 2.5 hour online workshop Sat 11 March (participation fee offered) which I’ll be co-leading ⬇️

Rishi Sunak’s plan for small boats ‘will lock up people fleeing war’ theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…

Free resource launched today - online, self-access trauma-informed ESOL for refugees training materials, available here: le.ac.uk/cite/sanctuary… Contains videos, reading material and activities Universities of Sanctuary BALEAP NATECLA National Centre STAR | Student Action for Refugees NATESOL IATEFL ESOL SIG

Have a look at this blog from Bishop Challoner Catholic College showing how they are introducing School of Sanctuary across the whole curriculum in their big secondary school. bishopchalloner.org.uk/blog/tag/schoo… Birmingham Schools of Sanctuary 🧡 Schools of Sanctuary 🧡

It's on its way! Join us for the launch of the Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture, online on 20 April. Chapters on feminist, decolonial, and queer approaches, on literature, film, museums, education, law, transitional justice, perpetrator testimony, and much more!

I am quite proud of this, and glad to see it out in the world. Now waiting for my copy and planning the book launch with Nando Sigona Paladia Ziss and Laurence Lessard-Phillips. Thanks to all the contributors IRiS. amazon.co.uk/Migration-Disp…

Nice to be quoted in this article Birmingham Live Husna Anjum promoting our sanctuary scholarships for asylum seeker students in the UK for this year Uni of Birmingham. Please sign up for an information webinar on March 30 with Birmingham University of Sanctuary FGA - University of Birmingham👇 birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

Great new publication introducing many themes of displacement from our colleagues and friends IRiS College of Social Sciences Uni of Birmingham