Current PhD Candidates

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

Name
(linked to further information)

Start year / related projects

Thesis title

Supervisory team 

Selected Publications

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 

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 

Completed theses

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

Name

Thesis title

Supervisory team 

Esa Aldegheri

Narrative exchange and intercultural encounter between forced migrants and receiving communities in Torino (Italy) and Edinburgh (Scotland)

Alison Phipps
Giovanna Fassetta
Kye Askins

Lucy Cathcart Frödén

Echolocations: Exploring integration and the ethics of participation through collaborative songwriting

Fergus McNeil
Alison Phipps 
Jo Collinson Scott

Sarah Cox

'You and me, we're the same. You struggle with Tigrinya and I struggle with English.' An exploration of an ecological, multilingual approach to language learning with New Scots

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
Gary Christie

Dobrochna Futro

Translanguaging art: multilingual practices of contemporary artists and their implications for language pedagogy

Elwira Grossman
Alison Phipps
Jennifer Farrar

Helene Grøn

How much home does a person need?’ Interrogating asylum and belonging through collective playwriting

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

Tawona Sitholé

kuwanda huuya: mutualising as intercultural abun-dance in a teaching practice of listening

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

Decolonising African costume and textiles: Naming, symbols and meaning in the Ghanaian context

Alison Phipps
Tawona Sitholé

Hyab Yohannes

The realities of Eritrean refugees in a carceral age

Alison Phipps
Fergus McNeil

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