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Active projects

UNESCO Art-Lab

The RIELA team are co-creators in Art Lab. Art Lab’s objective is to mainstream the arts and culture in humanitarian and development programmes for the advancement of human rights and dignity.

White dove

Decolonising Asylum

This project explores unique empirical, theoretical and metaphysical clues that can deepen our understanding of the realities of displaced people.

UNESCO RIELA Arts Trail banner featuring map of Scotland with UNESCO sites marked and a cartoon woman stood on a ladder looking through binoculars across a forest

UNESCO RIELA Arts Trail

This project looks at the 15 place-based UNESCO designations in Scotland and tries to form creative responses to them.

Sites Unseen

A project that creates learning packs for schools and community groups, based on UNESCO designations.

View of the sea from departing boat

Journey Matters

This project investigates how unequal narratives and bordering of refugee journeys affect integration, focusing on Scotland as an internationally relevant case study.

Finished projects

Migration for Development and Equality

Alison Phipps is Co-Director of the UKRI GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub (2019-2024)

New Scots Refugee Integration Delivery Project

Part of the New Scots refugee integration strategy 2018-22 which aims to ensure refugees live in safe and welcoming communities that enable them to rebuild their lives from the day they arrive in Scotland (2018-2024)

CUSP Network Plus

A network researching conflict transformation through arts and cultural work in communities experiencing tensions and fragility (2020-2023)

GCRF Projects

AHRC UKRI funded projects

The impact of language: A cross-border collaboration for the design, development and promotion of an Online Palestinian Arabic Course (2017-2018)

Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State (2014-2017)