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Current PhD Candidates

Details of PhD candidates currently being supervised by a member of the Core UNESCO RILA 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
Lucy Cathcart-Froden	2017	'A Language we all understand'? A practice-led exploration of the role of musical communication in (re)integration of people who have migrated and people who have offended	Alison Phipps Fergus McNeil
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 RILA 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
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
Dobrochna Futro	Translanguaging art: multilingual practices of contemporary artists and their implications for language pedagogy	Elwira Grossman Jennifer Farrar Alison Phipps
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
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 RILA team.

Tryptch of Yezidi Women, survivors of ISIS captivity

Hsiao-Chiang Wang (Hope)