Susannah Paul
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PhD Topic
Decision making in the Asylum System
Supervisors
Ms Sarah Craig
Kyela Leakey
Biography
Susannah is a PhD candidate funded by an AHRC 1+3 studentship in the project ‘Researching Multilingually at the borders of language, the body, law and the state’. Her research project focuses upon decision making in the Asylum System.
Susannah has also previously worked on various projects relating to Immigration Bail. She co-wrote the ‘Guide to Supporting Detainees in Immigration Bail Hearings in Scotland’ and was involved in the Immigration Bail Observation Project Scotland. For her Master’s thesis she also carried a small empirical study of the use of video link technology in Immigration Bail hearings.
Susannah completed her LLB and MRes in ‘ Equality and Human Rights’ at the University of Glasgow.
Research Interests
I am interested matters relating to asylum and immigration detention. For my PhD research I am focusing on decision making in the asylum context. By drawing on my masters study of sociology I plan to employ a socio-legal approach in my research. I am also interested reflexivity in research, critical legal studies and feminist legal theory.
Awards
AHRC 1+3 studentship funding (2016-2020)
Cornell Club of London Summer Scholarship 2013
Publications
‘Guide to Supporting Detainees in Immigration Bail Hearings in Scotland’ Immigration Bail Observation Project Scotland, 2017, https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_516449_en.pdf
http://sdv.org.uk/control-emotions-immigration-bail-hearings-role-cautioner/