Alison Phipps | |
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| Education | PhD in German and Cultural Studies University of Sheffield |
| Occupation(s) | First UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts |
| Employer | The University of Glasgow |
| Known for | research into global refugees, asylum and migration, and using inter-cultural language and arts, influencing government policy and helping individual migrants |
Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and holds the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts.[1][2] She has been awarded the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society[3] and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,[2] and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[4]
She is co-director of the £25 million Global Challenge Research Fund programme with Heaven Crawley, Coventry University, and two professors in Ghana and Haiti, looking at arts and language in the global South, because, in her words, that is where 85% of migration occurs.[3]
Alison Phipps is a member of the Iona Community.[2]
- ^ "Alison Phipps". Scottish Refugee Council. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ a b c "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Education - Our staff - Professor Alison Phipps". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Interview: Alison Phipps academic, linguist, artist". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Forty-seven leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences". Academy of Social Sciences. March 2017. Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2021.