Intercultural Futures Podcast

Listen to the following podcasts where Professor Alison Phipps discusses how governments should approach the ‘integration’ of refugees, how multilingualism is the elephant in the room in Higher Education, and how educational practices are at the centre of the new remit of the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration at Glasgow University.

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Alison Phipps,
Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages, and the Arts

in conversation with

Cristina Ros i Sole,
Senior Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Chair of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication

Professor Phipps is a distinguished scholar, socially engaged activist, and a trailblazer in creative and intercultural methodologies in multilingual communities, with international students, refugee communities, and international NGOS. Alison Phipps takes a decolonising stance to her work by thinking outside Western hegemonic frameworks. An original thinker who takes a radically interdisciplinary approach, her work spans German Theatre Studies, Language Education, Intercultural Studies, Migration and Refugee studies, anthropology, philosophy and critical theory.

She is recipient of several large grants, such as the Researching Multilingually at the Borders of the Body, Language, Law and the State. Her activities go beyond the traditional written academic outputs, and she has experimented and has radically challenged how we disseminate research with her decolonial thinking, poetic vision, and subversive and socially-engaged approach. Professor Phipps is also a sought-after expert in a number of governmental and third sector bodies that advise on migration, refugee, and language policy issues.

Listen to the following podcasts where she discusses how governments should approach the ‘integration’ of refugees, how multilingualism is the elephant in the room in Higher Education, and how educational practices are at the centre of the new remit of the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration at Glasgow University.