On Thursday 17 November, Professor Alison Phipps will discuss immigration detention policies in the UK and Europe and their impact on asylum seeker wellbeing, as well as reflect on the current Australian approach and potential ways forward to protecting the wellbeing of asylum seekers

She is Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Co-Convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNET), Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Waikato University, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Principal Investigator for the AHRC Large Grant ‘Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the body, law and the state.’

In 2012 Professor Phipps received an OBE for Services to Education and Intercultural and Interreligious Relations in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

She has undertaken work in Palestine, Sudan, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Germany, France, USA, Portugal and Ghana; has produced and directed theatre and worked as creative liturgist with the World Council of Churches from 2008-2011 for the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation; and regularly advises public, governmental and third sector bodies on migration and languages policy.

Professor Phipps is also the author of numerous books and articles and a regular international keynote speaker and broadcaster.

Her first collection of poetry, Through Wood was published in 2009.

She is the 2016 Visiting EU Thinker in Residence for the Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations, UniSA, which is generously supported by the EU Commission

Please RSVP to enquiries.southgateinstitute@flinders.edu.au