David Herd, Professor of Modern Literature at the School English, has recently been granted £50,000 from the British Academy’s Humanities and Social Sciences’ ‘Tackling the UK’s International Challenges Programme 2019’ to lead the project ‘Hostile Environments: Policies, Stories, Responses’.
The project is for an international network to make a comparative study of the effects of and responses to different hostile environments, and to propose urgently needed changes to national and international asylum practices. Co-applicants from Kent, including Dr Matt Whittle, from Birmingham, including Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge, and from the Refugee Tales project, including Anna Pincus, will collaborate with a team of international academics, activists and people with lived experience of hostile environments. Among the outputs will be briefing papers to the governments of the UK, Italy, Canada and USA, and to international agencies.
The British Academy – Tackling the UK’s International Challenges
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