23 February, 15:00-17:00, Grimond Seminar Room 1 – Workshop and Discussion with Kent Refugee Action Network. 

Recently awarded the Hans Albrecht Foundation Human Rights Award 2022, Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) work with separated young refugee and asylum seekers who have arrived in Kent alone and are claiming asylum. At this workshop, Dr Razia Shariff (CEO, KRAN) and Osama (a KRAN Youth Ambassador) will talk about the organisation’s core work and about their current efforts to counter the incoming Nationality and Borders Bill.  

Dr Razia Shariff has over 25 years of experience working in senior management in the third sector in London and Kent for arts regeneration, training providers, community empowerment networks and development trusts. She was previously Head of the Knowledge Exchange Team of the ESRC Third Sector Research Centre. She has held several trustee roles for women’s charities.  

Osama is one of the first Youth Ambassadors at KRAN. Originally Syrian, he has been in KRAN as a service user and later as an employee for over three years. He is studying Computer Science.