The IRC Migration theme looks at how cultures, communities and societies are shaped by migration, mobilities and multilocality. Some of the key research interests under this theme are identities, including linguistic identities, belonging, intercultural dialogue, as well as racism and othering. Theme members have led and participated in related funded projects, such as IndyLan, REDI, InterTrainE, Moving Languages, RADAR
Theme lead: Dr Katerina Strani.
Dr Katerina Strani
Associate Professor, Migration theme lead.
Research interests: Intercultural dialogue; identity and belonging in multicultural societies; hate speech (racism and xeno-racism); multilingualism and politics; language and heritage
Research profile here.
Dr Lina Fadel
Assistant Professor in Research Methods, Edinburgh Business School.
Research interests: displacement, home, identity, language, migration, social discourse. Arab & Islamic world, UK.
Full research profile: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/persons/lina-fadel
Dr Yuying Liu
Assistant Professor in Chinese.
Research interests: cultural policy, education, heritage languages, language ideologies, multilingualism, political economy, sociolinguistics. China and Ireland.
Research profile: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/persons/yuying-liu
Dr Gina Netto
Associate Professor in International and Forced Migration.
Research interests: community, displacement, ethnicity, migration, multilingualism
Research profile: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/persons/gina-netto
Jane Bell
Assistant Professor, Languages and Intercultural Studies.
Research interests: education, human rights, identity, intercultural dialogue, minority languages, women. Scotland.
Profile: https://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/profiles/teaching/soss/jane-bell.htm
Chrissa Koundouraki
PhD student.
Thesis topic: Migration and identity negotiation. Perceptions of belonging in Edinburgh’s Greek community
Supervisors: Dr Kerstin Pfeiffer and Dr Lina Fadel
Email: ck2011@hw.ac.uk
Home, identity negotiation, belonging, migration, education, Greek communities in Scotland
Leri Price
PhD student.
Topic: Syrian women’s experience of home and belonging in Scotland
Supervisors: Dr Lina Fadel and Dr Katerina Strani
Leri's research focuses on how Syrian women in Scotland experience home and belonging, with a particular focus on how these may be explored through narratives and creative practice.
Research interests include: narratives of identity, home, belonging, language, displacement
Eilidh Johnstone
PhD student (CTISS and IRC). Translation and affect in Chinese museums.
Thesis topic: How Does a Translated Museum Feel? Text and emotion in multimodal space
Supervisors: Dr Min-Hsiu Liao and Dr Katerina Strani (Joint CTISS–IRC student)
Twitter: @e_translates
email: ej47@hw.ac.uk
Eilidh's research looks at interlingual translation in museums. Eilidh is interested in the ways that museum objects, spaces and texts combine to create an affective experience for the visitor. She is carrying out field work at New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, funded by a Taiwan Ministry of Education Short-Term Research Award.
Dr Philip McDermott (Associate member)
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Ulster.
Research interests: cultural policy, memory, migration. EU, Ireland.
Research profile: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/p-mcdermott
Dr Vitalija Stepušaitytė (Associate member)
Research Information Lead, Scotland's Rural College.
Research interests: home, migration. Lithuania, Scotland.
Profile: https://pure.sruc.ac.uk/en/persons/vitalija-stepusaityte
Dr Katharina Lefringhausen
Assistant Professor in Psychology.
Research interests: acculturation, multiculturalism, globalisation, radicalisation, cultural appropriateness, intergroup relations, creativity.
Research profile: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/persons/katharina-lefringhausen
