Alison Phipps - Refugee stories in Scotland

Professor Alison Phipps is the UNESCO Chair of Refugee Integration at the University of Glasgow. In 2012 she received an OBE for Services to Education and Intercultural and Interreligious Relations. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Arts, and of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is also an activist, poet and academic and has a refugee foster daughter, whose experience in coming to Scotland she has written about extensively. She is author of numerous books and articles and a regular international keynote speaker and broadcaster, with regular columns in the national Scottish broadsheet press. Phipps' visit to Aotearoa is hosted by the University of Otago.