UNFILTERED LIVES When refuge isn't safe Findings from SEREDA call for changes to the Home Office’s asylum policy after uncovering the failures of the UK asylum system faced by refugee victims of sexual and gender-based violence.
Social Policy Matters Students and academics share research and opinions from across the School of Social Policy.
09 July 2021 CHASM launch of the Ben Pattison Memorial Prize for Doctoral Researchers The Ben Pattison Memorial prize for doctoral researchers
28 June 2021 The experience of LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in the UK at the time of Covid-19 Laurie Hartley, Asylum Seeker Support Worker at Rainbow Migration, speaks with IRiS Academic, Dawn River, about the experiences of LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in the UK for Pride month 2021.
28 June 2021 How to...tackle 'rape culture' in schools Dr King-Hill discusses what can teachers do to create a safer environment for all students.
28 June 2021 BRACE members to present at this year's HSRUK 2021 Online Conference This year's HSRUK Conference 2021 will be taking place between 6th-8thJuly 2021 and members of the Birmingham, RAND and Cambridge Evaluation (BRACE) Centre will be delivering several presentations and workshops.
24 June 2021 New publication - Temporal bordering in the space of the camp: Producing and contesting abandonment in Skaramagas and Elaionas camps in Athens: Anna Papoutsi, IRiS This paper, based on ethnographic work in Skaramagas and Elaionas camps in Athens in 2017, argues that camps are a temporal, as much as spatial, technology of bordering.
10 June 2021 Calls for a national approach from a policy level to tackle sexual behaviours in schools HSMC academic Dr Sophie King-Hill calls for a national approach from a policy level to tackle sexual behaviours in schools.
21 May 2021 New Paper: The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market New paper: The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market
21 May 2021 'A threat to the right to seek asylum': the New Immigration Plan discussed in the House of Lords 'A threat to the right to seek asylum'. IRiS Director, Professor Nando Sigona discusses the New Immigration Plan in the House of Lords
13 May 2021 Academics from the School of Social Policy submission to Health and Social Care Select Committee Inquiry on the NHS White Paper Senior academics from the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham respond to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry..
11 May 2021 The American Journal of Sociology praises 'Undocumented Migration' The American Journal of Sociology praises 'Undocumented Migration', a book written by IRiS Director, Professor Nando Sigona and colleagues.
30 April 2021 Professor Jenny Phillimore awarded Honorary Doctorate at the University of Gothenburg Professor Jenny Phillimore has been appointed as an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Gothenburg