Outputs (22)

Inhibiting integration and strengthening inequality? The effects of UK policy making on refugees and asylum seekers in Wales (2021)
Journal Article

In 2001, following the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, four towns and cities in Wales became asylum dispersal locations. Whilst immigration and asylum remain matters reserved to the Westminster government, the Welsh Government has devolved responsib... Read More about Inhibiting integration and strengthening inequality? The effects of UK policy making on refugees and asylum seekers in Wales.

Educators of Healthcare Professionals: Agreeing a Shared Purpose (2021)
Book

What do all healthcare educators have in common: what do they do, know and value? This monograph reports on research to establish the views of health professions educators, regulators, learned societies and professional bodies on the shared values an... Read More about Educators of Healthcare Professionals: Agreeing a Shared Purpose.

‘It’s time we invested in stronger borders’: Media representations of refugees crossing the English Channel by boat (2021)
Journal Article

Refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea in small boats has become a common sight in the media, particularly since the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in 2015. The number of boats crossing the English Channel between the French and UK coasts has been incre... Read More about ‘It’s time we invested in stronger borders’: Media representations of refugees crossing the English Channel by boat.

Achieving consensus on the values and activities of all healthcare educators: A mixed-methods study (2021)
Journal Article

Background: To facilitate a stronger recognition of the importance of the healthcare educator role and clearer communication regarding IPE, consensus is needed regardingn the values and areas of activity that all healthcare educators share, regardles... Read More about Achieving consensus on the values and activities of all healthcare educators: A mixed-methods study.

‘Just eating and sleeping’: Asylum seekers’ constructions of belonging within a restrictive policy environment (2020)
Journal Article

The ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe has drawn attention to the reasons why people risk desperate journeys to seek safety. However, less research has focussed on what happens to those on the move once they have reached their destination country. In recent... Read More about ‘Just eating and sleeping’: Asylum seekers’ constructions of belonging within a restrictive policy environment.

Improving the quantitative research skills of Welsh Baccalaureate teachers through university engagement (2020)
Journal Article

In 2015 the re-designed Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification (WBQ) was launched and, for the first time, students undertaking the qualification were required to complete the Skills Challenge Certificate (SCC). Consisting of four components: the Individu... Read More about Improving the quantitative research skills of Welsh Baccalaureate teachers through university engagement.

'A proud history of protecting refugees': Ambivalent responses to refugee integration in government policy documents (2019)
Journal Article

In recent years asylum seekers arriving in the United Kingdom have been subject to a 'hostile policy environment' (Zetter et al. 2005) initiated by the UK government consisting of dispersal, destitution and detention. At the same time, the UK governm... Read More about 'A proud history of protecting refugees': Ambivalent responses to refugee integration in government policy documents.

How a photograph of a drowned refugee child turned a migrant crisis into a refugee crisis: A comparative discourse analysis (2018)
Journal Article

The ‘refugee crisis’ refers to the on-going movement of people crossing into Europe, in which over 3,692 migrants and refugees died in 2015. A key point in this ‘crisis’ was the publishing of photographs of one of the young children who died. Despite... Read More about How a photograph of a drowned refugee child turned a migrant crisis into a refugee crisis: A comparative discourse analysis.

“It's ok if it's hidden”: The discursive construction of everyday racism for refugees and asylum seekers in Wales (2018)
Journal Article

Wales has a long history of migration; however, the introduction of dispersed asylum seekers in 2001 has led to Wales becoming a more superdiverse nation. Wales has often been positioned as a more “tolerant nation” than England; however, the increasi... Read More about “It's ok if it's hidden”: The discursive construction of everyday racism for refugees and asylum seekers in Wales.

Falling behind: The decline of the rights of asylum seekers in the UK and its impact on their day-to-day lives (2017)
Journal Article

In September 2015 photographs of the body of a young Syrian boy, who had drowned attempting to make the crossing by boat from Turkey to Greece, were published in newspapers around the world. These images led to a rise in public and political sympathy... Read More about Falling behind: The decline of the rights of asylum seekers in the UK and its impact on their day-to-day lives.