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From cognitive processes to discursive practices: Taking a critical discursive psychology approach to refugee and asylum seeker integration (2024)
Journal Article

Much of the research in social and cultural psychology on refugee integration or acculturation has tended to adopt a socio‐cognitive approach which assumes this to be a ‘process’ with a defined outcome that can be measured as successful or not. Such... Read More about From cognitive processes to discursive practices: Taking a critical discursive psychology approach to refugee and asylum seeker integration.

“Context and safety are everything”: Exploring how pansexual individuals mark and express their identity (2024)
Journal Article

Sexuality marking serves to assert one’s sexuality to others. This can be done through language, behavior, esthetics, and/or other non-verbal cues (Morgan & Davis-Delano, 2016). This research explored how individuals who identify as pansexual mark th... Read More about “Context and safety are everything”: Exploring how pansexual individuals mark and express their identity.

"The asylum system is completely broken": An analysis of justifications and resistance for the UK Government's Rwanda policy in parliamentary debates (2024)
Journal Article

In April 2022, the UK government announced the signing of a 'partnership agreement' with the Government of Rwanda in which some asylum seekers who enter the UK would be transported to Rwanda where their cases would be decided. This 'Rwanda policy' ha... Read More about "The asylum system is completely broken": An analysis of justifications and resistance for the UK Government's Rwanda policy in parliamentary debates.

‘So they hit each other’: Gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial (2023)
Journal Article

This study presents a critical discourse analysis of YouTube comments below five videos of the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial, which was live streamed by the platform in April and May 2022. The analysis examines the discursive resources used by comm... Read More about ‘So they hit each other’: Gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial.

“Just say hi”: Forced migrants’ constructions of local neighbourhoods as spaces of inclusion and exclusion in South Wales (2023)
Journal Article

Integration is often assumed to be a public good and both UK and devolved governments have developed refugee integration strategies to address this aspiration. Within these strategies the development of social bridges with members of the host society... Read More about “Just say hi”: Forced migrants’ constructions of local neighbourhoods as spaces of inclusion and exclusion in South Wales.

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.

‘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.

‘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.

'Unwanted invaders': The representation of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and Australian print media (2015)
Journal Article

In recent months asylum seekers have once again become front page news in many British newspapers with headlines including: "It"s good but I don"t like the food says asylum seeker: 130 migrants move into top hotel" (Daily Express, 25 th September 201... Read More about 'Unwanted invaders': The representation of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and Australian print media.