UNESCO RIELA

UNESCO RIELA: The sounds of integration

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Welcome to the podcast series of the UNESCO Chair on Refugee Integration through Education, Languages, and Arts (RIELA) at the University of Glasgow. We bring you sounds to make you think about integration, languages, culture, society and identity. A collection of academic musings, poetry, lesser heard voices and personal stories for you to enjoy and expand you horizons with. In short: a podcast for everyone with stories from the world, about the world, released fortnightly. We work in collaboration with Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) and its partners. Together, our ai...

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UNESCO RIELA

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Education

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www.gla.ac.uk

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Bonus - Christmas Message 23.12.2022

A wee bonus message for you all. Full show notes, including the names of the speakers and the languages: https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

E43 - Sarah Thomas' The Raven's Nest 07.12.2022

In this 7th episode in the series The Sounds of Good Books, Piki Diamond, Erdem Avşar and Nerea Bello speak with author Sarah Thomas about her book The Raven's Nest, belonging, language learning and indigeneity. For the full show notes, including biographies of the speakers and a glossary of Piki's words in Te Reo Maori, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

E42 - Free to Go with Esa Aldegheri 09.11.2022

This time we have a travel book for you: Free to Go by Esa Aldegheri. Esa talks to Katherine Mackinnon and Hannah Rose Thomas about her journey and the writing of the book and ends with a short reading, to give you a sense of her writing style. Not to be missed! For the full show notes, including biographies, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

E41 - Let's talk about access to education for refugees with Arianne Maraj 26.10.2022

In this episode we hear from another visiting academic, Arianne Maraj, about her research on access to education for refugees in Quebec. Joining the conversation are Eva Hanna and Sawsan Abdelghany, both doing research in similar areas. For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

E40 - Let's talk about theatre with Zoe Hogan 12.10.2022

Welcome to the first episode of our new series The sounds of our affiliates. In this episode you will hear visiting scholar Zoe Hogan in conversation with Pinar Aksu, Catrin Evans and Effie Samara. All four have done work and research in theatre and are discussing philosophical, ethical and political aspects of their work. For their bios, please see the show notes on our website https://bit.ly/the...

E39 - Immersive Soundscape: From Alba to Aotearoa 27.09.2022

In this episode, Brittnee Leysen and Shanara Wallace take you on a journey from Alba (Scotland) to Aotearoa (New Zealand). Get comfortable, lean back, close your eyes and enjoy the journey! This soundscape was first played at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022. For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

E38 Alison Phipps on the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (part 2) 13.09.2022

This is part 2 of the Dr Dan Fisher and Dr Hyab Yohannes' interview with Professor Alison Phipps about her experiences as the UNESCO Chair of Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. The interview takes place in the context of the winding down of the second New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (2018-2022) and its soon-to-be-born third iteration. See E35 for the first half. For the sho...

E37 - The RoundView Sustainability Takeover at the Scottish Crannog Centre With Dr Joanne Tippett 30.08.2022

This episode was recorded on location at the Scottish Crannog Centre, an iron age museum in Kinross, Central Scotland. This summer, the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts ran a two-day Sustainability Takeover at the museum, featuring a range of sustainability-themed workshops and based around Dr Joanne Tippett and Fraser How’s project The RoundView. For the full sh...

E36 - Caroline Lenette on Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization 16.08.2022

In this episode, Assoc Prof Caroline Lenette, Dr Gameli Tordzro and Dr Lucy Cathcart-Frödén discuss Caroline's latest book "Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization". For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.

E35 - Alison Phipps on the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (part 1) 04.08.2022

Interviewers Dr Dan Fisher and Dr Hyab Yohannes interview Professor Alison Phipps about her experiences as the UNESCO Chair of Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. The interview takes place in the context of the winding down of the second New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (2018-2022) and its soon-to-be-born third iteration. For the full show notes please visit https://bit.ly/RI...

E34a - Aoife is Returning 26.07.2022

Bonus! In this episode, Aine McAllister tells us more about her background and the ideas that formed the basis for her poem (see episode 34 for more info). For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.

E34 - Poetry by the keynote poets of the Spring School 2022 19.07.2022

In this track you will hear poems written by the three keynote poets - Nyashadzashe Chikumbu, Esa Aldegheri and Aine McAllister - we invited to the Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022 - "Our Shared Values". The poems were written on 11, 12 and 13 May 2022 respectively and reflect the poets' view of what happened at the event on those days. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit....

E33 - Robert McNeil's Grave Faces 05.07.2022

TW: death, suicide, rape, genocide, PTSD In this episode, UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist Robert McNeil gets interviews by Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow) and Rachel Kerr (King's College London) about his book Grave Faces: A Forensic Technician's Story of Gathering Evidence of Genocide in Bosnia. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

E32 - Christian Hanser about his Tiny Campus and pop-up hospitalities 21.06.2022

In this episode you will hear Christian Hanser discuss his mobile Tiny Campus and his thinking around pop-up hospitalities. Recorded at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022. The first Tiny Campus pop-up event was organised by Michelle Thompson at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and more information about the idea can be found here: [www.tinycampusontour.eu] For the full...

E31 - Exploring Polar Bear Research as Ethical Space, Practice and Process of Engagement 05.06.2022

This episode was recorded at the Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022 - "Our Shared Values" and is a guided workshop that is best done in pairs or small groups. In the first half, Saskia de Wildt explores ways to navigate conflicting values and ethics, before leading us on an exploration of our own in the second half. Tools needed: pen and paper. For the full show notes, please visit https:...

E30 - Poetry by Sawsan Al-Areeqe 10.05.2022

UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist Sawsan Al-Areeqe shares three of her poems in Arabic and English. For the full show notes with Sawsan's biography, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

E29 - Jason Oliver on binary structures and the post-covid society 26.04.2022

Jason Oliver from the Scottish Crannog Centre talks about binary structures and a way forward after the Covid-19 pandemic.

E28 - Collaborative keynote listener poem 2021 12.04.2022

Tawona Sitholé reads out the Collaborative Keynote Listener Poem, created by participants of the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating in May 2021. For the transcript, please head over to https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

E27 - A Settler View from Ongoing Colonized Lands 15.02.2022

Listen to Laura Phillips' presentation A Settler View from Ongoing Colonized Lands, presented at the Unsettled Objects: post-colonial perceptions of belonging, exile and home global forum on 28 September 2021. For the best experience, also view Laura's slides on our Slideshare page [https://www.slideshare.net/secret/nlKI5Uu3viiFTk]. For Laura's biography and abstract, please see the show notes [ht...

E26 - Language in a Globalised World with Khawla Badwan 01.02.2022

In this episode Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale will interview Dr Khawla Badwan on her latest book Language in a Globalised World: Social Justice Perspectives on Mobility and Contact, published by Palgrave McMillan in 2021. For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.

E25 - The Invention of Multilingualism with David Gramling part 2 18.01.2022

In this second episode of our series The Sounds of Good Books, Alison Phipps, Charles Forsdick and Tawona Sitholé continue their conversation with Prof David Gramling from the University of British Columbia, about his latest book The Invention of Multilingualism. Read the full show notes on our website: bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

E24 - Sensation of Blackness 21.12.2021

This episode is a condensed version of a discussion we organised for Black History Month 2021, entitled Sensation of Blackness. Tawona Sitholé interviews Bella Matambanadzo, Ropafadzo Zinyuke and ShaNon Bobinger. Members of the audience also get involved. For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.

E23 - The Invention of Multilingualism with David Gramling part 1 07.12.2021

In this first episode of our new series The Sounds of Good Books, Alison Phipps, Charles Forsdick and Tawona Sitholé enter into conversation with Prof David Gramling from the University of British Columbia, about his latest book The Invention of Multilingualism. Read the full show notes on our website: https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

E22 - Caring and Sharing 23.11.2021

This episode is a condensed version of Neil Curtis's and Eve Haddow's discussion at Unsettled Objects: post-colonial perceptions of belonging, exile and home, which took place on 28-30 September 2021, in collaboration with Glasgow Museums. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.

E21 - Unsettled Objects opening discussion 09.11.2021

In this episode we have tried to capture some of the thinking that came out of the Opening Ceremony of Unsettled Objects: post-colonial perceptions of belonging, exile and home, which took place on 28-30 September 2021, in collaboration with Glasgow Museums. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

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