E66 - Sawsan Abdelghany on ESOL and the New Scots Refugee Strategy

UNESCO RILA: The sounds of integration

This is the second of a two part conversation between Dr Dan Fisher, and researchers Sawsan Abdelghany, and Adam Williamson on their work on ESOL in the asylum system. In this episode, Dan and Adam are interviewing Sawsan. Sawsan Abdelghany is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Glasgow, and a heritage language tutor. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Masters in TESOL and has worked as an English-Arabic interpreter for asylum seekers and refugees in the Scottish legal system. Her research interests centre around the role of language in helping refugees to integrate.