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A Latin American Cultural Arts Centre in Glasgow?

In 2025, I was awarded the Creative Launch Fund to explore the creation of a Latin American Cultural Arts Centre in Glasgow. The project builds on my research into Latin American diasporas in London and Scotland. The funding supported the delivery of three community workshops designed to collectively imagine and co-design the proposed Centre. TheContinue reading “A Latin American Cultural Arts Centre in Glasgow?”

Welcome to This Trip: Young Latin Americans Rewrite Migration Narratives

In recent years, migration has become one of the central battlegrounds of political debate across Europe and the United Kingdom. The rise of far-right movements, fuelled by nationalist rhetoric and anti-immigrant sentiment, has reshaped public discourse on belonging, identity, and citizenship. Migrants are too often cast as threats — whether to economic stability, social cohesion,Continue reading “Welcome to This Trip: Young Latin Americans Rewrite Migration Narratives”

Open for Discussion- Languages and the Pandemic: Public Health Engagement with Multilingual Communities in the UK

In 2021, I was invited to take part of the Open for Discussion, an annual series of conversations convened by experts at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London that brings multidisciplinary humanities perspectives to bear on critical social issues — issues with human dimensions frequently overlooked in current policy debates. TheContinue reading “Open for Discussion- Languages and the Pandemic: Public Health Engagement with Multilingual Communities in the UK”