Dr Kate Smith
School of Health & Society
Current positions
N3000157
Biography
My research and teaching contribute to the generation of new knowledge for understanding how migration (asylum), policies and place are experienced by women and young people. I use art-informed visual and feminist narrative methodologies for researching inclusively and contesting injustices alongside communities. My expertise has also developed through long-term research and professional practice within the women and refugee charity sector with women seeking asylum, refugees and new migrants.
I currently lead British Academy funded research, with Dr Kelly Lockwood (University of Salford) - ‘Mothering in carceral spaces’, a feminist narrative research project with women in the asylum and criminal justice systems in the UK. Building on research in relation to prison and immigration detention, we are looking at how carceral spaces shape and impact women’s experiences of mothering.
I am a Co-I on Nuffield Foundation funded participatory action research, with Prof Helen Lomax (Sheffield Hallam University)- ‘Children's Lives in Changing Places', that seeks to understand the lives of young people growing up in less advantaged neighbourhoods (urban, rural, coastal) to inform positive social change. This research builds on British Academy funded research - Corona Chronicles, with children using collaborative, socially-distanced arts-based methods to chronicle their experiences of the pandemic over time, generating key messages about what they need to recover in accordance with their rights.
Areas of Research
Women and asylum; child refugees and young people; place and borders; carceral spaces; resistance and vulnerability; social justice and human rights; ethics of care; feminist narrative methodologies; creative and visual methods to enable participation and inclusivity.
Qualifications
- 2015
- 2010