Personal profile
Research overview
Hannah's research explores how UK asylum seeker support policy has been problematised and contested in recent years, from an interpretivist perspective. The research traces how policies governing UK asylum seekers' access to services, housing, welfare, and employment are understood and practised at sub-national (Scottish), city (Edinburgh), and intervening levels. It focuses on how policy is (re)interpreted or "translated" as it is implemented. It centres the perspective of and interactions between a range of actors in third, public, and private sectors, including policymakers, practitioners, asylum seekers, and members of the communities within which asylum seekers are placed.
Hannah graduated from University of Oxford's MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in 2023, receiving the annual Best Thesis Prize for her research on the UK's asylum seeker work ban. She holds a BSc in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and has experience working in public sector auditing, and in NGO community organisations which support displaced people in Greece and the UK.