A protest outside Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire

Student chosen for undergraduate research internship

Beth Hudson, who is studying Psychology and Criminology BA(Hons), has been selected to assist in a research project carried out in the School of Applied Social Science.

A protest outside Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire
A protest outside Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire

Beth will receive a bursary to work on a literature review and policy analysis on the project ‘The politics of in/visibility in immigration detention’, led by criminology lecturer Raphael Schlembach.

The initiative is funded by the university’s Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics.The student intern will play a central role in meeting the project’s aims, particularly by carrying out work on an academic literature review, a thematic analysis of legal documents and by producing a database of relevant reports and reviews into immigration detention.

Beth, who is due to graduate this summer, will also use the internship to develop an application for postgraduate research funding.

Read more about the research project.

 

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