Language, Power, and Social Boundaries: Dynamics of Inclusion - Exclusion Across Social Spaces
IMISCOE SC EduSocial & CIES-Iscte, in collaboration with Eurac Research & CESSMIR (Ghent University), are pleased to invite you to the sixth session of the Webinar Series “Language, Power, and Social Boundaries: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion Across Social Spaces.”
This series brings together researchers and professionals from around the world to discuss innovative projects on language and power dynamics.
Following the success of our previous meetings, this fifth session on "Reframing Linguistic Deficit: Lessons from the New Scots Restorative Refugee Integration Strategy” will feature:
- Prof. Alison Phipps, UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow and Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Scotland
- Discussant: Dr. Marie Jacobs, Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociolinguistics | Ghent University and Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
This event will take place on December 8, 2026, at 15:00 Lisbon & Glasgow time-GMT (16:00 Brussels), online via TEAMS.
We look forward to seeing you there and engaging in this important discussion on how language shapes our social boundaries.
Register for updated information at the link: https://forms.gle/Tp51poufdV3ACnBp8
Join via Teams:
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/386866122646072?p=Hm8lmx2ZzFyVOBPHkp
Meeting-id: 386 866 122 646 072
Password: jW7Bx6Px
Alison Phipps is the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow and Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies. She was De Carle Distinguished Visiting Professor at Otago University, Aotearoa New Zealand 2019-2020, Thinker in Residence at the EU Hawke Centre, University of South Australia in 2016, Visiting Professor at Auckland University of Technology, and Principal Investigator for 3 separate multimillion pound awards: AHRC Large Grant ‘Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the body, law and the state’; Cultures of Sustainable and Inclusive Peace, and as Co-Director of the Global Challenge Research Fund South South Migration Hub 2019-2024. She is an Ambassador for the Scottish Refugee Council. She received an OBE in 2012 and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2023. In 2025 she was promoted to the highest level academic distinction by the University of Glasgow. Working at this level denotes international recognition as one of a group of world-leaders in her field of study. In 2026 she was awarded a Lifetime Innovator award by the University of Glasgow. She is an academic, activist, educator, essayist and published poet and a member of the Iona Community.
Marie Jacobs is a post-doctoral researcher in the field of sociolinguistics. Having received grants from Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), she is currently working at Ghent University and Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is a member of the MULTIPLES Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society at Ghent University and the CESSMIR Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees. Her research interests include language and migration, asylum interaction in helping encounters and the methodological intricacies of conducting multilingual, intercultural research.