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Dr Phillipa Bellemore’s thesis ‘Refugee Mentoring: The Comfort of Strangers’ researched three refugee mentoring programs in Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane.

Hanne Worsoe is from the School of Social Science, University of Queensland. She is in the final months of her doctorate, an anthropological analysis of policy. Her work unpacks the lived effects of Australian policy affecting asylum-seeking people who have come “unauthorised”, by sea, since 2012.
This talk focusses on the impact of temporary visas on asylum-seeking adults’ and young peoples’ capacities to learn under the COVID-19 lockdown.

Tori Stratford: Dr Tori Stratford completed her doctoral research titled ‘The Capacity to Act: Stories of Australia’s Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers’ at Deakin University in 2019. For her presentation at the Adult Learners Festival, Tori will speak about some of the stories that she heard whilst travelling around Australia interviewing young people seeking asylum and the value of story-telling.

Darren Roberts
Director
Learn Auslan Online

Disability Advocate for New Wave Disability

Dr Phillipa Bellemore’s thesis ‘Refugee Mentoring: The Comfort of Strangers’ researched three refugee mentoring programs in Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane.

Darren Roberts
Director
Learn Auslan Online

Disability Advocate for New Wave Disability

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DR Phillipa Bellemore

Dr Phillipa Bellemore’s thesis ‘Refugee Mentoring: The Comfort of Strangers’ researched three refugee mentoring programs in Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. As part of her research, Phillipa spent time volunteering at English language classes for immigrants and refugees. Phillipa will discuss strategies of empowering refugees and people seeking asylum through a caring, reciprocal and strength-based approach to transforming relationships between volunteers, educators and refugees.

"Last year Bass Coast Adult Learning invited Skull Fork to play. The overall experience was welcoming and enjoyable. The participants enjoyed performing and the venue. If you have the opportunity to attend this year's ALW events on ZOOM, I would highly recommend."

Tyler Lorback Disability Support Worker- Scope