{"id":319,"date":"2026-03-02T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nationofrefuge\/?page_id=319"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:20:17","slug":"dr-ellen-pilsworth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nationofrefuge\/the-team-nation-of-refuge-britain-refugees-university-of-reading\/dr-ellen-pilsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Ellen Pilsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Associate Professor and <\/strong>Project Lead (UKRI Future Leader’s Fellow)<\/b>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018Refugee policy is an increasingly critical global issue. Our work will provide independent research insight, informed by public engagement with the topic, to help audiences understand and reimagine Britain\u2019s relationship with refugees.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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We need to develop new ways of talking about immigration and asylum that take past and present realities into account. I hope that our research can\u00a0serve to re-orient public understanding and discussion about this complex issue.<\/i><\/div>\n
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As the principal investigator (PI) on the Nation of Refuge project, I\u2019m excited to work with such an impressive interdisciplinary team. <\/i>We\u2019re taking an innovative approach, combining our literary, historical and linguistic specialisms and combining a range of research methods, including oral histories, archives, literary analysis, co-creation with communities, and curating a museum exhibition with Reading Museum.\u00a0<\/i>Public engagement is a core part of the project, and I\u2019m delighted to be working with inspiring community partners.\u2019 \u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Ellen has oversight of the project as a whole and co-leads on research strand 3: 2000 – present day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ellen leads on strand 3 of the research alongside Anenechukwu. Where Anenechukwu focuses on how today’s refugees tell their own stories, Ellen looks at how refugees have been imagined by British people who do not identify as refugees.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited for the opportunity to contribute:<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n