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Last updated 23rd March 2023
Biography
I am a Senior Research Fellow (Asylum and Migration) in the School of Human and Health Sciences and the Just Futures Centre for Child, Youth, Family and Community Research at the University of Huddersfield. My expertise has also developed through working as a manager at WomenCentre with women seeking asylum, refugees and new migrants, and over 25 years of service delivery with migrant and refugee organisations.
I am currently the Co-I on a multidisciplinary participatory action research project CHiLL: ‘Children’s lives in changing places’ (2022-2024), looking at the changing significance of neighbourhood spaces on children’s lives as part of the Global Growing up in Cities project. Led by Professor Helen Lomax and Professor Barry Percy-Smith, University of Huddersfield, and in association with the University of Lincoln and the Open University as well as international and national academic and policy stakeholders, the project is funded by the Nuffield Foundation (£348,000).
I was the Co-I for ‘Corona Chronicles: Children researching their everyday lives, education and relationships during the coronavirus pandemic’ (2021-2022) led by Professor Helen Lomax. Funded by the British Academy (£10,000), we researched inclusively with children in order to hear directly from them about the impacts of the pandemic on their everyday lives, education and relationships. Find out about 'Corona Chronicles' and access videos and resources enabling children to research their everyday lives and wellbeing.
I am the Research Lead for Feminist Spaces, shared and alongside Dr. Anna Davidson and Dr. Grainne McMahon. This research has built a collaborative, capacity-releasing network by pairing up UK and European-based projects of resistance with a range of allied projects in less economically developed countries. Project partners include the Racial Justice Network (West Yorkshire) and RAPAR (Manchester).
Research Expertise and Interests
Membership
United Nations Network on Migration Expert Database from the Migration Research Hub by IMISCOE
British Sociological Association
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Expertise and Interests
- Feminist narrative methodologies
- Concepts of vulnerability and resistance
- Participatory, visual and creative methods
- Narrative constructions of asylum and migration
- Policy and practice related to asylum
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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CHiLL: Children’s lives in changing places
Lomax, H., Percy-Smith, B., Turner, W., Tarrant, A., Smith, K. & Monchuk, L.
1/09/22 → 31/05/24
Project: Research
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Developing arts-Based methods of Knowledge generation and exchange with children during times of global crisis (BaCK CHAT)
1/04/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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Back Chat: A zine created with children aged 11-12 about their lives during the coronavirus pandemic and the period after, told though their images and words
Lomax, H. & Smith, K., 1 Jul 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Creating online participatory research spaces: insights from creative, digitally-mediated research with children during the Covid-19 pandemic
Lomax, H., Smith, K., McEvoy, J., Brickwood, E., Jensen, K. & Walsh, B., 1 Feb 2022, In: Families, Relationships and Societies. 11, 1, p. 19-37 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access12 Citations (Scopus) -
Rethinking Visual Arts-Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic
Lomax, H., Smith, K. & Percy-Smith, B., 1 Sep 2022, In: Sociological Research Online. 27, 3, p. 541-549 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation
Lomax, H. & Smith, K., 1 Sep 2022, In: Sociological Research Online. 27, 3, p. 559-568 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Corona Chronicles: Children researching their everyday lives, education & relationships during the coronavirus pandemic (CHEER): Evidence submitted to the Education Select Committee (Project Phase 3, March 2021 - Creative data by children)
Lomax, H. & Smith, K., 1 Mar 2021, (Submitted) 12 p.Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
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CHEER digital resources
Lomax, H. (Creator), Smith, K. (Creator) & Walsh, B. (Contributor), UK Data Service, 1 Jul 2021
Dataset
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Do No Harm’. Lived Experiences and Impacts of FGM Safeguarding Policies and Procedures. Bristol Study
Smith, K. (Creator), Forward UK, 2021
DOI: 10.34696/ercs-2v52, https://doi.org/10.34696%2Fercs-2v52
Dataset
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CHEER digital resources
Lomax, H. (Creator) & Smith, K. (Contributor), University of Huddersfield, 2020
DOI: 10.34696/es1k-0976
Dataset
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20th IMISCOE Annual Conference
Kate Smith (Participant), Rosa Mas Giralt (Participant), Martha Montero-Sieburth (Participant), Domiziana Turcatti (Participant), Hana Alhadi (Participant) & Noemi Garcia-Arjona (Participant)
3 Jul 2023 → 6 Jul 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
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19th IMISCOE Annual Conference
Kate Smith (Panelist)
1 Jul 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
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A call for stories: Researching with women and girls seeking asylum
Kate Smith (Speaker)
30 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Making the invisible visible: using research to campaign for dignity not destitution during the asylum process
Kate Smith (Speaker) & Mary Brandon (Speaker)
26 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Lomax and Smith (Dec 2020) Corona Chronicles - Education Select Committee evidence REF HSE0729667
Helen Lomax (Participant) & Kate Smith (Participant)
11 Dec 2020Activity: Other activity types › Other
Press/Media
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Experts concerned over discrimination towards women and FGM in the UK
6/02/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Honouring International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
6/02/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Journalists and editors can play a fundamental role in overcoming the stigma and shame attached to Female Genital Mutilation.
6/02/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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FGM safeguarding policies alienate African diaspora communities
5/02/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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FGM safeguarding policies are alienating UK's African diaspora communities
5/02/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research