Kate Smith

Research Fellow, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences
School of Human and Health Sciences
Member, Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3240-8233

Phone01484 472761
EmailKate.Smith@hud.ac.uk
Websitehttps://research.hud.ac.uk

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24 Citations
3 h-Index

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Biography

I am a Research Fellow (Asylum and Migration) in the Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research. Working also as a Practitioner Manager at WomenCentre UK, I have more than 20 years of experience developing collaborative, participatory and creative projects with women and families seeking asylum, refugees and new migrants. With significant experience in the field of migration, my expertise has developed through long-term research and direct professional practice, service delivery and management with migrant and refugee organisations.

My research focuses broadly on gender, migration, asylum and refugee studies. I am particularly interested in how migration is understood and experienced by women. I have published and presented widely on these topics, including co-editing “Feminist Narrative Research: Opportunities and Challenges” (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). Contributing to many invited presentations at national and international workshops and conferences, I submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights in the United Kingdom, and the UN Day of Discussion - 'The Rights of All Children in the Context of International Migration', where the case of child migrants was clarified with the CRC Committee adopting a higher standard that means immigration detention is always a child rights violation.

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

Membership

Migrant Families, Children and Youth Standing Committee of IMISCOE; British Sociological Association; Leeds Migration Research Network; and WomenCentre.

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Research Output

24 Citations
3 h-Index
7 Chapter
6 Article
1 Book
1 Commissioned report
1 More
- 1 Comment/debate

Creating feminist spaces: occupying hostile environments

Smith, K., McMahon, G. & Davidson, AC., 10 Jul 2020, In : Feminist Media Studies. 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Vulnerability as lived experience: Marginalised women and girls in the UK

Brown, K., Ellis, K. & Smith, K., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Women, Vulnerabilities and Welfare Service Systems. Kuronen, M., Virokannas, E. & Salovaara, U. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, (Routledge Advances in Social Work).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

New and enduring narratives of vulnerability: Rethinking stories about the figure of the refugee

Smith, K. & Waite, L., 3 Oct 2019, In : Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 45, 13, p. 2289-2307 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

1 Citation (Scopus)

Rethinking stories of transnational mothering in the context of international study

Lockwood, K., Smith, K. & Karpenko-Seccombe, T., 1 Jan 2019, In : Women's Studies International Forum. 72, p. 17-24 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

3 Citations (Scopus)

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Forced Migrants and Asylum Seekers: Multiple Discriminations

Koko, G., Monro, S. & Smith, K., 21 May 2018, Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism. Matebeni, Z., Monro, S. & Reddy, V. (eds.). Routledge, (Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter