Events

The significant increase in young migrant students over recent years presents new challenges in education. Our online workshops with teachers, academics, and other professionals to discuss the issues, and to demonstrate imaginative and innovative ways that teachers and professionals can work with migrant students, enabling them to fully participate in school communities and engage in learning.

The workshops will also encourage discussion and sharing of practice through interaction with education professionals from other schools and countries.

If you are interested in hearing more, please get in touch with our outreach coordinator.

Upcoming workshops:

• 24 February 2023 | Final TEAMS meeting, Edinburgh
• 17 May 2023, 12.30 pm UK time | Talk by and discussion with Prof Joanna McIntyre from the University of Nottingham and Dr Sinikka Neuhaus from Lund University
• Further events to be confirmed

Past workshops:

• Presentation of TEAMS research for school staff in Scotland
• 3 Sept 2021 | Migrant education lessons with Finland: Opportunities, challenges and ways forward?

• allow students to tell their experiences in creative ways,
• work with our professional filmmaker to realise their ideas,
• allow collaboration with subject teachers (arts, history, geography and literature), and
• explore cross-curricular themes of migration and identity.

We can also help organise exhibitions and discussion of students’ artworks in school or online exhibitions.

If you are interested in hearing more, please get in touch with our outreach coordinator.

• Art and filmmaking workshops in Scottish schools (1 – 4 March 2022)
• Art and filmmaking workshops in Finnish schools (25 – 27 April 2022)
• Art and filmmaking workshops in Swedish schools (dates tbc)

These were for schools who expressed an interest in participation, we:

• conducted workshops to introduce the research, giving background about migration in Scotland, Finland, and Sweden,
• discussed the project aims and purposes, as well as details of the research plan, and
• shared information about the different aspects and activities of our project with schools.

If you are interested in hearing more, please get in touch with our outreach coordinator.

• No further dates planned

Past workshops:

• 19 Feb 2021 | Introduction to TEAMS for school staff in Finland
• 19 Feb 2021 | Introduction to TEAMS for school staff in Scotland
• 7 Jan 2021 | Introduction to TEAMS for school staff in Sweden