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Personal statement

Dr Emma Hill is a Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Å·ÃÀ¸ßÇå.Ìý Her areas of expertise include the coloniality of bordering and citizenship in the Global North, with a focus on the intersections of asylum, race, ethnicity and gender in the policies and governance of welfare and healthcare regimes in the UK and Europe.Ìý

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Dr Hill’s research expertise includes: the devolved/reserved governance of asylum in the UK, the intersections of gender and race in migration governance in Europe, impacts of racialisation in housing and healthcare systems, and the impact of the coloniality power on UK/Scottish/Somali migration dynamics.Ìý Her monograph Navigating the Pathways of Somali Migration to (Post)Colonial Scotland: Between the Edges of Empire was published in 2025 by Palgrave MacMillan.

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Dr Hill is the recipient of a series of prizes and awards, including the James Watt scholarship for PhD research (2013-17), the MacFarlane Prize for ‘outstanding contribution to research’ (2017).Ìý She recently completed a Race.ED Archival Research Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities.Ìý Her previous postdoctoral work includes research undertaken on the Horizon 2020/ESRC-funded GLIMER (Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees) Project (2017-2021), and on the ESRC-funded CoDE (Centre for Dynamics of Ethnicity) on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the housing experiences of racially minoritized populations in England, Wales and Scotland (2021-2023).Ìý Dr Hill completed her PhD in Cultural Research at Heriot-Watt University in 2017.

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Dr Hill is the Programme Lead for the MSc Health and Social Policy, and module lead for the MSc Dissertation in Social Policy/Criminology/International Social Welfare, and for the MSc Placement Dissertation in Health and Social Policy.Ìý She is an Associate Editor for Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Journal, and a Trustee of the Board for Maryhill Integration Network.