Welcome to the RefugEAP Network
The RefugEAP Network’s overarching objective is to facilitate the development and implementation of ‘pathway to Higher Education’ English language provision for refugee-background students (RBS), with a particular focus on English for Academic Purposes (EAP). This website brings together tips and tools for practitioners / organisations to use to develop and improve such provision, and to build evidence and expertise within the HE sector in the UK and beyond
Where to?
Check out our top tips on developing robust provision for refugee-background students
Gain some ideas by exploring what others around the sector are already doing
Sign up to our UK sector-wide pledge (announced at the Global Refugee Forum)
Access our growing evidence base when developing / advocating for sanctuary provision
Explore our bank of practitioner resources, including links to CPD and trauma training
Latest from the Blog
Case studies, testimonials and more!
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Pre-sessional English language courses: University telecollaboration as a driver of Global North/South student contact for engineers
Bill Guariento details the EAST Project, through which University of Glasgow pre-sessional students worked with students at the Islamic University of Gaza on an engineering project
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Towards a Trauma-Informed Pedagogy for EFL Teaching with Displaced Students Online
Jonathan Joseph Birtwell explores how trauma-informed pedagogy might be applied to online teaching contexts
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Case study: Implementing research / researching implementation: Integrating trauma-informed pedagogy in training MSc TESOL students volunteering to teach English to Ukrainian Displaced People
Dr Tomasz John discusses how he and his colleague (Dr Joanna McPake) introduced MA TESOL students to trauma-informed pedagogy
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Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) and Trauma Informed Practice (TIP) at the University of Edinburgh
Amelia Harker outlines the University of Edinburgh’s work embedding Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) and Trauma Informed Practice (TIP) at the Centre of Open Learning (COL), as a response to the fallout of the war in Ukraine
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