Associate Membership

Liverpool ARK is characterised by its inter-disciplinary membership of 30 academics from across the University's departments and faculties and its external engagement with an associate membership of 44 organisations and individuals.

Public servants and politicians

  • Jill Summers, Liverpool City Council
  • Sue Neely, Liverpool City Council
  • Councillor Nathalie Nicholas, Labour Councillor for Picton Ward

Third Sector

  • Sahir House, Liverpool
  • Family Refugee Support Project, Liverpool
  • Liverpool Asylum Outreach and Support Project
  • British Red Cross Liverpool (Refugee Services)
  • Ice and fire / Outreach: Actors for Human Rights
  • Lesbian Immigration Support Group
  • Wirral Change
  • Asylum Link, Liverpool
  • MRANG, Liverpool
  • Living Refugee Archive, London
  • Migrant Help UK
  • RASA (Rape & Sexual Abuse) Centre Merseyside
  • Liverpool Community Development Services (LCDS)
  • Merseyside Network For Change
  • Asilo in Europa, Italy
  • Association Aide aux Familles et Victimes des Migrations Clandestines (AFVMC), Cameroon
  • Sola Arts

Academic institutions and research centres

  • School of Nursing and Allied Health, LJMU
  • Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law (CSEL)
  • Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study - University of London

Academics

  • Jacqui Lovell, York St John University
  • Dr Ana Beduschi, University of Exeter
  • Claire Bennett, NatCen Social Research
  • Professor Dora Kostakopoulou, University of Warwick
  • Dr Matilde Ventrella, University of Wolverhampton
  • Andrea Ingram, University of Chester
  • Sajida Ismail, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Dr Katia Bianchini, Max Planck Institute in Goettigen
  • Dr Cristiano d'Orsi, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
  • Andrea Ingram, University of Chester

Professionals

  • Tom Hardwick, Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP
  • Irene Karapetyan, Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP
  • Peter Simm, GMIAU (Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit)
  • Julia Nelki, Alderhey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Carl Dutton, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool
  • Flor Tercero, lawyer, France
  • Rebecca Horn, freelance psychosocial specialist

Other groups and individuals

  • Student Action for Refugees (STAR) Liverpool
  • Denise Cottrell-Boyce, ex-collaborator of MRANG
  • Maya Mitter, OLC Productions
  • Andre Olchowski, Liverpool Cultural Champion
  • Hannah Paterson, Big Lottery Fund
  • Kinga Pacak, Interpreter and volunteer to Merseyside Polonia

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