Esa Aldegheri is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK, investigating how unequal narratives and bordering of refugee journeys affect processes of integration. Her previous research supported the development of the third New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy. As a multilingual scholar, writer and educator she is also active in interdisciplinary projects beyond academia.

Dan Fisher is a political geographer and a research associate at the Centre for Public Policy, University of Glasgow, UK. His areas of interest are the practices of border control, processes of asylum determination and the governance of refugee integration. Dan has engaged widely with the policy community, including through his work with UNESCO-RILA which contributed to the development of the third New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy in 2024.

Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, where she is also professor of languages and intercultural studies and co-convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNET).