Dr Gillian McFadyen
PhD (Aberystwyth University) MSc Postcolonial Politics (Aberystwyth University) MSc International Politics (University of Glasgow) BA(Hons) Social Science (Glasgow Caledonian University)
, HEA Fellow
Lecturer
Department of International Politics
Contact Details
- Email: gmm09@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 2.06, International Politics Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622695
- Twitter: https://bsky.app/profile/gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Dr Gillian McFadyen is a Lecturer in International Politics. Gillian's research focuses on the international refugee regime, with a particular focus on the British refugee system.
Gillian has a PhD from Aberystwyth, as well as degrees from Aber (MSc), Glasgow (MSc) and Glasgow Caledonian (BA Hons). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a 2021 alum of the Welsh Crucible.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- IP12520 - Globalization and Global Development
- IP29220 - International Politics and Global Development
- IPM5620 - Refugee Simulation: Knowledge and Application
Coordinator
- IPM5620 - Refugee Simulation: Knowledge and Application
- IP29220 - International Politics and Global Development
- IP12520 - Globalization and Global Development
Lecturer
Moderator
- IP30040 - Dissertation
- IP29220 - International Politics and Global Development
- IPM6020 - Russia at War since 1812
- IPM8220 - Warfare in the 21st Century
- IPM8820 - British Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Twentieth Century
- IPS1160 - Work Placement
- IPS1260 - Work Placement
- GW12420 - Cyflwyniad i Wleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol 1: Cysyniadau Canolog a Sgiliau Craidd
- GW12520 - Globaleiddio a Datblygiad Byd-eang
- GW12620 - Y Tu ôl i'r Penawdau
- GW12920 - Gwleidyddiaeth yn yr Unfed Ganrif ar Hugain
- GW20120 - Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol: Safbwyntiau a Thrafodaethau
- GW25820 - Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell
- GW29920 - Cenedlaetholdeb mewn Theori a Realiti
- GW30040 - Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig
- GW35820 - Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell
- GW39920 - Cenedlaetholdeb Mewn Theori a Realiti
- GWM0060 - Traethawd Hir
- IP10320 - War, Strategy and Intelligence
- IP12420 - Exploring the International 1: Central Concepts and Core Skills
- IP12520 - Globalization and Global Development
- IP12620 - Behind the Headlines
- IP12820 - The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789
- IP12920 - Politics in the 21st Century
- IP20120 - International Relations: Perspectives and Debates
- IP20420 - The Strategy and Politics of Nuclear Weapons
- IP21320 - The Arab-Israeli Wars
- IP21620 - Women and Military Service
- IP22320 - The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
- IP23320 - NATO: From Cold War to Hybrid War
- IP24020 - EU Simulation
- IP25320 - Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918
- IP26020 - The Past and Present of US Intelligence
- IP28820 - Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800
- IP29620 - Women and Global Development
- IP29920 - Nationalism in Theory and Practice
- IP30420 - The Strategy and Politics of Nuclear Weapons
- IP31320 - The Arab-Israeli Wars
- IP31620 - Women and Military Service
- IP33320 - NATO: From Cold War to Hybrid War
- IP34020 - EU Simulation
- IP36020 - The Past and Present of US Intelligence
- IP38820 - Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800
- IP39620 - Women and Global Development
- IP39920 - Nationalism in Theory and Practice
- IPM0060 - Dissertation
- IPM0420 - Intelligence, Security and International Relations in the 20th Century
- IPM0620 - Indigenous Politics
- IPM1920 - International Politics
- IPM2820 - Order-Making in International Politics
- IPM3020 - Logistics in War
- IPM3120 - Race, (Im)mobility, and Incarceration
- IPM3720 - Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics
- IPM4920 - Critical Studies in Asia-Pacific Security
- IPM5620 - Refugee Simulation: Knowledge and Application
Tutor
Gillian teaches in the area of International Politics and Global Development, covering modules on Global Politics, Global Development and Refugee Politics/Simulation. She enjoys engaging in creative pedagogies, and in 2020 she won the Aber SU Student and Staff Award for Creative Teaching.
Research
Gillian's research engages with the area of refugee studies. She is particularly interested in refugee law, the British Asylum system, EU asylum process, as well as applying theories such as hospitality, labelling and coloniality to the refugee regime. She also has an interest in memory, trauma, silence and their application to refugee politics. Gillian's first book, Refugees in Britain: Practices of Hospitality and Labelling was published with Edinburgh University Press (2020). Currently, Gillian is working on three projects 1) exploring colonial legacies within the UNHCR, 2) developing her work on hospitality around the logic of neoliberalism and 3) an ACE Hub Wales, Public Health Wales funded project on Pathway to peace: Digital Storytelling and Forced Migration in Wales, exploring strategies for community cohesion, welcome and sanctuary through digital stories.
A secondary field of research, sees her focuses on political embroidery, using stitching and craftivism as a method of resistance, memory, activism and story-telling. This research has seen her work on multiple projects at the national and international level, with exhibitions at the Tate Modern, Liverpool (2018), British Refugee Council Archives, London (2019) and Bordando Por la Memoria Project. She is co-convenor of the departments political embroidery group, Stitched Voices. In this thread, Gillian is working on an interdisciplinary project with researchers from Swansea and Northumbria University - Maternal Guilt Quilt- an innovative project that explores maternal emotional experiences, through a digitally augmented quilt that narrates mothers experiences of feeding. We are now utilizing the quilt as a tool kit to take to health professionals in order to support perinatal mental services health in Wales.
Expertise: Gillian is interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas: refugee, asylum, hospitality, labelling, memory, trauma, language, detention, coloniality, colonial legacies, human rights, political embroidery/arts, propaganda.
PhDs to completion:
Dr Chloe Sydney - “Why would be go back?” Refugee Decision-Making with Regards to Return
Dr Joanne Elliott - Coercive Control, Displaced Syrians and the Failure to Act.
Dr Joseph Thurgate - An investigation into the politics and problems of disputing and attributing ages to young people seeking asylum in the UK