This research project aims to understand the gendered and intersectional implications of migrant integration policies and practices. More specifically, the project aims to investigate how civic integration measures, such as migrant integration courses, impact on women in comparison to men. It will look at the experiences of different non-EU migrants in three regions in Belgium: Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders. As Belgium is a federal country, there are separate migrant integration policies in each region. Migrant integration courses are offered in Brussels by both the Flemish and francophone communities, which non-EU migrants are not currently obliged to follow, although this is set to change in 2017. This research will fill important gaps in the gender and migration literature in two main ways. Firstly it will contribute to a gendered and intersectional approach to the study of migrant integration policy and practices. Secondly, it will be ground-breaking by investigating migrants' perspectives on the integration process, a bottom-up approach that is currently lacking in the literature. It will make use of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, the 'What's the Problem Presented to be' (WPR) and an Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis (IBPA) Framework to analyse policy discourse on migrant integration, using intersectional feminist theory and a constructivist approach. The analysis will follow a deductive approach to test a hypothesis that Belgian integration policies mainly place the burden on migrant women, in comparison with men, to 'adapt' and 'change'. By carrying out in-depth semi-structured interviews and focus-groups with different migrants, it then will aim to take a theory-building approach to the gendered impact of the integration trajectories in the multi-regional context in Belgium. It is a critical point in time to conduct this project. In 2016 Wallonia introduced a compulsory integration course for non-EU migrants, which has already been the case in Flanders since 2004. Brussels is also set to introduce compulsory integration courses in the course of 2017. The gendered and intersectional impact of integration policies is currently an under-researched area in general, and has never been researched in the Belgian context. Surprisingly, the voices of migrants themselves are absent in both academic and policy debate. This study aims to contribute to filling both of these gaps. Research Question How does the political framing of gender norms and relations in integration policies affect non-EU men and women migrants across Belgian regions? Sub questions 1) How are gender norms and gender relations conceptualised in the integration policies and policy debates in Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels? 2) How is the integration process, including the representation of gender norms and relations, experienced by men and women migrants across the different regions and does it privilege or disadvantage certain groups of migrants? 3) How does the framing (problematising) of gender norms and gender relations in integration policies reflect in migrant conceptions of 'integration' and their formation of (transnational and transcultural) identities?

Since 1922 the BBC has been where Britain learns about itself and the world. It is a cultural institution of global significance, its history central to our understanding of the 20th and 21st centuries. Yet one vital piece of its history has never been accessible to anyone beyond a tiny circle of BBC staff and official historians: its internal archive of 632 recorded interviews - with key programme-makers and presenters such as David Attenborough, Sydney Newman, and John Cole, producers of early television such as Cecil Madden and Grace Wyndham Goldie, pioneering engineers, past directors-general, even Home Secretaries. All were interviewed as they retired and encouraged to speak frankly. Their testimonies offer unique 'ringside' accounts of how the BBC has developed the arts of broadcasting and seen the world of politics and culture. Yet, not only are they inaccessible to all but a select few; they are also unusable - scattered, un-catalogued, preserved in multiple formats from videotape to crumbling paper. BBC CONNECTED HISTORIES brings new digital humanities thinking to bear on this problem. It will digitise these materials to the highest standards and create a digital catalogue of the entire collection. Through generating metadata and tagging each interview, it doesn't just make available individual testimonies; the collection as a whole becomes searchable. Single accounts can be related to one another, themes or events mapped from several angles. Biographies become networked. By publishing this catalogue as 'linked open data' (LOD), the oral histories (OH) become connected to other digitised resources, including those of our Partners - the Science Museum (incl. the National Media Museum), Mass Observation (MO), and the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP), as well as all the BBC's other collections. So anyone searching for material on, say, 'Mrs Thatcher resigns', 'Diana', 'immigration' or 'comedy' can simultaneously discover relevant passages in the OH collection, the BBC's own vast programme archive, the personal accounts of listeners and viewers in MO, or the interviews of broadcasting technicians in BEHP. Or vice versa. This radically expands the ability of any public or academic researcher to connect different sets of evidence - and different perspectives - on BBC history. It provides programme-makers planning output for the BBC's 2022 Centenary with ready access to important though neglected material. The project will present highlights from the OH and linked collections on a series of BBC-hosted '100 Voices' websites, each on a broad theme (entertainment, war, national identity, etc.). These act (a) as high-profile shop-windows for research, (b) as public portals through which the OH catalogue and related resources can be searched, and (c) access-points for the public to upload their own recollections via a 'memory-share' facility, thereby 'crowd-sourcing' a new body of data. 25 new oral history interviews with former BBC staff will be filmed. These will be of individuals not included in the official OH, and will cover their whole lives, not just their BBC career. Each will be transcribed and tagged, linking them to existing resources. This demonstrates to the BBC the value of adopting a different (deeper, more connected) practice in future archival work - as will be written into a 'White Paper' to be presented formally to the BBC. This will also set out how the BBC's attempt to build a 'Digital Public Space' of shared resources might be improved through new policies on openness and user-engagement. Four journal articles, co-authored by the project team and the research fellow, will explore other methodological insights - in media history, oral history, and digital humanities. Finally, the PI, Hendy, is the authorised Centenary historian for the BBC. The new perspectives generated throughout this project will directly inform the monograph single-volume history he publishes in 2022.

Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/how-we-fund-studentships/. Training grants may be to one organisation or to a consortia of research organisations. This portal will show the lead organisation only.

Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/how-we-fund-studentships/. Training grants may be to one organisation or to a consortia of research organisations. This portal will show the lead organisation only.

This project follows on from "'You Can't Move History. You Can Secure the Future': Engaging Youth in Cultural heritage". This project on the Long Live South Bank (LLSB) campaign to save the skate spot in the Undercroft from redevelopment was funded by the AHRC. Until recently, the involvement of young people in heritage debates has typically been as part of a rhetorical strategy that serves to speak for them as future stakeholders. However, as this project demonstrated, the campaign to save the Undercroft was led by young people who were highly engaged political subjects capable of defining their own claims to urban space. There are two stands of academic research underpinning this project. The first strand asks how successive generations of young people developed attachments to the skate spot. The second strand engages with the way in which LLSB activists communicated their attachment to the Undercroft to policy makers and the wider public. Both strands draw on an existing body of archival material and new walking interviews, film interviews and oral histories to develop an understanding of the micro-politics of heritage campaigns. During the project we collaborated critically and creatively with community filmmakers, the BrazenBunch, as well as with the youth engagement officers of the Heritage Lottery Fund. We produced a film and an online exhibition which were presented to heritage and arts organizations during a workshop in central London. Since then we have written and circulated a report drawing out the key themes discussed during the workshop. These processes were genuinely collaborative and were experienced by the academics, filmmaker, campaigners and policy makers as an extremely positive, creative and critical dialogue. The new project aims to continue to extend and develop this participatory ethos. To achieve this we will: Organize a travelling series of screenings for our award-winning film 'You Can't Move History', followed by discussions. Six screenings will take place over the course of a year. Two screenings will engage with audiences interested in thinking differently about the ways in which young people participate in public life. Two screenings will engage with audiences interested in heritage activism in locations beyond the Southbank. Two screenings will engage with audiences interested in participatory film making as a methodological approach to policy/research. All of the screenings will take place outside London. Produce a 'coda' for the original film including footage documenting evidence of impact beyond immediate stakeholders, for example from the screening discussion outlined above. This ten-minute section of film would also document the post-workshop changes in the relationship between young people and policy makers on London's Southbank and offer the Southbank Centre a space to articulate their experience of moving towards a positive and collaborative relationship with the Long Live Southbank campaign. Organize a screening discussion of both the original film and the newly produced 'coda' which will be timed to coincide with the opening of the restored sections of the Undercroft and the Children and Young People's Centre. This event will enable us to demonstrate the ways in which innovative research methods of engagement and co-production feed into policy-making and contribute to the development of better understanding of the ways in which young people articulate their claims to urban space and in doing so participate in public life. Three workshop attendees have expressed an interest in hosting this event (from the Southbank Centre, the British Film Institute and the Museum of London). However, as this decision depends in part upon factors out of our hands (such as the completion of building work!), it will be taken in 2018.