Dr Caitlin Nunn
Reader in Migration and Youth Studies
My profile
Biography
My research is located at the intersection of Refugee/Migration Studies and Youth Studies, with a particular focus on the lived experiences of refugee-background young people. Much of my research involves participatory and arts-based approaches.
My specific research interests include:
- Refugee youth resettlement, integration & transnationalism
- Belonging
- Migration, integration and the environment
- Rural & regional refugee resettlement
- Migration and generations
- Participatory and arts-based methods
Academic and professional qualifications
Academic Qualifications
PhD in Australian Studies (2013), University of Melbourne, Australia
MA Preliminary (Honours equivalent) in Development Studies (2005), La Trobe University, Australia
Graduate Diploma in Development Studies (2004), La Trobe University, Australia
Bachelor of Dramatic Arts in Theatre Production (2000) Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
Professional Qualifications
Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
Certificate II in Applied Language (Vietnamese)
Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)
Membership of professional boards and associations
Member, Editorial Board, Qualitative Research
Member, Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Member, Interdisciplinary Assessment College, UKRI
Impact
Policy and Practice Resources
Healthy Futures for Karen People in Bendigo: Karen language video reports on research findings and stakeholder responses (2020): https://youtu.be/b5ZBhQR7h3Q; https://youtu.be/MLmZXTk50ms
Evidence-based tips for enhancing health and wellbeing of Karen people in Bendigo (2020) Bendigo Community Health Services. https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/composition/Evidence-based_tips_fo…
Supporting meaningful arts engagement for culturally diverse young people: Youth-generated guidance for organisations and artists (2019). MCYS; Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Emerge Cultural Hub (Bendigo, Australia): https://www.mmu.ac.uk/media/mmuacuk/content/documents/mcys/Supporting-meaningful-arts-engagement-for-culturally-diverse-young-people.pdf
Projects
2021-2024 NERC Future of UK Treescapes Grant (£2 million) Voices of the future: Collaborating with children and young people to re-imagine treescapes (Lead Co-I, with Kate Pahl. MMU (PI), Peter Kraftl, University of Birmingham, Simon Carr, Cumbria University, and team. https://treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/; @CYPTreescapes
2021-2023 UKRI Citizen Science Collaboration scheme(£343,832) Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging: a creative exploration of forced migration of ancient historical objects with refugee-background young people Co-I, with Jennifer Cromwell, MMU, Manchester Museum and Sheba Arts. https://historyandbelonging.com/; @history_belong
2022-2025 EPSRC Public engagement for information and communication technologies scheme (£197,358) PEAs in Pods: developing and adopting co-productive public engagement for data and AI research Co-I, with Keeley Crockett, MMU (PI), Noisy Cricket CIC, and team
Teaching
Supervision
Nobila Bano: The role of intergenerational knowledge transfer in mediating migrant background young people’s relations with/in the natural environment
Ahmad Al Shahma: Roads for equitable integration: Re-imagining UK ESOL policies and practices for developing refugees’ sociocultural resilience, integration and citizenship
Kathryn Westwood: The language of school exclusion
Ffion Evans: A qualitative exploration of how living under a ‘professional gaze’ impacts upon the experience, context and practices of ‘digital identities’ for care-experienced young people
Research outputs
Audio-Visual and Arts Outputs
Anas, Nguyen, D.C., Nunn, C. ‘Calais Again’ [Audio-visual work]. Manchester: Manchester Centre for Youth Studies.
The Hope Group, with Nunn, C. (2020) Seeking Hope: A zine created by young people who migrated to the UK as unaccompanied/separated asylum seekers. Manchester Centre for Youth Studies. https://www.mmu.ac.uk/mcys/news/story/?id=12233
Nunn, C., Al Jamal, A., Al Khalaf, A., et. al (2017). From Syria to Gateshead [Exhibition] BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK.
Nunn, C., Aung, N.C., Htoo, W.D., et. al (2016). Belonging in Bendigo [Exhibition] Morley’s Emporium Community Arts Space, Bendigo, Australia.
McPhillips, S., Nunn, C., Aung, N.C., et. al (2016). Belonging in Bendigo: A participatory arts-based research project with refugee background youth in an Australian regional city. [Video] https://vimeo.com/183021948.
Nunn, C., Sharp, T., Nguyen, D.C., et. al (2009). 4us: Young people with refugee backgrounds living in Australia [DVD]. La Trobe Refugee Research Centre, La Trobe University, Australia.
Nunn, C., Nguyen, H.T., Nguyen, D.C., et. al (2009). Translations-Generations: A collaborative, multi-arts event exploring generational change and intergenerational relations among Vietnamese Australians. [Exhibition] Big West Festival, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
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Chapters in books
Nunn, C. (2022) '‘A Quiet Place’: The Natural Environment as a Sphere of (Non)Belonging for Refugee-background Young People in Regional Resettlement Locations.' Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins.
McMichael, C., Nunn, C. (2019) 'Conducting research with people with refugee backgrounds in Australia: methodological and ethical considerations.' The health of refugees: Public health perspectives from crisis to settlement.
Mitchell, S., Nunn, C. (2007) 'Integrating gender considerations into conflict and emergency operations: Providing resources for Australian NGOs.' Aid in Conflict. Nova Science Publishers,
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Reports
Nunn, C., Whittington, E., Newby, L., Gray, P., Smithson, H., Couldwell, C., Jump, D. (2022) Evaluation of Young Manchester Youth and Play Fund. Manchester Centre for Youth Studies.
Nunn, C. (2018) Dispersed Belongings: A participatory arts-based study of experiences of resettled refugee young people in regional cities in Australia and the United Kingdom. A report for project partners.. Manchester Centre for Youth Studies.
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Journal articles
Linn, S., Nunn, C., Hall, O., Cromwell, J. (2024) 'Participatory museum projects with refugee-background young people.' Museums and Social Issues,
Anas, , Nguyễn, D.C., Nunn, C. (2022) 'Calais Again.' Sociological Research Online, 27(3) pp. 569-573.
Edwards, J., Mohammed, N., Nunn, C., Gray, P. (2022) 'Mother Tongue Other Tongue: Nine Years of Creative Multilingualism in Practice.' English in Education, 56(1) pp. 18-30.
Moore, K., Hanckel, B., Nunn, C., Atherton, S. (2021) 'Making Sense of Intersecting Crises: Promises, Challenges, and Possibilities of Intersectional Perspectives in Youth Research.' Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 4pp. 423-428.
Nunn, C., Germaine, C., Ogden, C., Miah, Y., Marsh, J., Kitching, R., Kathrada, N., Hough, K., Harper, I. (2021) 'Precarious Hope: Situated Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Undergraduate Students in Manchester, UK.' Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 4(5) pp. 429-444.
Nunn, C., Spaaij, R., Luguetti, C. (2021) 'Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people.' Leisure Studies, 41(1) pp. 42-55.
Nunn, C., Wilding, R., McKinnon, K., Ku, H.G., Myint, G.P.S.L., Taveesupmai, P.N., O’Keefe, M., Graves, K. (2021) 'Promoting healthy futures in a rural refugee resettlement location: A community-based participatory research intervention.' Journal of Sociology, 58(2) pp. 178-195.
Nunn, C. (2020) 'The participatory arts-based research project as an exceptional sphere of belonging.' Qualitative Research, 22(2) pp. 251-268.
Lenette, C., Banks, S., Nunn, C., Coddington, K., Cook, T., Kong, S.T., Stavropoulou, N. (2019) 'Brushed under the carpet: examining the complexities of participatory research (PR).' Research for All, 3(2) pp. 161-179.
Wilding, R., Nunn, C. (2018) 'Non-metropolitan productions of multiculturalism: refugee settlement in rural Australia.' Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(14) pp. 2542-2560.
Nunn, C., Gifford, S.M., McMichael, C., Correa-Velez, I. (2017) 'Navigating precarious terrains: Reconceptualizing refugee youth settlement.' Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 33(2) pp. 45-55.
Nunn, C. (2017) 'Negotiating national (non)belongings: Vietnamese Australians in ethno/multicultural Australia.' Identities, 24(2) pp. 216-235.
McMichael, C., Nunn, C., Correa-Velez, I., Gifford, S.M. (2017) 'Resettlement of refugee youth in Australia: Experiences and outcomes over time.' Forced Migration Review: Resettlement, (54)
Nunn, C. (2017) 'Translations-Generations : Representing and Producing Migration Generations Through Arts-Based Research.' Journal of Intercultural Studies, 38(1) pp. 1-17.
McMichael, C., Nunn, C., Gifford, S., Correa-Velez, I. (2016) 'Return visits and belonging to countries of origin among young people from refugee backgrounds.' Global Networks, 17(3) pp. 382-399.
Nunn, C., McMichael, C., Gifford, S.M., Correa-Velez, I. (2016) 'Mobility and security: the perceived benefits of citizenship for resettled young people from refugee backgrounds.' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(3) pp. 382-399.
Sharp, T., Nguyen, D.C., Nunn, C., Abdi, Z., Aden, O., Ahmed, L., Ahmed, S., Ahmed, S., Ali, I., Ali, M., Ali, M., Ali, M., Ali, Y., Aseir, K., Hassan, M., Ibrahim, S., Mohamed, I., Mohamed, I., Mohamed, I., Mohamed, S., Mohamud, Z., Mumin, M., Mumin, H. (2016) 'Home: An Exploratory Journey with Young Somali-Australians.' Liminalities : a Journal of Performance Studies, 12(1)
Nunn, C. (2016) 'Introductory Essay: Home: An exploratory journey with young Somali-Australians.' Liminalities : a Journal of Performance Studies, 12(1)
Mcmichael, C., Nunn, C., Gifford, S.M., Correa-Velez, I. (2015) 'Studying refugee settlement through longitudinal research: Methodological and ethical insights from the good starts study.' Journal of Refugee Studies, 28(2) pp. 238-257.
Nunn, C., McMichael, C., Gifford, S.M., Correa-Velez, I. (2014) '‘I came to this country for a better life’: factors mediating employment trajectories among young people who migrated to Australia as refugees during adolescence.' Journal of Youth Studies, 17(9) pp. 1205-1220.
Nunn, C. (2014) 'Introduction: The Belonging Issue.' New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences,
Nunn, C. (2010) 'Spaces to speak: Challenging representations of Sudanese-Australians.' Journal of Intercultural Studies, 31(2) pp. 183-198.
Brook, S., Nunn, C. (2010) 'Vietnamese return narratives in Australian public culture.' Amerasia Journal,
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Conference papers
Crockett, K., Colyer, E., Coulman, L., Nunn, C., Linn, S. (2024) 'PEAs in PODs: Co-Production of Community Based Public Engagement for Data and AI Research.' 30/6/2024 - 5/7/2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),