Laura Jeffery
Laura Jeffery (FRSA) is Professor of Anthropology and Migration at the University of Edinburgh.
Laura has worked with the displaced Chagossian community from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean since 2001. Her collaborative AHRC project on Cultural Heritage Across Generations produced a Chagos Tambour Group music album, facilitated intergenerational intangible cultural heritage (ICH) transmission workshops, showcased Chagossian heritage in exhibitions and on our open access repository chagos.online, and contributed to the successful nomination of Chagossian tambour music as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2019.
Laura also works on participatory arts methods and creative engagement with migration and displacement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She led an ESRC/AHRC project on Arts for Advocacy: Creative Engagement with Migration in Morocco and an AHRC project on Mobilising Access to Rights for Artists in Morocco, which facilitated artist residencies and generated a series of exhibitions, a downloadable Creative Arts, Migration, and Advocacy toolkit, a guide for (migrant) artists, and a co-edited special issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture on creative engagement with migration. She was Co-Director of the AHRC Maghreb Action on Displacement and Rights Network Plus.
Laura plays cello in Scottish Sinfonia.
Laura has worked with the displaced Chagossian community from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean since 2001. Her collaborative AHRC project on Cultural Heritage Across Generations produced a Chagos Tambour Group music album, facilitated intergenerational intangible cultural heritage (ICH) transmission workshops, showcased Chagossian heritage in exhibitions and on our open access repository chagos.online, and contributed to the successful nomination of Chagossian tambour music as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2019.
Laura also works on participatory arts methods and creative engagement with migration and displacement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She led an ESRC/AHRC project on Arts for Advocacy: Creative Engagement with Migration in Morocco and an AHRC project on Mobilising Access to Rights for Artists in Morocco, which facilitated artist residencies and generated a series of exhibitions, a downloadable Creative Arts, Migration, and Advocacy toolkit, a guide for (migrant) artists, and a co-edited special issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture on creative engagement with migration. She was Co-Director of the AHRC Maghreb Action on Displacement and Rights Network Plus.
Laura plays cello in Scottish Sinfonia.
