Practitioners’ Panel
Armine Nikoghosyan
Panel Chair
Armine is Lead of Immigration Services at GYROS and an Immigration Level 2 Advisor. She has worked at GYROS since 2006 in various roles and with people from a range of diverse backgrounds. Armine is eager for migrant voices to be heard and believes that research plays a big role in achieving this.
Nicola Chanamuto
Lecturer at the Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching (University of Lincoln)
Nicola Chanamuto
Panel Co-Chair
Nicola is a Lecturer at the Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching (University of Lincoln). With a professional background in the community and voluntary sector, Nicola has worked with aid organisations, grassroots charities and social enterprises in the UK and Asia. Her current research looks at the experiences of migrant women who do cleaning work in Lincoln.
Anna Scott
Assistant Director for the Arts Council England funded Transported Creative People and Places arts programme
Anna Scott
Anna is the Assistant Director for the Arts Council England funded Transported Creative People and Places arts programme, based in the University of Lincoln’s Centre for Culture and Creativity. She specialises in public engagement with heritage and the arts, with research interests in public history, commemoration, place and identity.
Bahar Tömek
Founder of ‘We are the Change’, and University of Lincoln MBA Student
Bahar Tömek
Bahar is part of the team launching the new Lincoln Embracing All Nations (LEAN) organisation, working to support diversity and equality in the city of Lincoln. The founder of ‘We are the Change’, Bahar is also working towards her MBA in the Lincoln International Business School. She is an ambassador of the Arya Women Investment Platform and Google WTM.
Heather Hughes
Professor of Cultural Heritage Studies at the University of Lincoln
Heather Hughes
Heather is a Professor of Cultural Heritage Studies at the University of Lincoln. Heather grew up in South Africa and has been active in the anti-apartheid movement. Her research interests include South Africa’s neglected heritage, the memorialisation of war and cultural heritage in the visitor economy. Heather is currently engaged in three large social inclusion projects: on the bombing war in Europe; on migrants in Europe and on Lincolnshire’s neglected heritage. On the panel, she will discuss the Creative Europe WE-Hope project.
Michelle Walsh
Photographer and lecturer in the School of Film and Media at the University of Lincoln
Michelle Walsh
Michelle is a photographer and Senior Lecturer in the School of Film and Media at the University of Lincoln. Michelle is a socially engaged photographer who uses Frierian approaches to facilitate dialogue and change with marginalised groups. She has worked with migrants in Lincoln, particularly Eastern European diasporas, and recently carried out a large scale public arts project called We Are Sincil Bank, which used art to support social cohesion among diverse communities.