Susan Reardon-Smith

Bio

Susie Reardon-Smith is the Manager and Academic Outreach Facilitator for the University of London Refugee Law Clinic. She oversees the day to day management of the clinic, manages the partnerships, facilitates a number of additional clinic projects and does direct casework. She is qualified at OISC Level 2 in Asylum & Protection, and at Level 1 in Immigration. Susie previously worked as an Academic Support Officer at the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), based at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She holds an MSc in Migration, Mobility and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a Bachelor of Social Science/Arts from the University of Queensland. She also has over three years' experience as a caseworker providing mental health and practical support for refugees and asylum seekers both in the UK and Australia.

Susie is the editor of the RLI blog, available at: https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/

Publications

• (2022) 'Linking Land and Sea: Intersections between Indigenous Peoples’ Dispossession and Asylum Seekers’ Containment by Australia', Migration and Society (published online ahead of print 2022).
• (2020) 'Immobility and the Containment of Solutions: Reflections on the Global Compact, Mixed Migration and the Transformation of Protection', Interventions, with Nicholas Maple and Richard Black: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1845775?journalCode=riij20
• (2018) ‘The Impact of Brexit on UK Asylum Law’, Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, 32(3) with Colin Yeo.