Ashwiny Kistnareddy wins funding to develop app to support newly arrived young people in UK
Congratulations to Ashwiny Kistnareddy, who has been awarded a John Fell Fund Main Award to develop an app that aims to provide language learning and well-being support for newly arrived young people in the UK.
The UK has recently seen a sharp rise in the number of newly arrived children being sent to new regions with no or limited prior history of resettled or asylum-seeking children. This has led to increased demands for English as Additional Language (EAL) and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) support, along with wellbeing support given the circumstances in which many of these children have left their home countries and arrived in the UK.
In partnership with the Department for Education, Dr Kistnareddy’s project, Newly Arrived Children: EAL and Other Provisions Project, seeks to explore the opportunity for remote access for these young people to support them in regions that are under-resourced and underfunded, and also in cases where the minors are waiting for long periods before being granted asylum. The John Fell Fund Main Award will enable the development, testing and maintenance of an app.