ALICE MPOFU-COLES
Alice is currently writing her thesis as PhD candidate and Research Assistant Human Geography at the University of Reading in the School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science. Alice is also working on a Professional Specialist Role on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the university to address race equality. Her research is on Identity and Transnational activities Among Young Zimbabwean Diaspora in the UK.
For over 15 years she volunteered at the Reading Refugee Support Group (RRSG) both as vice-chair and chair including being involved in the Gruntivig Women’s Project – Women Refugees Learning together in Europe. She is currently a trustee of the Reading City of Sanctuary and Alliance for Cohesion and Racial Equality (ACRE) and a specialist Ambassador for Global Female Wave of Change. She is also involved in Universities of Sanctuaries in the UK – leading Universities to give scholarships to refugees and be a safe space for sanctuary seekers. She also advocates and portrays a more positive image of refugees, black people, women, young people by participating in numerous projects. She has done BBC television documentary and interviews on refugees' plight, poverty, women and speaks at events and conferences. She furthers her activism by writing, actively involved with different human rights organisations, democracy, education and poverty.
Alice was given the most inspirational refugee women Driver award in 2020. She nominated the Reading Refugee Support Group for the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, and this was awarded in 2019 receiving it from the Queen’s representative, Sheriff of Berkshire. She was given an Honorary Masters of Universities by the Open University in 2013 at Poole's ceremony for her services to refugees, communities, education, and civil services. She was presented with an award by the then President Chissano of Mozambique in 1996 for her writing on working with culturally diverse communities. This was achieved while working as a diplomat in Mozambique and preceded a posting to the former Yugoslavia, Belgrade. She worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Zimbabwe, was posted to Belgrade and then Maputo. She also worked in the office of the Vice President of Zimbabwe.
She has a BA in Social Work, MA in International Relations and Forced Migration Summer School course at Oxford University. In the UK, she started working in a sandwich factory, army barracks, care homes and then decided to train as a social worker. She worked in the local authority social care from 2004 until 2017 when she decided to do her PhD.
Despite her adversity of losing seven family members in 13 years, Alice wrote a book DEAR GOD FROM YOUR POACHED EGG BREAST about her breast cancer experience in 2007, chemotherapy and mastectomy while studying. She continues to advocate for breast cancer awareness in women with interviews on BBC and grassroots community group. She is standing as a Councillor Candidate in Reading in the UK May 2021 elections.
“You can lose everything, but nobody can take your education away.” part of the speech of Alice speaking to OU graduates when she was receiving the Masters Honorary Award from Open University https://youtu.be/9TsHg2dVGHY
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