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Lesley McAra

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Lesley McAra holds the Chair of Penology in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh, and is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. For the past twenty-seven years, she has been Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. She has won multiple prizes for research impact, including the ESRC Award for Outstanding Public Policy Impact, and was awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List of 2018 for services to Criminology.

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    How to offer academic asylum to scholars at risk

    The UK has the opportunity to offer give academic asylum to American scholars – for Ben Fletcher-Watson and Lesley McAra, the idea of an Institute of Advanced Studies offers a way to make this happen

    With Ben Fletcher-Watson