Lauren Bouttell

Lauren Bouttell is a postgraduate researcher at the school of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia. Her research looks at adult learning opportunities offered by organisations in England and Scotland for people who are refugees and asylum seekers. She is particularly interested in how policy impacts on learning in local communities, social transformation, and informal learning. Her professional background is as an English language teacher, and she taught English for several years in South-East Asia. She has volunteered as an ESOL teacher for refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland and England.