Georgina Colby is a UK partner on the GRABS project. She is a Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Westminster. Her research in the areas of literature and human rights, and literary forms of activism, takes a feminist approach to address the way in which the arts and humanities can support and empower people experiencing forced migration and the asylum processes in the UK and Europe, and ultimately contribute to bringing about change. From 2018-2021 she led the project Feminist Representations: Violence Against Women, Asylum, Voice and Testimony, a collaboration with Professor Jane Freedman at Université Paris 8, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust.
