Refugee academics will take part in a roundtable discussion to share their experiences confronting professional and personal threats in their native countries along with the challenges of settling and working in the UK. Speakers include the president of the UK Exiled Journalists Network; A female Iranian lawyer and women’s/children’s rights campaigner; A Zimbabwean politics academic; and the talk will be chaired by Sir Martin Harris. This seminar, hosted by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (POLIS), in coordination with CARA and CRASSH, seeks to renew and redouble efforts within the University to support refugee academics and scholars at risk today and in the future. For over 75 years, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) has assisted refugee academics in the UK to adjust to life in the UK and pursue their work in a supportive academic environment.