Nicola Kelly
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Nicola Kelly is an award-winning journalist and writer focused on UK immigration and asylum. Her writing regularly appears in The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, OpenDemocracy, Byline Times and elsewhere. Before moving into journalism, Nicola was a diplomat, posted to Brussels and Istanbul, with stints in Beirut and Rome and secondments to the No 10 Press Office and the Home Office. Her reporting has been referenced in several legal challenges against Conservative Home Secretaries, as well as submissions and human rights reports. In October 2023, she gave evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the government’s failed Afghan resettlement schemes, which was drawn upon in the Afghanistan Withdrawal Inquiry and in questioning to Foreign Office Minister Lord Ahmad. In 2024 Nicola won the News Media Award at the Scottish Media Awards and received a special mention at the One World Media Awards for International Journalist of the Year. She also won Best News Story and Best Feature at the Freelance Journalism Awards the same year. In 2022, she was highly commended for Campaigning Journalist of the Year and shortlisted for Freelance Journalist of the Year at the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards. She was also a finalist in the Social Affairs category for the British Journalism Awards 2022. Nicola regularly features on the BBC, LBC and elsewhere as a media commentator on UK asylum issues, as well as panel discussions, podcasts, journalism conferences and guest lectures at universities across the UK. Her first book, ‘Anywhere But Here: On The Frontline Of Britain's Broken Asylum System’, will be published by Elliott and Thompson in April 2025.
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