Sanctuary Seekers’ Unit

Meet the team

We are a friendly and approachable team, here to provide opportunities and support to students, prospective students and staff with a background of seeking sanctuary. We know that people seeking sanctuary often face numerous barriers and we are committed to finding creative ways to support people to overcome such barriers. We are passionate about our work and our ethos is to provide direct support whenever possible. But if we aren’t able to support someone directly, we always try to signpost them to someone who can.

To get in touch, please email sanctuary@le.ac.uk and one of the team will get back to you.

Aleks Palanak headshotAleks Palanac

Head of Sanctuary


Julie Umarova headshotJulie Umarova

Sanctuary Programme Administrator


Pascale Roussel headshotPascale Roussel

CITE Business Administration Manager


Phil Horspool headshotPhil Horspool

Director of Centre for International Training and Education (CITE)

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