Our researchers are highlighting and trying to solve the challenges faced by displaced people overseas and in the UK. The University has a number of ongoing research activities highlighted in the table below.
| Name of researcher | Latest publication date | Topic of research |
|---|---|---|
| Viktorija Deucman, Trainee Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychology | 2023 | The impact of war trauma on the children of refugees |
| Professor Timo Kivimaki, Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies | 2022 | Relationship between state fragility and conflict, as well as on the international efforts at protecting civilians in fragile and predatory states. Impact of liberal refugee policies on violent crime in host countries. |
| Dr Alexander Copping, Dr David Coley, Dr Dima Albadra, Dr Francis Moran, Dr Kemi Adeyeye, Dr Sukumar Natarajan, Anna Conzatti, Noorullah Kuchai. Department of Architecture & Civ Eng. | 2022 | Emergency architecture, thermal comfort, and participatory design. Post-disaster construction challenges. |
| Dr Andrea Purdekova, Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies | 2022 | Conflict, Security, Violence & memory, Displacement. Principle area of interest – Rwanda, Burundi. |
| Isabelle Shafer, Doctoral Student, Department of Social & Policy Sciences | - | The role of HE Institutions in the integration of forced migrants in the UK. |
| Tom Avery, Doctoral Student, Department of Education | 2022 | Language barriers, EAL, primary education, integration |
| Heba Al Fara, Doctoral Student, Department of Social & Policy Sciences | 2022 | Global Compact on Refugees |
| Michelle James, Doctoral Student, Department of Social & Policy Sciences | 2022 | UK Asylum Social Protection |
| Dr Jason Hart, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Centre for Development Studies | 2022 | Experience of and institutional response to young people on the margins of society and the global economy. Themes such as protection, child rights, peacebuilding, home, militarisation and asylum. Principle area of interest – Middle East. |
| Dr Naomi Pendle, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Centre for Development Studies | 2022 | CPAID Project in collaboration with LSE: The centre for Public Authority and International Development. Principle area of interest - South Sudan. |
| Dr Rana Jawad, Department of Social & Policy Sciences | 2022 | Social policies and welfare systems of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. |
| Dr Emma Carmel | 2022 | How social and political order is imagined, produced and contested in a range of empirical contexts. |
| Dr Iris Lavi, Department of Psychology | 2022 | Ethnocentrism, universalism, and refugees’ social rights: The Israeli perspective |
| Dr Peter Manning, working with researchers from a variety of UK and international Universities. | - | Human rights, transnational justice concerned with environmental intersections of these fields |
| Dr Katharina Lenner, Department of Social & Policy Sciences | 2021 | Politics of development and social policy, the governance of migration and refugees between the Middle East and Europe. Principle area of interest - Jordan. |