Call for participants: The well-being of people involved in research on forced displacement & associated human rights abuses

[Ambrose Musiyiwa]

The following is a message from Victorie Knox —

Dr Victorie Knox of the Refugee Law Initiative conducting research on the well-being of people involved in research on forced displacement & associated human rights abuses<https://forms.office.com/e/pa9LTD5aBq>, which will inform the development of new training and resources and improve research culture in this field. I invite people with experience of such research to take part by completing a 10-minute survey (before the end of March), with the option to self-select for an additional interview (these will take place online or at Senate House over the next month).

This research aims to identify the impact of such work on well-being and how challenges might be addressed. As well as considering those who conduct field research or work directly with affected people, it examines how such work affects desk researchers and allied staff, including interpreters/translators, research assistants, transcribers, analysts and editors.

I seek the views of those who have done such work in academia, independently or for NGOs, government agencies and international organisations, whether as employees, freelance contractors, students, volunteers or independent researchers. I am currently only gathering data from people who lived/worked in the UK or were based at a UK institute or organisation at the time of the research.

If you would like to participate, please click here to find out more and access the survey<https://forms.office.com/e/pa9LTD5aBq>, which should take 10 minutes to complete. If you would also like to self-select an interview, please email me directly and in confidence  v.k...@london.ac.uk<mailto:v.k...@london.ac.uk>

Dr Victorie Knox
Lecturer in Refugee Studies
Course director: Expert Witness Training<https://rli.sas.ac.uk/study-us/short-courses/expert-witness-training>
Course convenor: Researching Refugees
Course convenor: Securing Refugee Protection in Practice
Refugee Law Initiative
School of Advanced Study
+44 7531 352 419

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Ambrose Musiyiwa | Coordinator, Forced Migration and The Arts (Blog), Journeys in Translation (Journal Article; Video Playlist), and The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series (Concept Note; Call for Submissions; Video Playlist; Funding Appeal) | (Ed.) [New Book] Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration (CivicLeicester, 2024. Co-edited with Munya R from the migrants' rights collective, Regularise); Welcome to Britain: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction (CivicLeicester, 2023); Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World (CivicLeicester, 2020)