Poetry as a Site of Knowledge, Action, and Sanctuary: This keynote explores the unique power of poetry in capturing the experience of migration, providing a place of sanctuary, and being...
Dr SOHAIL JANNESARI
Sohail is a Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London. He founded the health inequalities Stolen Tools journal, co-convenes the Inspiring Ethics group, founded the Migrant Connections Festival and hosts the Qualitative Open Mic podcast. His research focuses on migration and mental health; outcomes for survivors of human trafficking; creative, participatory and decolonial methods; equitable knowledge production, and research ethics. As a consultant he’s worked on violence affected youth, maternity experiences, supporting torture survivors, migration services mapping, and designing a community-based ethics review. He’s made media appearances on the BBC and LBC.
Past & Upcoming Events
Qualitative Health Research Conference: Keynote Speaker
Imaginative Roots: Cultivating Decolonial Methods – this talk examines the indispensable role of imagination and creativity in decolonising qualitative research methods. While emphasising their necessity in challenging our current knowledge...
Publications and Articles
- The Modern Slavery Core Outcome Set: A Survivor-Driven Consensus on Priority Outcomes for Recovery, Wellbeing, and ReintegrationOpens in a new tab
- Seeking sanctuary: rethinking asylum and mental health. Epidemiology and Psychiatric SciencesOpens in a new tab
- We are a miraculous mess and that is the only way we can beOpens in a new tab
- What effects the mental health of people seeking asylum in the UK? A narrative analysis of migration storiesOpens in a new tab
- Exploring the challenges of working with migrants, migrant organisations and migrant communities: An ethnography of participatory action research projectsOpens in a new tab
- Racism on the pitch: experiences playing footballOpens in a new tab
- Migrant, Refugee or asylum seeker? How research can resist or enforce the politics of migration, Migration Research GroupOpens in a new tab
- New research reveals adverse effects of discrimination on asylum seeker mental healthOpens in a new tab
- The New Plan for Immigration will only compound mental health issues for refugeesOpens in a new tab
- What pulling down statues of slave owners tells us about fighting systemic racismOpens in a new tab
- Post-migration Social–Environmental Factors Associated with Mental Health Problems Among Asylum Seekers: A Systematic ReviewOpens in a new tab