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
I’m a Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London. I lead the anti-racist Stolen Tools journal, co-convene the Inspiring Ethics group, and founded the Migrant Connections Festival. I research migration and mental health, and have worked on outcomes for survivors of human trafficking. As a freelance consultant I’ve worked on violence affected youth, maternity experiences, supporting torture survivors, mapping out migration services and designing a community-based ethical review. I use/train on ethical, participatory and creative methods (e.g. photovoice and poetry). I’m a qualitative methods expert and host the Qualitative Open Mic podcast. I’ve given keynotes on decolonial research methods at research conferences and have 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