Decolonising Education
I am working to decolonising university education. As part of these efforts I am leading on the development and delivery of a new module at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School on ‘Decolonising Health: Reimagining Health Equity’. This module teams up with anti-extractivism campaigns such as Resist Glencore and the People’s Health Tribunal to encourage students to make meaningful change with the knowledge they develop. We are also partnering, and sharing knowledge with, colleagues and students in Colombia, and the Yukpa indigenous community. As part of my decolonising work, I founded Speaking Statues, an activist group trying to raise awareness about British colonialism and the impact it has today.
Migrant Solidarity
I founded the The Migrant Connections Festival in 2017. This is a migrant-led festival of art, music, campaigning and healing activities. It is about creating a microcosm of the world we want to see; one where immigration status doesn’t dictate how we relate to each other. In addition to the festival we’ve hosted film screenings, created a cook book, and curated a spoken word poetry evening. Alongside the festival, I founded Walk and Talk Migrant Welcome Tours. These tours introduced people to vital services and spaces in London. We also worked with people who attended our tours to design and run their own tours.
Palestine Solidarity
Palestinian healthcare workers, students and researchers have been producing critical and essential knowledge under incredibly difficult conditions. I am working with Palestinian colleagues to promote their perspectives. This includes organising a Palestine scholarship for the Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre’s Summer School, a seminar on conducting research under siege and a related podcast, and inviting scholars to share their work on the modules and courses that I run (e.g., UNWRA field leads, MSF researchers).As part of this I am supporting the Medical Schools Gaza Solidarity Group.
