Our work
Selected work.
We have worked across research, evaluation, facilitation, co-production and training with charities, universities, public bodies, local authorities and international organisations. Every project below involved working closely with communities, not just studying them. Filter by the kind of work, or search for a project.
Co-production · The Lancet / Freedom Fund, with survivor leaders, researchers and anti-trafficking partners internationally
Lancet Series on Human Trafficking and Health
Co-editing an international Lancet series while developing and evaluating a model for survivor leadership in academic knowledge production.
Co-production · Developed with Iranian and Afghan people with lived experience of seeking sanctuary in the UK
Poems by Sanctuary Seekers
A creative anthology turning qualitative research on the UK asylum process and mental health into poetry and lived-experience writing.
Training · University of Birmingham / ASP-belong international research team
Qualitative Analysis Across Three Countries
Interactive qualitative-analysis training for a UK, Portugal and Czechia research team working with young people and school staff.
Research · EP:IC / UKHSA
National TB Action Plan
Qualitative research on migrant and voluntary sector attitudes to TB screening for EP:IC Consultancy and UKHSA. Reports used by Sir Chris Whitty in shaping national policy.
Co-production · King’s College London / Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; funded by Evelina London Children’s Charity
Co-Producing Improvement in Care: Preterm Birth Photovoice
A photovoice research project on pre-term births with Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital.
Co-production · King's College London / Maternity Voices Matter / Mummy’s Day Out
Maternity Experiences Photovoice
A community photovoice project exploring inequalities in maternity care through women’s photographs and stories.
Co-production · Rushmoor Borough Council
A Rushmoor Community Anthology
Designing and running a social cohesion poetry workshop on migration for Rushmoor Borough Council.
Research · King's College London, with a Lived Experience Advisory Panel; NIHR Research for Patient Benefit-funded programme
Sexual Health Services and Severe Mental Illness
Analysing and writing up data on access to sexual health services for people with severe mental illness, with King's College London.
Facilitation · University of Sheffield
Participatory Research and the Open Research Agenda
A creative University of Sheffield workshop exploring where open research and participatory research reinforce, and conflict with, one another.
Co-production · UKRI Future Leaders Fellows development programme
Influencing for Inclusive Institutions Toolkit
Research and co-design translating lived experience of institutional change into practical tools for researchers trying to make organisations more inclusive.
Co-production · ATLEU
ATLEU Rise & Lead Fellowship Evaluation
A participatory evaluation of a survivor-leadership fellowship, designed and delivered with peer evaluators and programme partners.
Training · University of Oxford research team and project interpreters / cultural mediators
Participatory Research Training with Sanctuary Seekers
Bespoke training helping an Oxford/Athens migration-health team translate participatory principles into roles, decisions and methods that work in practice.
Co-production · Lambeth Community Research Network: High Trees, IRMO, Stockwell Partnership and other LRCN partners
Community-Based Ethics Review for Lambeth
Co-designing a community-led ethics review pathway for research involving Lambeth communities outside conventional university systems.
Co-production · Doctors of the World / Room to Heal
Do You Hear Me? Anthology
A creative anthology made with people seeking sanctuary in response to the racist violence and riots of summer 2024.
Co-production · Doctors of the World UK
It’s Okay Not to Be Okay: A Wellbeing Guide for Migrants
A wellbeing guide rewritten with Doctors of the World National Health Advisors who brought lived experience of migration, the asylum system and accessing healthcare.
Facilitation · gallery@oxo / Wellcome
Iranian Diaspora Unity Exhibition
Community engagement consultancy on approach, workshop structure, safeguarding and dissemination, contributing to an exhibition at gallery@oxo and a Wellcome Trust fellowship.
Co-production · Iranian Association
Peer Support Group Guide for Iranian Diaspora
Designing and piloting a peer support group guide with the Iranian Disability Association, Iranian Association and Farsaphone Counselling Service.
Facilitation · King's College London
Mentoring Research Leadership on Stigma, Power and Intersectionality
Team and one-to-one mentoring helping a senior research lead translate commitments to reflexivity, intersectionality and power into everyday practice.
Evaluation · Lambeth PAC
Supporting Violence-Affected Youth
Embedded participatory research with the Lambeth Peer Action Collective at High Tress Community Trust, engaging over 300 young people in Brixton as researchers of their own experience.
Co-production · Paiwand / ESRC
Mental Health Guide for Afghan Sanctuary Seekers
ESRC-funded research bringing together academic evidence and Afghan community knowledge into a practical guide now used in NHS Trusts across England and Wales.
Co-production · King’s College London, Survivor Alliance, Helen Bamber Foundation, University of East London and University of Nottingham; funded by the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre / AHRC
Modern Slavery Core Outcome Set
Survivor-driven research defining the minimum outcomes that should be measured when evaluating support for survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking.
Research · ESRC-funded research at King’s College London with Iranian and Afghan sanctuary-seeking communities and organisations
The Asylum Process and Mental Health
Long-term qualitative and participatory research examining how asylum policy, institutions and everyday life shape mental health and coping.
Facilitation · Story Compound
Asylum Queens
Writers’ room consultancy helping a television drama represent the asylum system, migration and mental health with greater depth and accuracy.
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