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
Founded the Stolen Tools journal and Migrant Connections Festival, convenes the Inspiring Ethics research group, and hosts the Qualitative Open Mic podcast. Researches migration and mental health using decolonial thinking; human trafficking and health; creative/participatory methods and ethics; and equitable knowledge production. Consulted on violence and youth, maternity experiences, supporting torture survivors, migration services, and community ethics review. He’s appeared 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