How I can help
I help charities, academic teams, policy institutions and international organisations design research that matters. Rigorous, creative, and rooted in lived experience. You can contact me on Sohail.Jannesari@gmail.com to discuss a project. I offer:
• Qualitative research (e.g., design, facilitation, analysis, write-up of focus groups/interviews)
• Facilitate participatory & survivor-led projects (where people with lived experience of an issue become co-researchers)
• Design creative workshops (e.g., using photovoice, collage and body mapping)
• Produce research ethics guidance for NGOs & community-led research
• Evaluation using co-produced indicators with charity members and people with lived experience
• Training on global health, decoloniality & qualitative methods
• Writing support for reports, grants & academic publications
• Mentoring on addressing inclusion, power, and intersectionality in the workplace
Testimonials
“I resonated with your presentation quite deeply, because I, in my everyday work, I try to embody research as resistance… Thank you so much, because I think this is one of the first times in a very long time where I have seen myself in academia reflected in my whole self… thank you for the hope as well, because now I see that, oh, I do have a place that I can belong to” – Attendee from a Knowledge Production workshop
““Thank you so much for that insightful and heartfelt presentation on the mental health of migrants, I really appreciate the depth and sensitivity you brought to such a complex topic” – Attendee from a talk I gave on Migration and Mental Health
“I’m just writing more and more right now. I really want to say thank you so much for following your heart, and you are definitely changing survivors lives like the growth and the confidence you’ve guys have given me to to do things in society, I feel more integrated as a survivor in society. So really, really, really, thank you” – Survivor Author in a Human Trafficking Paper
“Your seminars in particular have been amongst the few learning experiences I’ve had that have made me feel not only capable of doing research, but actually excited about the possibilities. I really appreciate the language you choose and the open, inclusive energy you offer. Just wanted to shout that out” – Participant in an Creative Methods Training
“Just wanted to say a huge thank-you for all your work pulling together the exhibition for yesterday, and your help on the day. We really couldn’t have done it without you… I thought it was a great success, and we’ve had such lovely feedback about it. We gave our Director a guided tour and she emailed me last night to say how moving she found it… So, we definitely succeeded in making people cry, but I’m sure many other positive reactions” – Team Member in a Photovoice Project
“Over the past three+ years of working with Mr. Jannesari, he has demonstrated that he is a person of many talents and an excellent multitasker. He is able to balance arduous bureaucracy and being an all round genuine and lovely guy. He is an expert in qualitative methods, having driven forward participatory innovations in the field of survivor research” – Survivor Researcher in a project on Human Trafficking
“Last night’s beautiful intimate and at times painful event was so special. Thank you for the incredible containing space you held for us. The creative writing at the end was very healing ❤️🩹 & being with some of you truly lovely people in person was a total treat. The poetry & stories throughout the evening were hard hitting & very moving” – Attendee at a Poetry Event on Racism in Health
“Thank you for executing this fantastic learning event, full of useful information, inspirational speakers, your humour to entertain us. I personally see this as the best ‘boot camp’ ever. All the best to you and your team” – Student at a Qualitative Summer School
“Thank you so much for being such a reliable and steady consultant for us. We are so pleased we got in touch” – Consultancy working with the UKHSA