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By Eglė Dagilytė The project’s Ipswich team were invited to exhibit some of the artwork from the community forum creative workshops produced by our research participant. The artwork was part of The ICONS exhibition that ran during 16 November – 3 December 2025, organised by the Ipswich Romanian Community (IRC) and hosted at The HIVE, […]

By Noor Omar, Noor Amjad, and Tegan Smith (4th year medical students)   ARU medical students: “It was a great learning experience to contribute to the MigRefHealth project as part of our degree placement”   At ARU, to facilitate the synergy between healthcare, innovation and entrepreneurship, in the fourth year of their medical degree students

The MigRefHealth team have just completed standardised stakeholder engagement events across all 12 fieldsites. Findings from walking interviews and focus groups held with community participants in each locality were presented to a diverse range of statutory groups and civil society stakeholders (124 in total), who were also able to view emergent findings and preliminary iterations

March 2025 has seen the community forums change from a focus group/world café-style event to using creative methods. Funded by AHRC, creative methods form a valuable and critical part of our project research. Our first, was working with a multi-lingual storyteller/performer called Sef Townsend, who utilises language commonalities and cross-cultural narrative similarities to draw out

Working in twelve fieldsites across North London, South London and the East of England, in collaboration with refugee/asylum-seeker and migrant support agencies and wider stakeholders, we have set up Community Forums in each location, in which refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant participants explore service design, provision and accessibility.  From Sept 2024 Community Co-Researchers have been

In October and November 2024 our UKRI/AHRC ‘Collaborative Community Research to Tackle Health Inequalities’ funded project held multiple launch events. Stakeholders from local government, ICBs, NGOs and community members local to our 12 fieldsites in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, North London and South London were invited to find out about our plans and how they