Pleased to be part of a remarkable group of Fellows and share my journey alongside them at the NIHR SPHR Annual Scientific Meeting #ASMSPHR2023

Congratulations Dr. Debora Kayembe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, 54th Rector of The University of Edinburgh. It was an honour to attend your installation which marks historic change at the university. I was pleased to attend as a proud occasion for Congo and a continuing relationship with City of Sanctuary UK 🧡 @UniofSanctuary

Are you interested in #PublicHealth research? Applications for the #SPHR pre-doctoral and post-doctoral launching fellowships are now open. Closing date: 23rd October 2023

⚽️Wonderful to see that Newcastle United have shown their ongoing commitment to being a welcoming club for refugees. They are the first Football Club of Sanctuary! This will allow them to build on the power of sports to help people connect and integrate. 💙

Dr Denis Mukwege réagit au bombardement du camps des réfugiés à Goma : « Nous condamnons avec fermeté les attaques du M23/RDF lancées sur le camp de déplacés de #Mugunga à Goma ce vendredi 3 mai 2024 et exprimons nos condoléances aux familles des victimes et nos vœux de

#CongoIsBleeding

Loving the diversity of the topics covered at #ASMSPHR2024! All the talks have been incredible & so engaging. So inspiring in fact, that I’ve been creating some live drawings of the proceedings! (Pls note that I’m new to this!!)

Very deserving winner Daniel Mutanda who led the #SPHR Systems Thinking Webinar Series, watch all the webinars at: youtube.com/playlist?list=… #ASMSPHR2024

A great honour to receive two awards at the #ASMSPHR2024. Thank you NIHR SPHR for recognising my capacity building work on systems thinking and for a joint award for my lightning talk 🎉

A special moment 🤝 thank you!

I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote. Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else. Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.

Out with the old, in with the new☀️ As Keir Starmer becomes PM, our Chief Officer Sian gives her thoughts on how this government should change tack on how people seeking sanctuary are welcomed & supported in the UK. We want this gov to prioritise a fair new plan for refugees.

🚨New *funded* PhD scholarship on fossil fuels #CDoH in subsaharan Africa linked to our NIHR Global Research Group Grant @GHPUEdinburgh is live (deadline end of month!): miniurl.com/af7d68dl Funding is *only* available to students from LMICs by World Bank Classification

ITV News Meridian joined us on campus to interview 100-year-old Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis, and former history tutor, Dr Edgar Feuchtwanger, and to celebrate our new University of Sanctuary status. Look out for their report on today's bulletins! itv.com/news/meridian/…

I’m pleased to have contributed to (and learnt from) this new report. I brought reflections from my time working on research for a specialist NHS mental health service Research at Sussex Partnership NHS FT 💙 and from my current work on public engagement and involvement NIHR SPHR. Read and share!

In 2023 Hartpury University and Hartpury College were commissioned by Active Essex to mobilise Realist Ripple Effects Mapping within the context of Asset Based Community Development and Youth Justice. Here is our paper positioning the merging of REM with Realist Evaluation bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

THIS is what a movement for change looks like. This incredible lot are the Universities of Sanctuary network - a movement led by students, activists, lecturers & uni staff working together to create welcome & equal access in higher education for people seeking sanctuary. 🧵

This month, I co-led strategic workshops in Jordan with global leaders from the Tertiary Refugee Student Network and at the Universities of Sanctuary conference in York with people from across the UK. My memo for 2025: widening multi-level impact.