Research project

Impacts of Age Assessment for Child Refugees’ Asylum Pathways and Mental Health

Project overview

The project will help us gather crucial information about the situation on the ground (faced by child refugees undergoing age assessment), the existing research gaps and how they can be filled, and how the scientific research can address the needs of practitioners and professionals helping age disputed child refugees. We intend to engage with Home Office officials conducting visual age assessments in Kent to find out about the challenges they face, the training they receive in this area and above all, learning from them how research can help their work. Charities, such as the Refugee Council, Young Roots, Helen Bamber Foundation, would learn about how research can contribute towards their work and address key gaps in practice, regarding access to safeguarding and justice for instance.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Ingi Iusmen

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • children's rights
  • child migration
  • public policy
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Other researchers

Professor Jana Kreppner

Professor

Research interests

  • Jana's work focusses on the impact of early experience on development. She is particularly interested in the role of relationship experiences, especially caregiver-child and peer/friend relationships, in typical and atypical development. Jana studies factors that influence relationship experiences as well as the effects and correlates of such relationship experiences on children’s development. Jana uses this knowledge to inform the development of relationship-based interventions to promote children and young people’s wellbeing. Her research has been funded by the ESRC, NIHR, the Waterloo Foundation and the Welcome Trust. Jana's research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods. She has extensive experience conducting longitudinal research across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Jana is currently involved in a range of interdisciplinary collaborations which span Psychiatry, Paediatric Neurology, Psychology, Education, Social Work, Public Policy, and Law.
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Research outputs