Research

  • EC – FPV: Good practice in mental health and social care provisions for asylum seekers and refugees: A European partnership for progress.
  • Economic and Social Research Council - Identities and Social Action Programme: Identities in Transition: a longitudinal study of immigrant children.
  • European Commission Partners for Health Phase II: European study of the development of anti-discrimination measures in health care.
  • Migrant Helpline: Social care needs of migrants in the South East.
  • Refugee Council: Evaluation of a counselling project for asylum seekers.
  • Volkswagen Foundation: Cultural Capital during Migration: towards the relevance of education titles and residence permits for the status passage into the labour market.
  • Promising Researchers award (HEFCE), pilot work for two projects: ‘Integration experiences of Turkish speaking women living in London’ and ‘Older Refugees in Exile: Needs and Service Responses’.
  • Canterbury and District Pensioners’ Forum : Assessing the needs of older people in East Kent.
  • Women Support Services (WSS): Evaluation of support and counselling project for children affected by domestic violence.

The Centre has established a multidisciplinary research group on Migration & Social Care including researchers from The Netherlands, France and from other University of Kent departments.

Reports of research undertaken by MASC staff can be found under MASC Publications.