Dr Lucy Williams is a freelance researcher and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Kent. She has been involved in community work and research with refugees and asylum seekers in the UK since 1998. Her current research is with refugees denied asylum facing enforced return to countries of origin. Her most recent work is with young people who arrived in Europe as unaccompanied children who are now reaching adulthood.
Lucy holds a PhD in Migration Studies from the University of Kent (2004) and has designed and taught modules at MA, BA and Certificate level promoting the health and social care of migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers. She has supervised PhD studies on mental wellbeing in refugee communities, on sex trafficking and on social work responses to migrant and refugee clients.
Lucy has carried out consultancy for the International Organisation for Migration, the UK Quality Care Commission and the South East Strategic Partnership for Migration as well as for voluntary organisations. She has published on interpreting services for refugees, on social networks and help seeking behaviour, domestic violence, cross-border marriage migration, on refugee youth and on the situation of former immigration detainees.
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