GRABS participation in conferences, symposia, seminars and other academic events and talks
GRABS researcher Aron Tesfai participated in a high level policy dialogue on Migration, Urbanisation and People’s Health hosted by Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa on 29 October 2026. Aron presented some of the findings from the GRABS project in South Africa in a presentation entitled Everyday Bordering as a Structural and Psychosocial Determinant of Health…
On June 10th 2026, GRABS PhD candidate Jessi presented preliminary findings from her research trip to Toronto as part of her visiting fellowship at the Global Migration Institute (GMI). The panel offered an opportunity to introduce the GRABS project and its participatory methodologies as well as share early insights into the experiences of young people…
On June 11, 2026, the GRABS team were invited to present their research by the IRD–CNRS–CIRAD joint office in Southern Africa and the Future Africa campus at the University of Pretoria. Jane Freedman, Glenda Santana de Andrade and Aron Tesfai gave a presentation entitled The Architecture of ‘Stoppedness’. Focused on participatory research methods and the dynamics…
This work could not be done without the generous and courageous participation of all the young people that joined the various research activities and the amazing support of our community-based and local academic partners in K’jipuktuk-Halifax (Halifax Refugee Clinic, the YMCA Centre for Immigrant Programmes Youth Outreach team of Greater Halifax and Dartmouth, and Saint…
Workshop at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 20 May 2026 The GRABS team was invited to participate in a day long workshop at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS), at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg We were delighted to engage with colleagues from the GEMMS and…
The GRABS team took part in the SOCIN Conference in Macerata, Italy (23–26 September 2025). We presented a paper entitled “Innovative Research with Young People on the Move: Challenging Coloniality and Extractivism in Knowledge Production.”
On 2nd July, the GRABS team hosted an online panel part of the 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference Decentering migration studies, organised by the Institute Convergences Migrations, at Paris-Aubervilliers, France. Our panel Growing Up Across Borders: Experience of Young People in Forced Migration was chaired by Jane, and the three papers presented included: Discussing the use…
On 20th of June, Jessi took part in the PhD Conference ‘Reimagining Migration: Decolonisation and Identity Across Time and Space’, organised by the Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield, UK. Jessi contributed to the panel on Temporalities and Geographies with a presentation entitled ‘Temporality and Geographies’ with a presentation titled Temporality and Borders:…
On 20 May 2025, Izzy and Jane from the GRABS team presented our project to the Asylum and Refugee Research Group at the University of Manchester. The presentation was followed by a discussion and questions. We were delighted to engage with other researchers working on similar topics and exchange about our research in progress. Thanks…
Maureen Freed, a UPCA and UKCP-accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with a particular focus on trauma, delivered an insightful session on Vicarious Trauma.
