GRABS fieldwork research visits, activities, focus group discussions, creative participatory workshops, and resulting outputs from such work.

Photograph of workshop participants

Creative Workshops with Young People in South Africa 

In July and August 2025 two members of our team, Jane Freedman and Glenda Santana de Andrade travelled to eThekwini (Durban) South Africa. Working in collaboration with colleagues from the HEARD team at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Refugee Social Services (RSS), we organised participatory photography/photovoice and podcasting workshops with five groups of young people.…

Research Scoping Trip to Calais

Insights and Challenges at the UK-France Border This blog post shares some initial findings and reflections from our research scoping trip to Calais and Dunkerque at the end of January 2025. By Isabel Morrell At the end of January, our team embarked on a scoping trip to Calais and Dunkerque on the north coast of…

Online survey for young people on the move

We’re launching a survey to see what kinds of activities young people would like to be involved in. If you are concerned (young person on the move/young migrant aged 15-25) please reply. For others feel free to share in your networks Thank you https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgijVGRfQtfH2e-rQMwrcPbNBTOPRXaWLPet0RQnibVjTEJA/viewform?usp=headerhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgijVGRfQtfH2e-rQMwrcPbNBTOPRXaWLPet0RQnibVjTEJA/viewform?usp=header