Study name: Developing a 'Community of Practice' to address the employment, healthcare and immigration-related needs of women migrant domestic workers in the UK
Research project lead: Dr Lilian Miles
Project length: Submitted to ESRC February 2022
Project overview
The aim of this study is to critically assess how (i) employment, (ii) healthcare and (iii) immigration-related needs of women migrant domestic workers (WMDWs) in London can be supported by a 'community of practice' (CoP), spaces where individuals and organisations with a common interest share and create new knowledge and advance a domain of practice.
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Study name: Asylum seek decision making
Project length: March 2022–October 2022
Project overview
A research project that seeks to understand the factors influencing asylum seeker behaviour and decision-making in their journeys to the UK. The project includes an evidence review, key stakeholder interviews, and the selection and application of a model of behavioural insight to provide concrete asylum policy and practice recommendations.
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Study name: Improving local government resettlement planning to support the social integration of Syrian refugees in London
Project length: March 2022–July 2022
Project overview
A research project which explores the social integration of Syrian refugees, twenty thousand of whom were offered safety in the UK under its 2015 Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS). We investigate the role of local community groups in resettling the refugees, especially women refugees, whose resettlement experience has so far been under-researched. We consider ways in which government resettlement planning can be improved for them.
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Study name: Piloting health interventions to advance the sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia
Project length: April 2020–October 2021
Project overview
A research project which explored the effectiveness of three interventions (education, mobile health clinic and referral services) to address factory women migrant workers’ reproductive health needs in Malaysia.
Research team
- Dr Lilian Miles (UK PI)
- Dr Noraida Endut (Malaysian PI)
Study name: The 'Inclusion' challenge: UK social integration of low-skilled and low-waged migrant workers during the pandemic
Project length: August 2020–July 2021
Project overview
A research project which explored how policy making in the UK can be made more inclusive to address the welfare needs of low-waged migrant workers in the UK during the pandemic.
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Study name: SDG#5 Access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and violence against women migrant workers services (VAWMV) in Malaysia
Project length: June 2019–August 2019
Project overview
A research project which explored how women migrant workers’ reproductive health needs in Malaysia can be addressed and how gender-based violence against them can be prevented. We drew on the insights and views of government, business, academics, local and international NGOs and unions in writing a Strategy Paper for the funder, which was circulated to the government to inform the drafting of the country’s twelfth national development plan (2021-2025).