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Thanks to supervisors Jenny McMahon 🌻 & Anca Minescu, PhD for their unwavering support on this project! Thanks to our incredible enterprise partner Narrative 4 Ireland, as well as Limerick CYPSC Doras Health Research Institute PPI Ignite UL UL Psychology 🙏 Co-funded by Narrative 4 Ireland & We are now Research Ireland

Delighted to be playing a small role in this work as part of the Project Advisory Group. Those young women on the YAP were so eloquent and passionate when we met them last week. The future is bright!

CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨We are looking for published/in-print papers/reports (quant & qual) on school #interventions or #programs that aim to promote #wellbeing in adolescent migrants (particularly girls) to be considered for inclusion in a scoping review. Please contact Jade Gill🌻

#YouthVoice 🗣️ was central as members of our #YouthAdvisoryPanel contributed to study materials & co-facilitated school workshops with over 50 girls from migrant backgrounds🤝 Workshops included: - Story Exchange activities 📖🌍 - Scaffolded brainstorming🧠 Ketso

Ketso 🔎Participants discussed: - What wellbeing means for migrant girls in Irish post-primary schools🧠 - Barriers & facilitators to achieving wellbeing in school💭 - How Narrative 4 Ireland Story Exchange can be used to foster belonging & wellbeing for migrant students in school 📖🗣️

Ketso Narrative 4 Ireland Thanks to School of Nursing and Midwifery, UL, Irish World Academy, Participatory Health Research Unit UL School of Medicine & Doras for organising such an impactful day 🌟 Thanks as always Limerick CYPSC Doras Narrative 4 Ireland for supporting this project!🙏 Health Research Institute #WhyWeDoResearch UL Psychology UL Research

The YAP shared insights from workshops facilitated across the country with over 50 adolescent migrant girls. The workshops explored: - Places of belonging & school integration - Barriers & facilitators of school wellbeing - How N4’s Story Exchange fosters wellbeing & inclusion

Our YAP members were exceptional, demonstrating the power of #youth-led engagement in research. This marked another milestone in our collaborative journey to promote wellbeing for migrant adolescent girls in schools. 🏫 🤝 Thanks as always to our expert key stakeholders!🙏

Really enjoyed presenting my research yesterday at the Refugee & Migrant Health Networking & Knowledge Exchange Seminar!📣

The most amazing group of girls! I could have only dreamed of being so hard-working, committed, and well-spoken at their age!🤩

Great to have our research led by Jenny McMahon 🌻 in collaboration with Narrative 4 Ireland mentioned in todays Irish Independent ✨Jade Gill🌻

Great night out in #MelodyLimerick with SCY-Lab and SASHLab members University Of Limerick So wonderful to mark the end of the term and recognise all the hard work this term - they really are a super team ✨ 🙌🏻

The sky is the limit (literally) for these amazing young people! 🧗‍♀️🤩

📣🧠Make sure to stop by the TYF stand at the BT Young Scientist exhibition and try the #hangtoughchallenge and meet our lab members Anna McHale & Jade Gill🌻 🧐Anna’s research focuses on the use of Irish rugby players as role models for in the #TYFSchools programme!

📢Calling post-primary teachers in Ireland📢 We’re exploring teachers’ experiences of working w/ migrant students, especially girls, in the classroom🏫 💻1hr online interview 🕒Flexible scheduling 🔍Open to teachers of all subjects DM us/email [email protected] to take part 📩

🚨I’m looking to speak to post-primary teachers about experiences of working with students from migrant backgrounds! You don’t need to be working exclusively with migrant students (e.g., EAL teacher) to take part- all perspectives welcome🗣️ Please DM if interested; more info👇

📢SAVE THE DATE📢 Trauma & Adversity SIG March Event - Trauma Informed Approaches with Children: Insights from Foster Care With presentations from Dr Caroline Roe, Áine Ní Ghrada & colleagues, and Méabh Phelan When: Wednesday 5th March (7-9pm) Sign up information to follow!

Last week, we facilitated a Story Exchange as part of 'Birds of a Feather', a project bringing women from Ballinasloe, Belfast, Ennis and Inishbofin together through craft, stories, theatre and more! 🌟

Next, celebrating International Women's Day, we have Jade Gill. Jade's research explores social-emotional interventions to support the wellbeing of adolescent migrant girls, aiming to develop a scalable school-based narrative intervention. 🔗 Read more ul.ie/hri/jade-gill