Enjoyed writing my first ever blog post reflecting upon using photo diaries as a research method with young people 📷 Looking forward to building on these ideas in my PhD project 'Sensing Wales' with EYST- Ethnic Minorities & Youth Support Team Wales and Swansea Geography 🌍🎨

Nice clear poster by Jami Abramson at the WISERD conference. Thinking more about community, Welshness and also putting into the frame of a rhizome

🧵: Following on from an internal training on ‘Photo Hacks’, provided by one of our team members Jami Abramson, six colleagues were challenged to capture a week through their eyes as an EYST worker. Check out the diversity of their work below! 📸🤩 #EYSTPhotoChallenge

Our Right to Education Project (R2E) Event Launch underway at the @Grange_Pavilion Such an important project to support YP’s rights in education so that they are protected. This project is aimed at ethnic minority YP to improve access to that right! ✊🏿 #RightToEducation #R2E

🚨 Our Next Forum Announcement 🚨 Racism in Education: where are we now? 📚⚖️Join us to hear how racism is being experienced in schools and what we can do to tackle it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Let's drive out racism from our schools ✊ 7 June, 10-11.30am Register here: bit.ly/3q74KK2

Enjoyed opticswansea exhibition 🗺️ which uses a refreshing and creative approach to think about climate change. 💭 The exhibition highlights memories, stories, fears and aspirations through comics, collages, and photos. 📍 Taliesin Arts Centre Swansea University 🗓️ Until 29th September

✉️We have written to the Welsh Government Education following concerns raised by EYST- Ethnic Minorities & Youth Support Team Wales about levels and impact of racist bullying in schools across Wales. 👉Read the letter from EYST- Ethnic Minorities & Youth Support Team Wales: business.senedd.wales/documents/s137… 👉Read our letter to Welsh Government Education: business.senedd.wales/documents/s138…

📢We have received a response from the Welsh Government Education to our letter regarding concerns about racist bullying in schools. Read the responses here: business.senedd.wales/documents/s140…

Time to grab a Monday morning ☕️ and check out our latest blog post ✍️ 💭Rohini Mitra reflects on her multiple, and often overlapping postionalities - and identities - during her first month of fieldwork with Rohingya Refugees in India. 🔗 imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/… 🧵⤵️

Compelling evidence shared by the Comisiynydd Plant | Children's Commissioner Wales team of racism in schools 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Clear appetite for change expressed by children, educators, and wider stakeholders. Time to "Take it Seriously" Welsh Government to tackle this daily reality for children in schools.

*22 days to go* ⏳ 📘Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces, a new International Political Sociology book, will be published on 31 May 2024 Routledge Books 🔗 bit.ly/3UCOM7f ✍️ Brings together 20 authors to highlight emerging ways of being political

Fantastic collection of pieces addressing positionality, inequalities, and access in migration research 🌍 Enjoyed working on this in a truly collaborative space IMISCOE PhD Network 🎉 Join us at the IMISCOE annual conference (online) to hear more 😊⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Thoroughly enjoyed co-presenting and co-organising this panel for PhD students IMISCOE annual conference 🤩 Keeping time is tricky when your fellow presenters are so interesting! 🤭 Thank you Khaoula Stiti Kafirana, PhD & Mimi 🙏 and attendees for such wonderful questions 💫

🚨New #PhDBlog: Check out February’s blog entry by Jami Abramson: Sensing Migration: Walking Conversations with Young, Racialised Women in Swansea, Wales. 🚶🏾‍♀️🌍 📖imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/… #Migration #SenseOfPlace #WalkingMethods