Today’s the first day of the Refugee-Led Research Festival! All this week we’ll host workshops, discussions, documentary screenings, and more - featuring RLRH colleagues and partners who are advancing refugee leadership in research & practice. #refugeeledresearch

Lol TikTok cured my twitter addiction.

New in World Development, Alexander Betts, Maria Flinder Stierna, Naohiko Omata & Olivier Sterck explore when and how contact between #refugees and host communities can improve social cohesion. bit.ly/3dAw6Ci

“They treat us like we are very low pond life”: precarious contracts and low wages are the norm for early-career academics at Oxford. Emma Irving met some of those struggling to make ends meet econ.st/3ZsZ5ub

Fully-funded PhD scholarship to work with me on Refugee Economies at UAntwerp. Please apply and share widely! (Deadline: 15 of May 2023, to start around the 1st of September 2023) uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacanc….

Peter Ahrens Danke! Erinnert mich gleich an mein regelmäßiges Oberstufen-Freistunden-Weizenbier in der Kleinen Heilen Welt („d‘Khaweh“).

Exciting step in the right direction! I hope the Kenyan gov'ment will recognise the need for refugee-led businesses to operate beyond the camps and for refugees to move and work freely!

Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry representative survey dlvr.it/StvQfY

Existing research on refugee mental health is heavily skewed towards refugees in high-income countries. This study aims to fill this gap by conducting a multi-country representative survey with refugees and host communities in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/26/1/e…

Read our latest in #AdultMentalHealth, which finds that #refugees in East-Africa—particularly those exposed to violence and extended exile periods—are disproportionately affected by #depression, which may also hinder their socioeconomic integration 👉 bit.ly/3smHSHs

New open-access paper🎉 in BMJ Mental Health! While 83% of the world's refugees are hosted in LMIC, most mental health studies focus on refugees in high-income countries. We conducted a representative survey of ~16,000 refugees and host populations in East Africa. We find...

🚨 Job opportunity! Join ODID as a Research Assistant 🚨 Provide research / administrative support and workshop organisation for a project with RefugeeStudiesCentre Deadline 4 October. Apply now! qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/resear… #ResearchJobs

Delighted to discuss my research with Shruti Rajagopalan on the podcast Ideas of India Mercatus Center! We spoke about my job market paper that shows how pessimistic beliefs about peers can reduce useful social interactions in slums in urban India. Listen to it here: bit.ly/vatsaljmp

This is Kakuma Refugee Camp, where most of the champs bossing the Basketball World were brought up. I recorded this video during the game; South Sudan’s FIRST GAME at the The Olympic Games against Puerto Rico. Motherland is proud.

Mental health day today! Time for a 🧵 on our research with refugees and hosts in camps & cities in East Africa (N=+16,000!). Findings summarized in the conversation & below. theconversation.com/refugees-in-ea… @IKEAFoundation ODID IOB - Institute of Development Policy The Conversation Africa Wellcome RefugeeStudiesCentre

Our new article in The Conversation (The Conversation Africa) summarizes our study on refugee mental health in East Africa and the knock-on effects on jobs, income, and overall health. bit.ly/3zRnq5C Written with @oliviersterck, @raphaelBBrink, and Maria Flinder Stierna! 🙌