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We are launching the Psych-AID Network that will adapt best-practice interviewing and decision-making methods to the asylum context and train European asylum officials.

Read exciting new research from doctoral student Jenny Skrifvars and colleagues Jan Antfolk & julia korkman, in collaboration with Maahanmuuttovirasto. Together they developed and evaluated a training programme in Legal Psychology for Finnish Asylum Officials! Thread below!

1/ Read the fantastic work of doctoral student Jenny Skrifvars and colleagues within our network Jan Antfolk, julia korkman, & Tanja van Veldhuizen, as they discuss eliciting information in Finnish asylum interviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100… Thread below!

Read the amazing work from doctoral student Jenny Skrifvars and colleagues within our network Jan Antfolk, julia korkman and Tanja van Veldhuizen, as they discuss assumptions underlying credibility assessments. Read the full article here- tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108… Thread below!

Last week our network went camping in Teijo National Park, Finland. What a lovely way to spend a few days team building and welcoming our new team members! Jan Antfolk, Hedayat Selim 🍉, Jenny Skrifvars, Obed Kwame Appiah, Anna Ilmoni, Rasmus Ahlgren, & Malin Ekelund!

NEW PREPRINT ALERT! 1/ Previous research has identified shortcomings in asylum interviews, however, few studies have explored how the interview participants perceive the interviews. Read full text here - osf.io/preprints/osf/…

1/ Doctoral researchers Hedayat Selim 🍉 & Jenny Skrifvars, alongside Prof Jan Antfolk & julia korkman contributed to a commentary on culture, memory & interviewing – exploring challenges for research and practice, led by Lorraine Hope. Read article here - bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Yesterday our wonderful colleague Jenny Skrifvars successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on asylum interviewing and decisionmaking practices in Finland. What a moment of pride for those of us who have had the pleasure of closely following her PhD journey!

Hedayat Selim 🍉 presenting her stellar work on Credibility Assessment of Asylum Claims based on Religion at the conference Religion as a Ground for International Protection organized by the project Migration and Religion in International Law at Luiss University in Rome.

Read new manuscript by our fantastic doctoral researcher Hedayat Selim 🍉 here!

We are excited to launch our Network website! Check out our site for more information on our project, team, publications, and events! Find the site here - sites.abo.fi/psych-aid/

You can now find us over on BlueSky. Come follow us! bsky.app/profile/psycha…

We officially launched our Psych-AID Network last Friday. Thank you to all of our speakers Maahanmuuttovirasto, Ferdinand Garoff, @sara_landstrom, Jan Antfolk, julia korkman, Jenny Skrifvars, Hedayat Selim 🍉 , Rasmus Ahlgren, Obed Kwame Appiah, and Malin Ekelund.

Interested in a post doc fellowship investigating interviewing & decision making in the asylum context? We would be pleased to sponsor applications to the ERC MSCA Post Doc Fellowship 2025 from researchers interested in staying with our team at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

NEW PRE PRINT ALERT! Doctoral researcher Hedayat Selim 🍉 and Psych-AID colleagues have conducted research on reasons reported by applicants for late disclosures of sexual orientation and consequences on the asylum decision. Read full pre-print here - osf.io/preprints/psya…

Our PI Jan Antfolk presented research today at #APLS2025 on questions asked in official asylum interviews with sexual minorities. Findings show low use of open questions and reliance on western narratives of sexuality. Further research and training is needed!

Our post doc researcher Jenny Skrifvars presented today at #APLS2025 on developing & evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials. They found that officials' knowledge of best practice questioning improved post training & at 5 month follow up.

The 2024 annual report of Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi / The Åbo Akademi Foundation has been published! Among the highlights featured is our very own Centre of Excellence, Psych-AID , led by PI Jan Antfolk. Read it below here (available in Swedish)! arsberattelse.stiftelsenabo.fi

We are very excited to introduce you to our fab research team! Jenny Skrifvars is a postdoc researcher within Psych-AID, whose research focuses on adapting interviewing techniques to the asylum context. Reach out to us with questions about Jenny's research or for collaborations!

📢 New pre-print alert! In their new manuscript, Jan Antfolk, Laura Stevens, Emilia Lundsten, Jenny Skrifvars & Hedayat Selim 🍉 use data from 255 respondents to investigate how personal immigration attitudes, gender, and age shape beliefs about asylum decisions. Link below!