CREMCYA Research

Staff and affiliates

Examples of current/recent research undertaken by Centre staff and affiliates include:

• Identifying best practice for empowerment through entrepreneurial freedom: A project for the marginalized in slum areas in Delhi, India (Dr Kathleen Fincham and Amy Smail, in collaboration with the University of Newcastle)
• Mapping of Refugee Access to the National Education System in North Africa - Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia (Dr Kathleen Fincham, funded by UNHCR)
• Syrian youths’ perceptions and experiences of higher education opportunities for refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey (Dr Kathleen Fincham, funded by the British Council/ UNHCR) 
• Troubling Muslim youth identities: nation, religion, gender - Lebanon, Pakistan, Senegal, Nigeria (Dr Kathleen Fincham, in collaboration with the University of Sussex) 
• How primary teachers construct citizenship in the city of Accra, Ghana and the role of African critical consciousness in decolonising citizenship and the nation-building process (Amy Smail)
• The role of education in peacebuilding: An analysis of the impact of teachers’ views and practices with regards to peace and conflict in Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya (Dr Line Kuppens) 
• Constructing an imagined path to peace during conflict:  A critical discourse analysis of human rights education in Gaza, Palestine (Dr Nancy Albhaisi)  
• Understanding the efficacy and potential of First Star Academy, St Mary’s (Dr Iole Cozzone, Dr Sumi Hollingworth, funded by Porticus) 
• Professional youth work as it is practiced in diverse forms in locations around the world (Dr Fin Cullen) 
• Gender-related violence within education and youth settings (Dr Fin Cullen) 
• How young people encounter and resist violent extremist or terrorist narratives (Dr Zin Derfoufi) 
• How people from ethnic minority communities are organising on urgent crime problems (Dr Zin Derfoufi) 
• Safeguarding people with mental health needs or learning differences during contact with the police (Dr Zin Derfoufi, funded by the Wellcome Trust) 
• Africa Post-Doctoral Scholar research project (Dr Chris Edwards-Leis, funded by Porticus) 
• Schooling experiences of Syrian child refugees in Turkey (Dr Özlem Erden) 
• Disability rights and social justice reforms in education policy and practice (Dr Anastasia Liasidou)