News and Publications
Find our publications and results of the project. Here you can read about news, scientific publications, policy recommendations, manuals, and reports.
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European stakeholders’ meeting
RWS works in close collaboration with many stakeholders in mental health, migration and education on a national and European level. Meeting with the RWS stakeholders, discussing ideas together and building on feedback received from the stakeholders have been an integral part of the RWS project. As the project entered a new phase after analysing some […]
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National stakeholder meeting in Norway
Stakeholder meetings are an important part of the RefugeesWellSchool project. The Norwegian team held their national stakeholder meeting in October 2021. Members of the national stakeholder committee in Norway represent students with a migration background and different actors of the educational system: teachers, principals, the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training and the Directorate for […]
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RefugeesWellSchool webinar and workshops
RefugeesWellSchool Webinar & Workshops 21 March 2022 Interventions to promote the well-being of migrant and refugee adolescents in schools The project An EU Horizon 2020 research project, RefugeesWellSchool (RWS) implemented and evaluated preventive psychosocial interventions in schools in order to promote the well-being of migrant and refugee adolescents. The project took place in Belgium, Denmark, […]
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RWS findings at conferences and research seminars!
RWS researchers kept on being presenting interesting findings to the public and scientific community in conferences, seminars and other scientific meetings. Throughout many fantastic appearances, they provided an overview of the projects, talked about important research results, and shared their reflections on research design and methodology. Ilse Derluyn (UGent, Belgium) introduced the project […]
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RWS Belgium goes back to school!
Relationships with schools are very important to us. RWS have been closely collaborating with many great schools prior, during, and after the implementation of the interventions. Now that schools have become open again, it is crucial for us to keep participating schools updated about the preliminary findings of the RWS study. The Belgian team organised […]
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Interesting RWS related BA-MA theses in Finland!
Several Bachelor- and Master theses, utilizing Finnish RWS data, are underway, and students were happy to present their work in semniars. RWS researchers are happy to see the interesting findings Marleena Piikkilä: PTSD symptoms and social relations in adolescence – Associations among native Finns and newcomers Lassi Kallio & Sanna Kleemola: Associations between maternal and […]
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RWS teams busy at conferences – List of presentations
The RWS teams have been busy going around in the virtual world and talk to researchers and professionals about our school-based interventions. Find here the full list of our presentations. If you find them interesting and want to know more, drop us an email on [email protected] ! Peltonen, K. (2020): Pakolaislasten ja -nuorten mielenterveys. The […]
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The Finnish team discusses sense of security, trauma, crisis and disaster
Finnish RWS researchers, Raija-Leena Punamäki and Kirsi Peltonen participated in the 2nd International Symposium on Safety and Security Research, on 10th September 2020. Researchers from different fields of psychology in Finland got together on Zoom to discuss this year’s topic, Global Disruptions and Everyday Experiences. Raija-Leena and Kirsi talked about the RWS psychosocial interventions, and how […]
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UK team presents findings on migration and wellbeing
The UK team has been busy spreading the word of RefugeesWellSchool and telling the public about preliminary findings. In July 2019, RWS UK researcher Emma Soye presented her doctoral research as part of a symposium on migration and wellbeing at the Centre for Innovation and Research in Wellbeing (CIRW), University of Sussex. The symposium was […]
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Belgian team presents the RWS school-based interventions
An Verelst and Caroline Spaas presented RefugeesWellschool, the Belgian RWS implementation and some preliminary results from the Belgian research during a conference on mental healthcare needs of unaccompanied refugee minors (UMs), organized by the Belgian Platform Kinderen op de Vlucht/Mineurs en Exil and UNHCR. An introduced our RefugeesWellSchool research framework, and talked about the potential role […]
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Successful RWS master thesis in Denmark
Last month, Finja Birthe Dähne, a Global Health Graduate from the RefugeesWellSchool research team at University of Copenhagen, presented her thesis research to a group of researchers from MESU, the Danish Research Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Health. After presenting an overview of her research and the results of a qualitative evaluation of the Classroom […]