CON-FRONT
RefugeesWellSchool was invited by CON-FRONT to present its work to promote the psychosocial well-being of young refugees and migrants across the EU.
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Research note: Discussing recruitment strategies of randomised control trials in Sweden
RWS applied a randomised control design in implementing its five interventions. In this research note, the Swedish team discusses the challenges of recruitment at the school level to mental health interventions targetting refugee youth in school contexts in Sweden.* Read the article here. *This description is based on Warner, G., Osman, F., McDiarmid, S., & […]
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Research article: Study protocol of RWS trial in Sweden (INSETT+TRT)
RWS implements five interventions that aim to promote mental health among migrant and refugee youth in school settings. One of the interventions is a combination of two programmes: Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT) that is implemented with adolescents, and In-service Teacher Training (INSETT), addressing teachers to equip them with knowledge and skills for supporting refugee youth […]
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Research article: COVID-19 school closures and how teachers care for migrant and refugee youth in Denmark
COVID-19 presented with major challenges in education as schools were closed and interrupted practices in the classroom. RWS researchers set out to understand the challenges teachers faced during school closures when trying to stay in contact and support migrant and refugee learners. Teachers experienced many difficulties due to barriers learners faced with language and accessing […]
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Research article: Teachers’ caring practices for migrant and refugee youth in Denmark
The Danish team was interested in knowing how teachers’ care for their refugee and migrant learners at school. They found that teachers in their study made remarkable efforts to care, not only related to language teaching-learning. However, these teachers also often felt less prepared to respond to the complex psychosocial needs of migrant and refugee […]
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Research article: on the role of time and space in migrant and refugee adolescents’ caring practices at Danish schools
The Danish team explored newcomer refugee and immigrant adolescents’ caring practices in two classrooms for newcomers in Danish schools. The team found that time and space were important elements in shaping newcomers’ caring practices. RWS Denmark puts forward a novel conceptual approach to understanding school-based support for newcomer youth, and argues that newcomers’ wellbeing must […]
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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 […]
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RWS stakeholders meeting in Sweden
Collaborating with stakeholders is a key principle of RWS project. The Swedish group held their national stakeholder meeting in October 2020. The team presented and discussed the preliminary results of qualitative investigation in the project, the current state of the interventions and future plans with the stakeholders.