Breaking down barriers to research participation
The EELGA SMP is delighted to be involved with a new project funded through the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System | CPICS Website and involving Anglia Ruskin University, The British Red Cross and the Cambridge Refugee Resettlement campaign to better understand and break down barriers to participation in health research by a range of overseas nationals including refugees, asylum-seekers and Hong Kongers.
This project focuses on the two-way systemic barrier to research participation by these communities through their own knowledge and understanding as well as that of health and care professionals and researchers, along with experiential factors that potentially exacerbate this challenge.
This will include the typically limited understanding of professionals and researchers of the impact of (often) traumatic lived experiences on the populations; potential confusion over awareness of eligibility of the various populations to services (impacting research design/access); coupled with frequently limited ‘systems knowledge’, and potential fear of research participation arising from negative or traumatic prior experiences, e.g. torture or gross human rights breaches. We will seek to understand how individuals’ route to being granted asylum or refugee status, or other routes to settlement in the UK, may impact research participation.
The team will deliver co-produced recommendations to support researchers in obtaining meaningful participation from refugee and asylum-seeking populations, with a particular focus on co-production methods and upskilling these communities to support their personal agency and future opportunities.
To this end, the research team will undertake a series of workshops for the relevant communities and health professionals.
- Community Workshops
- Workshop 1 Peterborough – 6th December 2023 10am-1pm: Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, Bourges Blrd, Peterborough PE1 2AF.
Parking is very limited on site. Park at Waitrose or Queensgate car parks.
- Workshop 2 Cambridge – 11th January 2024 1pm-4pm: Friends Meeting House
- Workshop 3 Online – 1st February 2024 10am-1pm: Contact us for the link
- Health Professional / Researcher Workshops
- Workshop 1 Peterborough – 12th December 2023 10am-1pm: Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, Bourges Blrd, Peterborough PE1 2AF.
Parking is very limited on site. Park at Waitrose or Queensgate car parks.
- Workshop 2 Cambridge 16th January 2024 10am-1pm: ARU, Compass House, 80 Newmarket Road, Cambridge CB5 8DZ
Parking is available at the Grafton Centre car parks. Public transport recommended - Workshop 3 Online – 30th January 2024 10am-1pm: Contact us for the link
Full day, in-person stakeholder meeting to develop recommendations for action:
29th February 2024
Allia Future Business Centre Peterborough, London Road, Peterborough, PE2 8AN
Parking is available on site
If you are interested in participating in this project please contact:
Farsh Raoufi
999farsh@gmail.com
07808 203 551
Or
Gill Searl, Project Manager, SMP EELGA
07790 973101