This event is hosted by the centre for adult wellbeing within the Department of Social Work and Social Care.

Dr Tip introduces a multi-disciplinary and multi-method research project she is working on currently, looking into the integration of resettled refugees in the UK who arrived more than four years ago. The research interprets integration very broadly as a wide range of processes that help to facilitate life in a new place, including psychological well-being. Through focus groups, longitudinal questionnaires, and interviews, the research contributes to information on how the integration efforts of vulnerable people arriving in the UK can be supported.

Following the first data collection, questionnaires from 280 resettled refugees and 30 interviews were collected and analysed, resulting in an interesting view of the current level of integration of the refugees. Employment and well-being were found to be well below the average levels in the UK. Among other things, negative contact with British people and with people of the same cultural background seemed to be particularly damaging for well-being.
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This seminar can be joined remotely by logging on to: https://connectpro.sussex.ac.uk/cira_tip10nov14

A recording will be available retrospectively at: www.sussex.ac.uk/socialwork/seminarseries

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By: Heather Stanley
Last updated: Friday, 7 November 2014