Key Research Projects
How should researchers work with migrants, migrant communities and migrant organisations?
ESRC-funded PhD using participatory action research and ethnography
The Modern Slavery Core Outcome Set (MSCOS)
A survivor‑driven, consensus‑based framework defining a minimum set of outcomes that should be reported in research, policy, and interventions supporting adult survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking
Related resources and content
Impact in Qualitative Research Blog
Ella Parry-Davies on co-researching outcomes for domestic workers after trafficking and exploitation
Dr Ella Parry-Davies is a lecturer at King’s College London, where she works on social justice-focussed research in collaboration with experts-by-experience, primarily in the migration and anti-trafficking sectors. Taking up performance as a co-creative research method, she has worked most extensively with migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon, and her book Intimate Inequalities: Performing Migrant Domestic Work is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in September 2025. In this blog post she discusses the findings of research on the outcomes for workers who had survived trafficking and returned to the Philippines as their country of origin.
The Qualitative Open Mic Podcast
Hyab Yohannes and Tesfalem Yemane on refugee-led scholarship
Why are there limited voices from sanctuary seekers in qualitative research about migrant health? Tesfalem Yemane and Hyab Yohannes bring a vital perspective on ‘refugee-led scholarship’, dissecting the challenges and significance of broadening the scholarly space to include those who have first-hand experience seeking sanctuary. They discuss how dominant political agendas and interests influence the kind of questions we’re able to ask around migration and mental health, as well as how we might be able to ask them.
