~ THANK YOU MIGRANT ESSENTIAL WORKERS ~
Our traveling exhibition is coming to Scotland! Come join us at the launch on 27 October 2022 at Art27 in Edinburgh. See the artwork and speak to the artists, the curator (Centrala), and the researchers! 6-8pm, 40-42 West Crosscauseway, Newington, EH8 9JP. More information here. The exhibition will be open to the public between 24 October and 8 November 2022. Do pop in if you can!
Save the date! Our event on public and third-sector service provision for Scotland’s migrant and minority ethnic communities during Covid-19 is taking place 10am-1pm on 25 October 2022 at the COSLA Conference Centre in Edinburgh. The aim of the event is to discuss findings and policy implications from our expert review carried out for the Scottish Government Coronavirus (COVID-19): Learning and Evaluation Oversight Group. The event is free, but registration is required due to the limited number of places. For more details and to register, please check out our Eventbrite page HERE. We hope to see you there!
Our traveling exhibition is coming to London! Come join us at the launch on 30 September 2022 at the Clapham Library. See the artwork and speak to the artists, the curator (Centrala), and the researchers! 6-8pm, Mary Seacole Centre, 91 Clapham High Street, SW4 7DB. More information here. The exhibition will be available until 14 Oct 2022 during the Library’s regular opening times. Do pop in!
Learn about our research! Our second dissemination event is taking place 4-5:30pm on 30 September 2022 at the Clapham Library in London. The aim of the event is to share our key findings and policy recommendations. The event is free, but registration is required due to the limited number of places. For more details and to register, please check out our Eventbrite page HERE. We hope to see you there!
Save the date! Spaces of (dis)connection: Migrant essential workers, a traveling exhibition inspired by our study is coming to Birmingham, London, and Scotland! The exhibition is a result of an exciting collaboration with Centrala, an internationally renowned centre for Central and Eastern European art and artists. It features the work of 3 well-established visual artists of Polish origin: Małgorzata Dawidek, Sylwia Kowalczyk and Paulina Korobkiewicz.
The artists will each present original artwork inspired by the stories of our research participants: Polish essential workers in the UK. The exhibition will kick off with an official launch in Birmingham and London (all welcome, do come along!) and will remain publicly available in each city. It will then travel to Scotland. Once it completes its journey, it will be digitised and moved online for all interested viewers.
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Hot off the press! We are thrilled to share two sets of policy recommendations targeting the UK and Scottish governments and respective health authorities. We wish to thank Prof. Robert Gawłowski, our project partners, and other public and voluntary sector organisations for helping out in their development. We are officially launching the UK recommendations at our first dissemination event on 17 May 2022, and the Scottish ones at a briefing session at the Scottish Parliament on 19 May 2022. Please, share them widely!
Save the date! Our first dissemination event is taking place 10am-2pm on 17 May 2022 at the COSLA Conference Centre in Edinburgh. The aim of the event is to discuss our key findings and policy recommendations. The event is free, but registration is required due to the limited number of places. For more details and to register, please check out our Eventbrite page HERE. We hope to see you there!
Our recent talk on using Facebook Ads for research is available on YouTube! The talk was delivered on 7 April 2022 as part of an excellent seminar series ‘Facebook as a research tool’ organised by Prof. Anja Neundorf and Dr Aykut Öztürk at the University of Glasgow. In the talk, we reflect on how we used Facebook Ads to recruit respondents for our online survey with Polish essential workers in the UK. With thanks to Anja and Aykut for organising this!
Fantastic news! We have secured approx. £30K from the Scottish Government research grant scheme for a new spin-off project exploring the needs of Scotland’s migrant and minority ethnic communities under Covid-19. The project that you can read about HERE, will support building a fairer Scotland by providing policymakers with expertise about the service provision needs of migrant and minority ethnic populations in COVID-19 recovery and future crisis planning. It is led by our own Dr Paulina Trevena. Details to follow!
Excellent news! Our very own Dr Paulina Trevena was interviewed by BBC 1 Reporting Scotland on vaccine hesitancy among the Polish community in Scotland. The material was aired on 21 January 2022 at 6:30 pm. Drawing on our findings, Paulina focused on misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine among Polish migrants and how it could be tackled by reaching out to migrant communities in their first languages. Read more about addressing vaccine hesitancy among Poles in Scotland in our recent blog HERE. Find out more about vaccine intentions in our UK-wide sample HERE.