Mobilities, Minds & Health: New frontiers in researching health in migrants

Schedule

Fri Mar 13 2026 at 09:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

University of Essex | Colchester, EN

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A powerful plenary and full-day conference exploring migrant health, mental wellbeing, participatory methods and transformative action.
About this Event

Mobilities, Minds & Health is a scientific gathering on migrant and displaced communities’ health and wellbeing, bringing together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and community actors. The event opens with a plenary dialogue on 12 March 2026 (2–5pm), followed by a full-day conference on 13 March 2026 featuring thematic sessions on equity in migration studies, participatory and creative research methods, decolonial and adaptive approaches, mental health and wellbeing, and evidence-to-policy translation in contexts of precarity and mobility.

Conference themes include:

  • Advancing equity in migration studies — determinants of migrant health, intersectionality, gender, disability, class, race and social inequalities.
  • Inclusive, decolonial & adaptive methodologies — ethical, linguistic and contextual research adaptations, creative methods and decolonising approaches.
  • Participatory & co-creative methods for transformative action — community-led, arts-based and co-produced interventions and capacity-building.
  • Theoretical & conceptual advancements in migration health — new frameworks on precarity, wellbeing, care pathways and socio-political contexts.
  • New knowledge on migrants’ health & social/ecological determinants — mental health, violence, trauma, resilience and wellbeing experiences.
  • Policy translation & practice transformation — reviews, policy appraisals and using evidence to inform practice and decision-making.

Abstracts accepted until 15th of January 2026, here: https://forms.gle/A6QfgsEEH7rYCdMp9

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University of Essex, NTC.1.05, Colchester, United Kingdom

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