Dr Ingi Iusmen: Associate Professor
Summary of the Project
This focuses on the age assessment process of unaccompanied migrant children conducted by the Home Office at point of entry into the UK and it aims to explore its impact on asylum-seeking minors’ mental health and their safeguarding risks associated with their being wrongly assessed as adults. The project’s main activities are a network building event focusing on the specific age assessment issues identified by from literature and interviews and co-designing a research project which is aligned with the needs of the stakeholders.
Advice for future applicants to the New Things Fund
Their project should focus on a timely issue that is both politically and policy-relevant and has the support of the main stakeholders in that area.
What you are most looking forward to from the funding?
I’m looking forward to building the stakeholder network and getting the support of some of the main politicians and policy-makers for our research project and its findings for the asylum community in the UK.
