Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing

This panel discussion brings together voices from journalism, visual arts, photography, and social research to explore the intersections of migration, creative practice, and wellbeing.

Speakers will respond to shared questions around displacement, belonging, and community resilience, drawing on diverse methodologies including ethnography, co-creative workshops, visual storytelling, and collaborative making.

Speakers include:

• Ismail Einashe – Journalist and author of Strangers (Tate Publishing), Knight-Wallace Fellow, University of Michigan
• Manal Massalha – Sociologist, visual ethnographer, and photographer
• Christie Swallow – Artist, exploring ecology and queer landscapes
• Jessie Sullivan – PhD researcher at UCL’s Institute of Education, specialising in arts-based methods and refugee belonging in Amman

Organised by the Migration, Citizenship and Social Justice group at the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU)and the UCL Health of the Public Creative Health Community.

This public event is open to all.

Feature image: Christie Swallow - .

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, United Kingdom

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