THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2024
On 6 November 2024, our project’s poster was showcased at the AHRC-funded Research Showcase held at Parkinson Court, University of Leeds. During the event, project lead Marie-Andrée Jacob also participated in a sharing practice session with the executive chair of AHRC and University research leaders.
WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2024
Making it to the Registers project team held an interactive talk Carers on the Move as part of the Intercultured Festival 2024 in Bradford. The event featured a conversation between the public, practitioners, and researchers including first-hand testimonies from the practitioners, Q&A, and a dip into history.
Guest speakers Nelson Enah (nurse) and Dr Alicia Vedio were joined by the project team members Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, Nasreen Ali, Rukia Saleem, Britzer Paul Vincent Paul Raj, and Amrita Limbu.
The event was held at the Millside Centre, Bradford on 24th October 2024 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.
FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2024
On 17th October 2024, Amrita Limbu presented a paper at the PSA Conference on Witness to Harm held at the Abbey Centre in London. The Conference hosted by Professional Standards Authority was attended by different regulators related to the healthcare sector, academics and researchers, and other individuals and organisations interested in improving regulation and registration for patient safety and public protection through research.
Amrita presented the paper ‘Fitness to Practise: Implications for Migrant Healthcare Professionals’ Safety in the UK‘.
MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, and Amrita Limbu have been awarded £11,340 by the Global Impact Acceleration Awards (GIAA) for the project ‘Making it to the Registers: Using Visual Representations to Tell Stories of Migrant Healthcare Workers’.
The Making it to the Registers team collaborates with Petroglyph Studios, a Canadian comics creation studio, to create a graphic novel, poster, and booklet to share findings from the project in accessible formats. The project also has the support of two project partners BAPIO (British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin) and ReSTORE.
BAPIO has 25 years of experience campaigning, lobbying and litigating on behalf of overseas-trained doctors and nurses from South Asia, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.
Founded in 2022, ReSTORE trains refugee nurses to pass English language and clinical skills tests and supports them to navigate cultural and institutional differences between their own country of registration and the UK nursing profession.
FRIDAY 5 JULY 2024
On 3rd July 2024, Marie-Andrée Jacob and Priyasha Saksena presented at the 26th British Legal History Conference. The conference was organised by Professor Gwen Seabourne and Dr Joanna McCunn and hosted by the University of Bristol Law School from 3 to 6 July on the theme of ‘Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law’.
Marie and Priyasha presented the paper ‘Beyond Registration: Medical Refugees, Professional Organizations, and British Immigration Policy, 1932-1940‘.
FRIDAY 5 JULY 2024
On 3rd July, Amrita Limbu presented a paper at the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference Migration as a Social Construction A Reflexive Turn. The Conference was hosted by Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon from 2 to 5 July in Lisbon and Online.
Amrita presented the paper ‘Gender, Migration, and Registration: Migrant Professionals in Medicine in the UK‘ at the panel ‘Migration and the Labour Market‘.
FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2024
On 19th June 2024, the Making it to the Registers project team Priyasha Saksena, Marie-Andrée Jacob, and Amrita Limbu presented at the Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law workshop organised by Dr Beverley Clough and Dr Anna Nelson. The workshop was attended by over 20 participants whose work bordered on the boundaries of medical law and was hosted by the Manchester Metropolitan University.
The team discussed the paper ‘The Migrant Healthcare Worker: Documenting Professional Expertise in the UK‘ in the session on Actors.
FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2024
Making it to the Registers project team Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, Nasreen Ali, Amrita Limbu, and Rukia Saleem along with Emma Matthews and Blerta ILAZI Ilazi from our project partner organisation ReSTORE, Nelson Enah (nurse), Dr Manou Sundararaj, Irfan Ahmad (nurse), and Richie Chacko (nurse) held an interactive talk as part of the Migration Matters Festival 2024. The event was held at the Soft Ground, Sheffield on 19th June 2024 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm.
Carers on the Move featured an interactive talk between the public, practitioners, and researchers including first-hand testimonies from the practitioners, Q&A, and a dip into history.
WEDNESDAY 1 MAY 2024
The Making it to the Registers project team at the University of Leeds including Dr Amrita Limbu, Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob, Dr Priyasha Saksena (Primary Investigator), along with Dr Amanda Spalding (University of Leeds), and Dr Adrienne Yong (the City Law School) have successfully secured the 2025 W G Hart Legal Workshop grant from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS).
Visit this School of Law news link for more details Centre for Law and Social Justice staff secure grant from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies | School of Law | University of Leeds
THURSDAY 11 APRIL 2024
On 26th March 2024, the Making it to the Registers project team Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, and Amrita Limbu presented a paper at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference 2024. This year’s conference was hosted by the University of Portsmouth in Portsmouth from 26-28 March 2024.
The presentation ‘Regulating the Movement of Care through Professional Registration’ was part of the stream ‘Managing and Protecting People on the Move’.