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Project phases
Project aims
Making it to the Registers has five key aims:
Conduct an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of modern registration and fitness to practice in action.
Generate new interdisciplinary frameworks to understand the role of contingent ‘crisis’ (such as wars and pandemics) in shaping the rules relating to ordinary and emergency registration and fitness to practice and in creating a professionalised, competent, diverse healthcare workforce.
Amplify the voices of overseas-trained carers and those who support them.
Understand the current relationship between registration, fitness to practice and the inclusion/exclusion of overseas-trained carers, and the impact of this relationship on broader legal, social and cultural ways of acknowledging the contribution of overseas trained carers to healthcare in the UK.
Contribute to the literature on historical and ethnographic methods and broader analyses of professionalisation and state-making, by using registration and fitness to practice as illustrative objects of analysis, and using analogies from other regulatory contexts.
Project phases
Phase One: Archives
In this phase, we will examine published minutes of meetings and annual reports of statutory regulators as well as the following archival materials:
- Ministry of Health (The National Archives);
- Trade unions – BMA (BMA Archives, Wellcome Library) and Medical Practitioners’ Union, and professional associations (RCP and RCN);
- Scholars working on healthcare regulators (Margaret Stacey);
- Advocates helping to find work/placement for refugees – Esther Simpson, Yvonne Kapp (Trades Union Congress);
- Campaigning organisations (Socialist Medical Association) and organisations assisting refugees to find work (Society for the Protection of Science and Learning and British Federation of University Women);
- Jewish refugee medical professionals (Wiener Holocaust Library, RCP’s Voices of Medicine project, and Medical Sciences Video Archive, Oxford Brookes); and
- Refugee and immigrant physicians (RCP Archives) and nurses (RCN Archives).
Phase Two: Contemporary Experiences
In this phase, we will use the historical insights gained from the archival research in Phase One to frame interview questions for understanding the contemporary fitness to practice (FtP) landscape. In order to get a deeper understanding of how statutory regulators adapt registration and FtP requirements during ‘crisis’ situations, we will conduct interviews with:
- Regulators (NMC, HCPC, PSA), on setting registration requirements, principles behind and challenges posed by emergency registration, risk assessment when registers are expanded, rationales behind FtP procedures, and ways in which these proceedings have worked;
- Professional associations (BMA, RCN), on lobbying activities around shaping regulation of the professions;
- Activist (BAPIO, RefuAid, Refugee Council) and training (Reache) organisations, on activities in training migrant/refugee healthcare workers and assisting them in navigating the registration system, and lobbying for reforms of registration and FtP procedures; and
- Health education experts (HEE), on choices made to create initiatives that aim to widen the healthcare workforce.
The team will also focus on the contemporary experiences of migrant and refugee healthcare workers in navigating regulatory requirements. We will conduct 25-30 interviews with refugee health professionals who wish to share their experiences, as well as staff and managers at St James Leeds and St George’s University Hospital, London, focusing on perspectives on and experiences with registration requirements and FtP procedures.
These interviews will form the backbone of a digital archive of community stories. We will work with our partners to co-create an oral history archive of BAPIO as an institution and of the UK’s international healthcare workforce community more generally. By community, we do not mean local community, but a historical community of individuals from different national locations, with vocational professional training and who faced similar regulatory mechanisms in the UK.
We will also work with the Brotherton Gallery to digitise 20 meaningful objects (e.g. diplomas, name badges, uniforms) that signify registration or the anticipation of or hope for registration for the participants. The audio recordings and digitised objects will be available via open access platform YARN. The digital archive will be hosted by the University of Leeds for five years before being transferred to BAPIO.
Phase Three: Analogies and Upstream Regulations
This phase will focus on analysis of the interview data.
The team will also use the data as starting points to reach outside the realm of professional registration requirements and fitness to practice (FtP) procedures. Using comparative analysis (Riles 1994) and legal critique of governance (Gersen and Suk 2016, Halley, Kotiswaran, Rebouché and Shamir 2019), we will draw analogies with other mechanisms that do upstream evaluation of the conduct of future professionals. We will ask what sort of comparator or examplar they could offer to FtP.
To gain insight into perspectives on the upstream regulation of entry to the healthcare professions, we will do conceptual work and conduct interviews with:
- Members of Student Health and Conduct Committee, University of Leeds (handling FtP concerns);
- Representative of the Medical School Council; and
- Representative of HEE, including LETBs, about work including past work by deaneries.
Rukia Saleem | Research Assistant
Rukia Saleem | Research Assistant
University of Bedfordshire
Rukia is a multi-lingual research assistant with extensive experience of managing charities, research fieldwork and community engagement. Her research fieldwork is primarily on improving health and social care outcomes for marginalised and disadvantaged communities.
She is founder and project manager for A Creative Expression Ltd which is an organisation set up to advance in life and help children, young people and the community in Luton. She is a member of ‘Bury Park ‘ (Luton) Female Washing and Shrouding Group, A Tutor of Science of Tajweed (Quran recitation) and Team Member for PACT: Prison Advice and Care Trust.
Dr Priyasha Saksena | Co-Investigator
Dr Priyasha Saksena | Co-Investigator
University of Leeds
Priyasha Saksena a legal historian whose research focuses on the historical development of legal concepts and institutions within the British Empire. Priyasha is particularly interested in the relationship between international law and colonialism, and her doctoral dissertation was a history of the doctrine of sovereignty in colonial South Asia. She joined the School of Law in March 2019 and prior to that was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
Newsletter 3
Newsletter 3
Dear Reader,
Welcome to our December newsletter!
We are excited to share some updates from our project spanning May to December 2024: sharing archival research findings at conferences, to wrapping up the interview phases, as well as public engagement across Yorkshire and commissioning a graphic novel.
We are also now on BlueSky – follow us for latest updates!
Finally, we wish you a joyful holiday and a wonderful New Year 2025!
Warm regards,
Making it to the Registers team
Marie, Priyasha, Nasreen, Rukia, Britzer, and Amrita
Call For Papers W. G. Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care
We invite abstracts for the 2025 W G Hart Workshop focusing on the role of law in regulating the global movement of care. Given the historical and contemporary significance of the issue of the movement of carers, we welcome abstracts that explore the legal regulation of care (including comparative and international aspects) through the lens of a variety of disciplines: law, history, anthropology, politics, sociology, criminology, and creative arts. Further details on the workshop can be found here: Call for Papers, W G Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care.
Please email abstracts to [email protected] and [email protected] by 5pm on Monday, 6th January 2025.
Carers on the Move, interactive talk at the Migration Matters Festival
Making it to the Registers project team organised an event Carers on the Move as part of the Migration Matters Festival 2024 in Sheffield. 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. The project team Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, Nasreen Ali, Rukia Saleem, and Amrita Limbu were joined by 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).
The event was held at the Soft Ground, Sheffield on 19th June 2024 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm.
Marie’s radio interview with Bradford and Beyond
On 23rd October 2024, the project lead Marie-Andrée Jacob gave an interview to Bradford and Beyond on the Bradford Community Broadcasting radio to showcase Carers on the Move as part of the Bradford Intercultured Festival. https://www.intercultured.co.uk/events/carers-on-the-move-2024
Carers on the Move, interactive talk at the Migration Matters Festival
Making it to the Registers project team organised an event Carers on the Move as part of the Migration Matters Festival 2024 in Sheffield. 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. The project team Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, Nasreen Ali, Rukia Saleem, and Amrita Limbu were joined by 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).
The event was held at the Soft Ground, Sheffield on 19th June 2024 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm.
Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, and Amrita Limbu secure the Global Impact Acceleration Awards
The Making it to the Registers team 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 team collaborates with Petroglyph Studios, a Canadian comics creation studio, BAPIO (British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin), and ReSTORE to create a graphic novel and a poster to share findings from the project in accessible formats. 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.
Graphic novel Brainstorming
On 25th October, the Making it to the Registers project team participated in a brainstorming session at the University of Leeds to start developing a graphic novel to disseminate key insights from the research. The workshop was led by writer Hugh Goldring from Petroglyph studios. The brainstorming workshop brought together Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, Nasreen Ali, Rukia Saleem, Britzer Paul Vincent Paul Raj, and Amrita Limbu from the project team along with Indranil Chakravorty from BAPIO and Emma Matthews from ReSTORE, and research participants Nelson Enah, Alicia Vedio, Asemota Iziegbe and another participant wishing to remain anonymous. It allowed fruitful discussion on how emerging themes from the archival and interview research can be best disseminated through narrative and visual forms.
Marie-Andrée Jacob and Amrita Limbu awarded Strategic Development Fund
Marie-Andrée Jacob and Amrita Limbu were awarded £1880.45 from the University of Leeds, School of Law Strategic Development Fund for 2024/25 to host Professor Eram Alam, Assistant Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University, at the University of Leeds Centre for Law and Social Justice (LSJ) in June 2025.
Spotlight on Research: Making it to the Registers
Making it to the Registers project was nominated by the University’s Centre for Law and Social Justice Directors to feature in a Spotlight on Research video as part of the School of Law’s research promotion. We are pleased to share the video with you.
Please find link to the video on YouTube here.
Poster presentation at the AHRC-funded Research Showcase
On 6th 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.
Priyasha, Marie, and Amrita present at MMU Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law workshop
On 19th June 2024, 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.
Marie-Andrée Jacob and Priyasha Saksena present at the 26th British Legal History Conference
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’.
Amrita Limbu presents at the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference
On 3rd July 2024, 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’.
Amrita presents at the PSA Conference 2024 Witness to Harm
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‘.
Blog
Durnin-Duffy, Finola (2024) The Challenges of Active Recruitment Policies for the Moroccan Healthcare System. 2 September, https://makingregisters.leeds.ac.uk/the-challenges-of-active-recruitment-policies-for-the-moroccan-healthcare-system/
Project Team’s Corner
Following the Collaborative Targeted Outreach Programme (CTOP) events in January-February 2024, the University of Bedfordshire hosted the CTOP play & open day on 4th and 5th July 2024. Nasreen Ali, Professor of Public Health Equality and Programme Lead for The Talk Listen Change (TLC) Workforce Research Programme and Rukia Saleem, TLC Researcher, worked in collaboration with Komola Collective to use storytelling to illustrate research findings. Specifically, the focus was on the voices and lived experiences of young people, community and professionals from underrepresented groups on their views about the challenges and successes related to choosing health and social care courses and careers. The aim of the play is to contribute to developing an inclusive health and social care workforce by engaging with young people, parents, career switchers, under-represented groups and communities from diverse ethnic backgrounds to improve their knowledge, perceptions and status of nursing, midwifery, allied health professions and social work to increase their representation on courses and in the NHS workforce.
The event also provided the opportunity to network with University staff and employers to obtain information about routes into courses and careers in health and social care, have a tour of the university simulation suites and network over tea and biscuits before watching the play.
Amrita Limbu is one of the co-authors of the report Care, inequalities and wellbeing among transnational families in Europe. Report of the CareWell comparative, intergenerational study in Spain, France, Sweden and UK published in October 2024. The report is led by Ruth Evans, University of Reading and Rosa Mas Giralt, University of Leeds, UK. DOI: 10.48683/1926.00119301
Newsletter 2
Newsletter 2
Dear Reader,
In this second newsletter, we share some of our upcoming public engagement events, and updates from the project and the team.
We are also happy to share that we are now nearing completion of the qualitative research with overseas-trained healthcare professionals and thank everyone who shared their experiences with us, or helped to reach out to potential participants.
Best wishes from the Making it to the Registers team!
Marie, Priyasha, Nasreen, Rukia, and Amrita
Upcoming Public Engagements
2025 W G Hart Legal Workshop
Along with Dr Adrienne Yong (City Law School, University of London) and Dr Amanda Spalding (University of Leeds), the Making it to the Registers project team at the University of Leeds Dr Priyasha Saksena (Primary Investigator), Dr Amrita Limbu, and Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob have secured the 2025 W G Hart Legal Workshop grant from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). The workshop ‘Regulating the Global Movement of Care’ will be held at IALS in London in June 2025. See link for details.
Migration Matters Festival 2024
Our proposal for a talk at the Migration Matters Festival has been accepted. For the talk titled ‘Carers on the Move’ the project team Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, and Amrita Limbu (University of Leeds) and Nasreen Ali and Rukia Saleem (University of Bedfordshire) have teamed up with Dr Manou Sundararaj (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust), Nelson Enah (nurse), Emma Mathews (ReSTORE representative), and Dr Rajeev Gupta (BAPIO representative). The talk is scheduled for Thursday 20th June, 3 pm to 4:30 pm at the Soft Ground, 37 The Moor, Sheffield. See link for details Carers On The Move — Migration Matters (migrationmattersfestival.co.uk)
Migration Matters Festival, one of Britain’s largest festivals about sanctuary and refugees in the country returns to Sheffield every June. Our talk will be part of this vibrant festival that showcases powerful community celebrations with a strong emphasis on platforming refugees and people who have experienced displacement, detention, or the UK’s asylum system. See link for the festival events 2024 Line-Up — Migration Matters (migrationmattersfestival.co.uk)
The W. G. Hart Legal Workshop is a major annual legal research event organised and hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The workshop series, subsidised by funds from the W. G. Hart Bequest, focuses on a wide range of comparative and international legal issues and topical interests.
Intercultured Festival 2024
We are also pleased to announce success with our proposal for a talk at the Intercultured Festival 2024. Along with the project team, Marie, Nasreen, Priyasha, Rukia, and Amrita, the talk titled ‘Intercultured Conversations: Narratives on Migration and healthcare professionals in the UK’ will include the following panel members: Nelson Enah (nurse) and Sun Sander-Jackson (nurse and Inclusion lead, Sommerset NHS Foundation Trust, Chief Nursing Officers & Chief Midwifery Officer’s BAME SAG Lead – South West Region, and Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) Expert). The talk is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, 24th October at 1:30 pm.
Intercultured Festival celebrates the multilayers of cultures and communities, and Bradford as a creative home for all. This year, the festival focuses on three themes – our neighbourhood, protest through art, and creative wellbeing through the medium of music, dance, spoken word, visual art, writing, digital art, or cookery.
New agreement with stage@leeds
We have entered into a new agreement with Stage@Leeds, a youth theatre group to organise a series of public engagement events during autumn 2024.
Marie, Priyasha, and Amrita present at the SLSA Conference
On 26th March 2024, Marie-Andrée Jacob, Priyasha Saksena, and Amrita Limbu presented a paper ‘Regulating the Movement of Care through Professional Registration’ at the Socio-Legal Studies Annual Conference 2024 hosted by the University of Portsmouth in Portsmouth.
Blogs
Saksena, Priyasha (2024) The international regulation of healthcare workers? 15 March, makingregisters.leeds.ac.uk/the-international-regulation-of-healthcare-workers
Limbu, Amrita (2024) Uncertainty and insecurity of mobile lives: Migrant nurses in the UK NHS and the renewal and maintenance of professional registration in the home country, 11 April, makingregisters.leeds.ac.uk/uncertainty-and-insecurity-of-mobile-lives-migrant-nurses-in-the-uk-nhs-and-the-renewal-and-maintenance-of-professional-registration-in-the-home-country/
Jacob, Marie-Andrée (2024) Turning the tables on the language skills of overseas trained doctors? A prompt from the British Medical Journal, 01 May, makingregisters.leeds.ac.uk/turning-the-tables-on-the-language-skills-of-overseas-trained-doctors-a-prompt-from-the-british-medical-journal/
Project Team’s Corner
Professor Nasreen Ali and Rukia Saleem from the University of Bedfordshire led several outreach events throughout February 2024 to help contribute to the development of an inclusive health and social care workforce, as part of the Collaborative Targeted Outreach Programme (CTOP).
The Collaborative Targeted Outreach Programme aims to engage with young people, parents, career-switchers, and under-represented groups from diverse ethnic backgrounds to improve their knowledge and perceptions of nursing, midwifery, allied health professions and social work. These events were interactive, and attendees were able to find out about courses and careers in health and social care, had the opportunity to hear personal career stories and take part in debates, and much more.
Alongside these community sessions, Nasreen and Rukia also hosted two outreach events targeted at local schools, encouraging pupils to think about a career in health and social care. Pupils were able to visit the University’s simulation suite and experience events and procedures in a safe environment.
Congratulations to Dr Priyasha Saksena whose book ‘Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia‘ was shortlisted for this year’s Prize for Early Career Academics by the Socio-Legal Studies Association UK.
A 2-day hybrid roundtable and panel discussion was organised by the School of Law, University of Leeds as part of the official book launch for Dr Priyasha Saksena’s new monograph Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia.
The roundtable on 6th March 2024 brought together experts from several different fields and countries as discussants. At the follow-up panel the next day, discussants presented their research. The events were held at the Liberty Building, School of Law, University of Leeds. Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia | School of Law | University of Leeds
Dr Priyasha Saksena in conversation with Dr Alex Batesman in the podcast @NewBooksNetwork to discuss her book ‘Sovereignty, International Law & the Princely States of Colonial South Asia’. Listen to the podcast here Priyasha Saksena, “Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia” (Oxford UP, 2023) – New Books in Law | Podcast on Spotify
Amrita Limbu published a policy brief ‘Impact of COVID-19 on migrant families in the UK’ in March 2024, co-authored with Professor Ruth Evans, University of Reading and Dr Rosa Mas Giralt, University of Leeds, SAGES/GES Policy Brief March 2024 (reading.ac.uk)
Marie-Andrée Jacob (co-I) along with Anna Macdonald (PI, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London) were awarded £35,880 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the Research Networking Grant The Choreography of Consent: experiments in dance/law research. Partner organisations include People Dancing: Foundation for community dance; and Independent Dance. The Network will comprise of a series of workshop and an exhibition. It will start in October 2024 and last 18 months.
Newsletter 1
Newsletter 1
Dear Reader,
We are pleased to share our first newsletter with updates and progress from the Making it to the Registers project.
Making it to the Registers was conceived with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the impact of professional registration for internationally trained health professionals in the UK.
Since the project launched in March 2023, we have dedicated the initial months to archival research to understand the historical experiences of registration and to explore how regulators, historically and in the present day, adapted registration requirements for emergency conditions. Over the summer, the University of Leeds team visited the National Archives, British Medical Association Archives, Wellcome Library, The Women’s Library, India Office Records, Wiener Holocaust Library, and Hull History Centre.
We have also begun interviews with doctors, nurses, and midwives as part of the second phase of the project to understand the contemporary experiences of registration.
Wishing you a very Happy New Year 2024 from the Making it to the Registers Team.
Marie, Priyasha, Nasreen, and Amrita
Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob, Dr Priyasha Saksena and Professor Nasreen Ali host project launch event
On Tuesday 28th March, Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob, Dr Priyasha Saksena, and Professor Nasreen Ali launched the project Making it to the Registers: Documenting Migrant Carers’ Experiences of Registration and Fitness to Practise at an event at the Leeds Playhouse. The project is a collaboration between the University of Leeds and the University of Bedfordshire and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Along with Professor Jacob, Dr Saksena, and Professor Ali, speakers at the launch included Dr Ramesh Mehta and Dr Indranil Chakravorty – representatives of our project partner British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) and Tabita Tariq, a qualified nurse and asylum seeker. Tabita has since received her refugee status.
The project will run for two years. For details of the launch see link here.
Dr Amrita Limbu joins the team as postdoctoral fellow
In June 2023, Dr Amrita Limbu joined the project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Amrita’s research background centres on labour and migration and she is interested in analysis of migration, emotions, and transnational families.
Advisory Group Meeting
The project’s advisory group members came together for the first meeting held online on the 20th September 2023. The advisory group brings together individuals with research and professional expertise from the academic, health and third sectors.
The advisory group members include:
Dr Ramesh Mehta, British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
Tabita Tariq, qualified nurse with refugee status in the UK, outreach experience via Refugee Council
Timothy Procter, Brotherton Special Collections
Fiona McCulloch-Exley, Leeds Playhouse
Professor Gurch Randhawa, University of Bedfordshire
Professor Douglas Haynes, University of California Irvine
Professor Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick
Professor William Gould, University of Leeds
Dr Sunil Daga, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Professor Joan Loughrey, Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Trudie Roberts, University of Leeds
Professor Indranil Chakravorty, St. George’s Hospital London
Professor Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr Simon Popple, University of Leeds
Dr Sophiko Daraselia, University of Leeds
Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob and Dr Amrita Limbu present at the Professional Standards Authority Conference
On 14th November 2023, Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob and Dr Amrita Limbu presented at the Conference How can regulation research contribute to safer care for all? organised by the Professional Standards Authority and King’s Business School in London.
The presentation titled Differential registration and the professional healthcare workforce crisis: Overseas healthcare professionals in the UK drew on archival research and focused on admission of foreign healthcare professionals during the Second World War period and the immediate pre-and post-War period.
The conference was attended by different regulating bodies within the health sector, representatives from the NHS, and academics.
Publication
Jacob, Marie-Andrée and Saksena, Priyasha (2023) The Changing Natures of the Medical Register: Doctors, Precarity, and Crisis. Social & Legal Studies 32(5), 714-736. https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639231178878
Blogs
Jacob, Marie-Andrée (2023) Esther Simpson, pioneer and inspiration for Making it to the Registers, 7 August, https://makingregisters.leeds.ac.uk/blog-esther-simpson/
Saksena, Priyasha (2023) Austrian Doctors in the British Caribbean, 4 Sep, https://makingregisters.leeds.ac.uk/austrian-doctors-in-the-british-caribbean/
Jacob, Marie-Andrée, Saksena, Priyasha, and Limbu, Amrita (2023) Registration of Overseas-trained Healthcare Professionals in the UK. Sushruta Journal of Health Policy & Opinion 15(3), 21-22. https://doi.org/10.38192/15.3.12
Limbu, Amrita (2023) Gender, Migration, and Medical Registration in the UK, 5 December, https://makingregisters.leeds.ac.uk/gender-migration-and-medical-registration-in-the-uk/
Project Team’s Corner
Co-I Dr Priyasha Saksena published her new book Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia published by Oxford University Press, June 2023.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Amrita Limbu was awarded the Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship 2023. The Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship is an intensive development programme designed to support early career researchers advance their projects through innovative thinking, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and external partnerships.
PI Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob published an article ‘The Regulation of Apology In Healthcare: Learning from GMC V Dr Pandian 2023’ in Sushruta Journal of Health Policy & Opinion 15(3), 24-32 in October 2023. https://doi.org/10.38192/15.3.11
Dr Priyasha Saksena discussed her new book Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia at a book discussion event organised by the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context, Queen Mary University of London, 28 November 2023.
Co-I Professor Nasreen Ali will deliver outreach evening in January-February 2024. The Talk, Listen, Change (TLC) Workforce Research Programme aims to better understand how to get underrepresented groups into health and social care courses and careers. The programme of research and interventions prioritises voice and experience to enable the co-production of solutions.
One of the largest projects in the programme is the The Collaborative Targeted Outreach Programme (CTOP). The team have co-produced culturally relevant intervention, which uses an ethnographic approach to engaging with underrepresented groups from diverse backgrounds in the community setting to offer insights into the range of courses and career opportunities available in the fields of health and social care, and to break down stigma and misconceptions about health and social care roles. The goal is to empower underrepresented groups with the knowledge they need to aspire and make informed decisions about educational courses and professional careers. Professor Ali with her team will be delivering the outreach evening in Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes during January-February 2024.
Share your stories
If you are an overseas-trained or qualified nurse, midwife, or doctor and currently living in the UK, we would love to hear from you. Whether you have registered in the UK or are preparing to register in the future, or has had an interest in registration, we invite you to an hour interview to share your experiences of nursing, midwifery, or medical registration in the UK. Please get in touch at [email protected].