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.
