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I am a mixed-methods postdoctoral researcher in social sciences with a background of applied research in mental health, psychology, and intellectual disability. I have a keen interest in participatory research that reflects voices of communities that traditionally have been silenced in research and society e.g. children and young people with intellectual disability. My research focuses on mental health, psychology, and education of marginalised populations such as children and adults with intellectual disability and/or mental health problems, child labourers, and exploited children.
I currently work as a Postdoctoral Researcher/ Project Manager (UK site) on ESRC funded the CREATE project at the Queen Mary University of London. The project aims to co-adapt and
formatively evaluate an arts-based programme to reduce emotional distress and build re-integration into society in rescued child labourers from India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
completed BSc in Psychology at City University of London, MSc with Distinction in Clinical Mental Health Sciences at University College London, and PhD in Social Sciences at University College London under supervision of Professor Carol Rivas and Professor Vaso Totsika. In my PhD project, I developed the first stakeholder consensus-based Core Outcome Set of Relationships and Sex Education for and with students with intellectual disability. This was a mixed-methods project that involved: a systematic review, workshops and interviews with adult stakeholders, interviews with students with intellectual disability using creative visual data collection methods, an online Delphi style consensus survey. The findings provide a significant first step to assist the implementation, delivery, evaluation, and sustainability of Relationships and Sex Education for students with intellectual disability.