Doing Collaborative Research II: Social Research in Uncertain Times
In our last post we spoke about our first project team meeting. Our second in-person meeting focused on designing the project’s data collection methods. Over the course of a full day, we explored a range of research approaches, including creative and participatory methods that have emerged in response to critiques of more traditional forms of…
Doing Collaborative Research I: What Counts as Knowledge and Lived Experience
We have finally started the fieldwork phase of our project. Getting to this stage, however, took more than two months of preparation. In April 2026, we began working as a research team made up of two academic researchers and six peer researchers with lived experience of the UK asylum system. We first met online to…
Have You Lived in Asylum Hotel Accommodation? We Want to Hear From You
The Peripheralisation of Asylum Accommodation Project (PAAP) is looking for asylum seekers and refugees living in the Birmingham & London areas who have experience of living in Home Office hotel accommodation. In recent years, thousands of people seeking asylum have been housed in hotels across the UK while waiting for a decision on their asylum…