Giorgia Donà

Given Name: 
Giorgia

Location

Refugee Research Centre
4-6 University Way University of East London Docklands Campus
E16 2RD London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 26.3088" N, 0° 3' 53.1216" E
Surname: 
Donà
English
Job Title: 
Reader
Discipline: 
Psychology
Institution(s): 
University of East London
Education: 

 

1994   MPhil Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

1993   PhD Basic and Applied (Cross-cultural) Psychology, Queen’s University,

 Kingston, Canada

1990   MA Basic and Applied (Social) Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston,

Canada

1990 Practitioner Summer School, Refugee Studies Programme, University of

            Oxford, United Kingdom

1987   BA (Magna Cum Laude) in Psychology

            Universitá degli Studi di Padova, Italia

1985/86 University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

 

 

Memberships: 

Membership

2010- present Psychology of Genocide Network

2008-present Centre for Narrative Research (member)

2007-present London Migration Research Group (member)

2009 Political Psychology

2007-2009 Co-Director of the Refugee Research Centre

2007-2008 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Social Justice Programme Research into

Young Undocumented Migrants, Oxford University and City University (advisory board member)

2007 Sociology

2004-2009 Refugee Research Centre (founding member)

2001-2009 Working group on refugee children of the International Association for

             the Study of Forced Migration (member)

2002-2009 Group for the Study of International Social Science (member)

2002-2008 School Research Committee representative of the field of

 Anthropology, International Development and International Politics (representative)

2002- 2008 School Sabbatical Sub-committee (member)

2005-2007International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, working group on procedures (member)

2002-2003 Ma in Refugee Studies (Acting Programme Leader)

2002-2003 Postgraduate Committee for the School of Social Science, Media and

 Cultural Studies (member)

1994-1996 Oxford course tutor for the Diploma in Forced Migration

1994-2009 International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (member)

 

 

 

 

Current Research Projects: 

Leverhulme Fellowship recipient: ‘Bystanders to the Rwandan Genocide: Revisiting Genocide Narratives and Reconciliation Initiatives’ (2008-2010)

 

Humanities and Social Sciences (UEL) Research Support for the project

The banality of evil and the ordinariness of good: Challenging dominant

 narratives of ethnic violence’  (2010)

 

Department of Health: A Users’ Evaluation of Health for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (Harpweb) portal (2009-2010)

 

 

Areas of Research Expertise: 
Phone (work): 
020 8 223 2770.
Languages: 
en
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