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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
I am a Professor of Child Welfare. I am interested in the lives that young people make for themselves after seeking asylum. I try and help young people and their carers to make sense of how they came into contact with each other, and what to do for the best now that they are together.
I also like to work out how students can feel safe and successful when they are in University territory, and how they participate as citizens in that territory. So in those ways, my work is often about understanding journeys of safety, belonging and success.
I teach across most of the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the Department in relation to refugees and asylum seeking children and young people.
I supervise dissertations across all undergraduate and postgraduate courses of study and am really interested in students who take me to places of understanding that I would not get to on my own. Currently I am Director of Studies for the following PhD and Professional doctorate students:
I am delighted to note that the following students for whom I was the DoS or supervisor completed their doctoral work successfully in 2010/11
Since 2005, I have been an Associate Editor of the journal Child & Family Social Work and an Editorial Board member of the journal Children and Society since 2010.
Because I am a social worker by origin, I also enjoy reading the Social Work in Practice book series, where I am a member of the Editorial Board.
APCI consultation, UK Border Agency, Home Office. April 2008
The Advisory Panel on Country Information (APCI) was an independent body set up to ensure that the Home Office’s Country of Origin Information (COI) is as accurate, balanced and objective as possible. With Fiona Mitchell from Stirling University COI reports for the top 20 countries of asylum applications to the UK were reviewed, and we considered how children were, and could be represented within them. We advised that the UNCRC was a good framework for judging child asylum claims
Joint funding from the Big Lottery Fund to consider the lives of asylum seeking children and young people in foster care. This study has been carried out in association with the British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) and is lead by Jim Wade and Ala Sirriyeh at Children and Young People's Social Work Team within the Social Policy Research Unit at York University. The study will be published in 2012 as:
Wade, J, Sirriyeh, A, Kohli, RKS and Simmonds, J Fostering Unaccompanied Refugee and Asylum Seeking Young People in the UK. London: BAAF. A good practice guide, aimed at foster carers and social workers, will follow this
A 30 month evaluation of a Guardianship Service for unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people in Scotland, run by the Aberlour Trust and Scottish Refugee Council, funded by Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. This evaluation is being conducted in collaboration with Professor Heaven Crawley at Swansea University. The first annual report will be launched ion February 2012. Further information about the Service can be found here www.aberlour.org.uk/scottishguardianshipservice
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy are funding the evaluation of a scheme that will enable ways of getting trusted, independent advice and support to children and young people who have irregular immigration status.
I am working with the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) to evaluate the ways help reaches such young people via three key strands – via advice services in the UK, online support, and in reaching out to those leaving the UK
Luton campus
Park Square
Luton LU1 3JU
T: +44 (0)1582 743092
M: 07894937418
E: ravi.kohli@beds.ac.uk
