Salsawi Feleke Debela

Project Description

Salsawi's research explores how wellbeing is defined, measured, and interpreted within migrant, refugee and asylum seeker communities. It focuses on the limitations of standardised tools often designed in Western contexts that fail to capture culturally significant dimensions of wellbeing. Drawing on surveys with humanitarian migrants, interviews with Community Researchers and a systematic review of existing measurement tools, it measures wellbeing of humanitarian migrants, highlighting the need for culturally valid, migrant-specific approaches. This work informs the development of inclusive research methods, better data interpretation, and evidence-based policies that genuinely reflect the lived experiences of forcibly displaced and culturally diverse populations.

Supervisors

Professor Karen Block, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Professor Celia McMichael, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Associate Professor Ankur Singh, School of Dentistry, University of Sydney
Dr Lauren Carpenter, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health