Professor Amina Memon visits the Psych-AID Network in Finland
Professor Amina Memon visited the Psych-AID Network in Finland. It was a thought-provoking week of discussions and networking.
Activities
Activities that the Psych-AID research team members are involved in.
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Psych-AID presentation at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Conference
Members of the Psych-AID network were at the 2025 biennial conference of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), held in Ireland. The team members presented their individual works at the symposium titled “Interviewing and Decision-Making in the Asylum Context.”
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Presentation of Research at the Paloma Research Network by Dr. Jenny Skrifvars and Hedayat Selim
Dr. Jenny Skrifvars and Hedayat Selim presented their research studies on the psychology of asylum interviewing and decision-making at the May seminar of the PALOMA research network, hosted at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).
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Psych-AID Presents at the Nordic Asylum Law and Data Lab workshop
Doctoral researchers represented the Psych-AID research network in the 2025 Nordic Asylum Law and Data Lab workshop at the University of Copenhagen. The event was organized by the Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and brought together researchers working on asylum issues.
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Presentation of a Training Program in Legal Psychology for Finnish Asylum Officials
Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Jenny Skrifvars (Ph.D.) presented her results on a training program she developed for Finnish asylum officials at the Invest Flagship Centre’s Brownbag session.
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Training with Finnish Immigration Service
Postdoctoral researcher Jenny Skrifvars, Prof. Julia Korkman, and Prof. Jan Antfolk designed a training package on interviews for asylum officials.
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Public Defence of Doctoral Thesis by Doctoral Researcher Jenny Skrifvars
Doctoral Researcher Jenny Skrifvars successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Investigating and Improving the Quality of Asylum Interviewing and Decision-Making Practices in Finland” on Saturday, 26 October 2024. Professor of Practice Julia Korkman served as the custos, while Professor Pär-Anders Granhag served as the opponent
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Religion as a Ground for International Protection
Doctoral Researcher Hedayat Selim presented her findings at the recent Religion as a Ground for International Protection Conference in Rome.
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Prof. Jan Antfolk and Hedayat Selim from the Psych-AID research group attended the Believe It or Not conference in Amsterdam. They discussed their research on the credibility assessments in SOGIESC asylum cases.
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Psych-AID Attends European Association of Psychology and Law Conference 2024
Members of the Psych-AID group presented their research at the just-ended EAPL 2024 conference in Portugal.
