Credibility Assessment

Psych-AID attends the (Re-)Constructing Credibility in Refugee Status Determination Workshop

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025

Doctoral researchers Malin Ekelund and Obed Appiah, together with Psych-AID principal investigator Jan Antfolk, participated in the (Re-)Constructing Credibility in Refugee Status Determination Workshop at the University of Copenhagen. The workshop aimed to foster discussion on research related to credibility assessment in the asylum context and to clarify what researchers mean when they refer to credibility.

Psych-AID Presentation at Åbo Akademi Lunch Seminars in Minority Studies

November 12, 2025

Doctoral Researcher Malin Ekelund delivered an insightful talk titled “Adjudicating Asylum Claims of Sexual or Gender Minority Applicants” at the Lunch Seminars in Minority Studies. In this, she presented research that the Psych-AID group has been conducting and the findings from her recent experiment.

Religion as a Ground for International Protection

October 31, 2024August 28, 2025

Doctoral Researcher Hedayat Selim presented her findings at the recent Religion as a Ground for International Protection Conference in Rome.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

October 1, 2024August 28, 2025

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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