{"id":1504,"date":"2025-08-31T07:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T05:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/psych-aid\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:23:55","slug":"public-defence-of-doctoral-thesis-by-doctoral-researcher-hedayat-selim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/psych-aid\/public-defence-of-doctoral-thesis-by-doctoral-researcher-hedayat-selim\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Defence of Doctoral Thesis by Doctoral Researcher Hedayat Selim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Public Defence of Doctoral Thesis by Doctoral Researcher Hedayat Selim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Doctoral Researcher Hedayat Selim successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Psychological aspects in the evaluation of asylum claims based on sexual orientation” on Friday, 22 August 2025. Professor Jan Antfolk, \u00c5bo Akademi University, and the Principal Investigator of Psych-AID, served as the custos, while Associate Professor\u00a0Hilary Evans Cameron, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, served as the opponent. The thesis was supervised by Professors Jan Antfolk, Julia Korkman, and Elina Pirjatanniemi, and reviewed by Professors Evans Cameron and Professor Annelies Vredeveldt (VU University Amsterdam).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Opening of defence by Professor Antfolk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Defence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The event started with Prof. Antfolk welcoming and introducing the audience. After that, Hedayat delivered her lectio praecursoria, in which she laid out the motivations behind her research project, the materials and methods used within the thesis, and provided a summary of the main results. This was followed by the formal examination by Prof. Evans Cameron, who focused her questions on the scope of the work, the limitations of the methods, and the impact of the work. Finally, after two hours of questions, Professor Evans Cameron declared that the doctoral thesis should be accepted and that Hedayat should be conferred with the Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology title.<\/p>\n\n\n