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Humera Iqbal
@humeraiqbal.bsky.social
Social & Cultural Psychologist at UCL. I study families & young people in relation to migration, citizenship & statelessness, climate change, mental health & arts.

Website: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=HIQBA39
Join us for an exciting panel event - Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing
📅 Tuesday 11th November, 4.30–6.30pm
📍 Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, 30 Guilford Street, UCL GOSICH
Book your spot now:
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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How can art and storytelling help us make sense of migration, displacement & belonging?
Join panellists @ismaileinashe.bsky.social, Manal Massalha, Christie Swallow & Jessie Sullivan on 11 Nov, 4.30pm, for Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing.
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#Migration #Art #Wellbeing
Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing
An interdisciplinary panel event with voices from journalism, arts, and research exploring migration, resistance and wellbeing.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Delighted to announce the launch of my new
@wellcometrust.bsky.social project: The Mental Health Costs of Statelessness (MH-COST). In partnership with Imkaan Welfare Organisation, I'll explore how lack of documentation & exclusion affects the mental health of adolescents & young adults in Pakistan.
September 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Our new article is out now in #CitizenshipStudies - 'Suspended identity: statelessness, citizenship challenges and the impermanence of identity status faced by Pakistani Bengalis.'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Suspended identity: statelessness, citizenship challenges and the impermanence of identity status faced by Pakistani Bengalis
Approximately 3 million ethnic Bengalis reside in Pakistan, some of whom have been refused citizenship rights and continue to face social and cultural exclusion despite being in their third and fou...
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July 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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New job vacancy at TCRU! For a Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Psychology - 2.5 year post (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...).

Please share widely! @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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✨ It’s here! The Arts-Based Research Methods with Underserved Communities toolkit—co-created by @ucl.ac.uk & Wits University
🎨 16 global case studies
📚 Practical, inclusive methods
👥 Centering co-creation
🔗 discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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June 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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🎉 Announcing a new #ArtsBasedResearch toolkit!
Co-created by researchers @ucl.ac.uk & Wits University, it explores how creativity & the arts empower underserved communities.
A practical guide for researchers & practitioners.
📅 Coming 26 Jun.
@humeraiqbal.bsky.social @uclpophealthsci.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Bhashaili, the Bangla word for Adrift, is a film exploring the everyday stories of Pakistani Bengalis living in Karachi, including their loves, losses, and the challenges they face.

Based on @ukri.org research from the Partition of Identity Project 🔗 poistudy.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzL...
Bhashaili (Adrift) | 2025 - Official Trailer - Feature Documentary Pakistan
Bhashaili tells the stories of Pakistani Bengalis living in Karachi as they find love and heartbreak, dare to dream, and strive for their identity in Pakista...
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June 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Delighted that the trailer for our film Bhashaili (Adrift) is finally out 🎬. The film is based on research from the @ukri.org Partition of Identity Project (poistudy.com) @sriucl.bsky.social
Co-produced by @humeraiqbal.bsky.social (@tcru-ucl.bsky.social) with Syeda Kashmala & Anushay Malik.
June 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Happy to share that our Islamabad screenings as part of the #BHASHAILI_Pakistan_Tour were a great success 🎉
We had a brilliant turnout at both The Black Hole and Alliance Française, Islamabad, with really thought provoking discussions following the screenings 🎬💬
#PartitionOfIdentity #AdriftFilm
May 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The Lahore leg of our #BHASHAILI_Pakistan_Tour went great!
Bhashaili—the Bangla word for Adrift—is a film exploring the everyday stories of Pakistani Bengalis living in Karachi, including their loves, losses, and the challenges they face.
Thank you, Lahore! 💛
@sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Dear Friends, 📽
We invite you to join us for one of the scheduled screenings of:
BHASHAILI (ADRIFT)
Bhashaili, the Bangla word for Adrift explores the everyday stories of Pakistani Bengalis living in Karachi, including their loves, losses and the challenges they face. @ioe.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Five years on since the WHO declared the COVID-19 pandemic - what has changed and what has remained the same? fact-covid.wixsite.com/study/post/f...
Five years on....
This week marks five years since the WHO declared the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic. In commemoration of this moment, research teams from our study look back at what has changed and what has remained th...
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March 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This week we spotlight the role of #art in #research at SRI

Dr @humeraiqbal.bsky.social worked with artists, filmmakers and the community to explore the story of the Pakistani Bengali community living in Karachi. Learn more in this film:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leep...
ADHOORI SHANAKHT - ادھوری شناخت - Incomplete Identity: Growing up Pakistani Bengali
YouTube video by Humera Iqbal
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February 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hi Bluesky friends👋, it's great to be here! I'm a social & cultural psychologist based @sriucl.bsky.social. I focus on on both migration and minority groups, & creative health with young people and families. My work is interdisciplinary and I use mixed-methods, film 🎬and arts-based research 🎨
February 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM