Lecturer in Social Work, University of the West of Scotland
Dr Dina P. Sidhva is a Lecturer in Social Work at UWS; an Associate of the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. Originally, a social work academic from India, she obtained her PhD from UoE. Her research centres on issues affecting the socially excluded: in particular, people living with HIV/AIDS, forced migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, victims of domestic abuse, and persons from minority ethnic communities. Her book ‘Social Work in Global Context: Issues and Challenges’, draws on research in some of these areas. Her expertise lies in working with marginalised and disadvantaged people to express their ‘voice’ and agency. Her passion for giving a voice to those living on the margins of society led her to undertake challenging, innovative Photovoice research with asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland who also live with HIV. She has currently been researching (with the support of SFC-GCRF funding) some of the global challenges that affect low and middle-income countries (LMIC) the focal point being education, livelihood and gender-based violence among Syrian refugee women in Jordan. She co-convenes the new “Global Refugee Health Research Network” (GRHRN) set-up by UoE jointly with UWS. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Village Storytelling Centre in Glasgow that uses storytelling as a way of making sense of the world and finding voice too.
