Hi! 👋 I am Yeasir
I completed my Bachelor’s (Honours) and first Master’s degree in Population Sciences from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Later, I pursued a second Master’s with Commonwealth Scholarship in Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery, Migration, and Organised Crime at the St Mary’s University, London. Currently, I am conducting PhD research in Forensic Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, England, funded by a faculty bursary of the university.
In addition to my academic work, I am passionate about storytelling. I write fictional stories and narrate them on YouTube and various podcast platforms. I’m also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, focusing on the refugees crisis.
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Let me introduce my research and creative journey.
ONGOING PHD AND OTHER RESEARCH
My PhD research title is “Memory, Reporting, and Culture: Improving interviewing practice in asylum contexts” under the supervision of Lorraine Hope, Jonathan Koppel, and Tanja van Veldhuizen. My research aims to investigate the influence of cultural factors, and autobiographical memory on asylum seekers’ interviews for refuge-seeking. I wish to improve the current interview techniques in asylum seeking context through this research.
Prior to my PhD, I was engaged in research addressing social and public health issues for refugees and migrant populations. I have co-authored multiple research works, including empirical studies, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and comments published in high-impact factor journals such as The Lancet Global Health and The Lancet Regional Health. I also served as a scientific reviewer for several journals.
