WORKSHOP 6
THE ‘ADVERSITY GRID’ FRAMEWORK IN APPLIED QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Papadopoulos will first provide a general outline of the ‘Adversity Grid’, which is a framework for grasping the range of consequences when one is exposed to any severe form of adversity. In addition to the negative effects, it also enables the identification of retained strengths (resilience) as well as new strengths that have been activated by the very exposure too adversity (Adversity-Activated Development).
Sabchev will present his research in the experiences of refugees on the Greek islands, using the ‘Adversity Grid’ framework, and Gionakis will present the application of the ‘Adversity Grid’ framework in clinical research.
WORKSHOP FACILITATORS
Professor Renos K Papadopoulos
Professor and Founder Director of the Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees and of the MA /PhD Programmes in Refugee Care at the University of Essex, a member of the ‘Human Rights Centre’, of the ‘Transitional Justice Network’ and of the ‘Armed Conflict and Crisis Hub’ all at the University of Essex, as well as Honorary Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic. He is a practitioner, trainer and supervisor Clinical Psychologist, Jungian Psychoanalyst and Systemic Family Psychotherapist. As a consultant to the United Nations and other organisations, he has been working with refugees, tortured persons, trafficked people and other survivors of political violence and disasters in many countries. He lectures and offers specialist trainings internationally, and his writings have appeared in 18 languages.
Dr Tihomir Sabchev
Dr Tihomir Sabchev is a postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg Law School (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) and Visiting Fellow at the Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen, Germany). He has extensive experience in conducting interdisciplinary research on the governance of refugee admission, reception, and integration in different countries (Greece, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands) and at different levels (EU, national, and sub-national, with focus on local authorities). Currently, he is carrying out a four-year research project (2023-2027) that brings together insights from migration studies, public policy, victimology and psychology to explore the impact of reception and asylum policies on the psychological wellbeing of asylum seekers and refugees in Greece. His studies have been published in Territory, Politics, Governance, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, and the Journal of Migration and Health.
Nikos Gionakis
Co-Founder, Babel Day Centre
Nikos Gionakis graduated from the University of Padua in Applied Psychology and then obtained his MSc degree in Social and Child Physiatry at the University of Ioannina. In 2007 he co-founded, the Babel Day Centre in Athens, the only specialist state-funded mental health unit for migrants and refugees in Greece. He is a member of the Centre for Trauma,Asylum and Refugees.
