Bee Damara

Thesis title:

Survivor Activists: Perspectives on the Relationship Between Human Trafficking and Colonialism in South Africa

Research Area

Diplomacy and International Relations
Political Science and International Studies

Publications

Damara, B., Gibbs, H., Robitz, R., Weaver, M., and Dang, M. (Forthcoming) “He Treats Me Like a Person”: A Scoping Review of Communicative Approaches to Healthcare for Trafficked People. The Lancet.

Damara, B., Jannesari, S., and Paphotis, S. (Forthcoming) Trust at Work: Lessons Learned from Co-Researchers Who Have Experienced Human Trafficking. International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

Jannesari, S., Damara, B., Witkin, R., Katona, C., Sit, Q., Dang, M., Joseph, J., Howarth, E., Triantafillou, O., Powell, C., Rafique, S., Sritharan, A., Wright, N., Oram, S., & Paphitis, S. A. (2024). The Modern Slavery Core Outcome Set: A Survivor-Driven Consensus on Priority Outcomes for Recovery, Wellbeing, and Reintegration. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(3), 2377-2389. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231211955

Conferences

Kindness in Research: Trauma-informed perspectives.

19th July 2022, 10.00-19:00, Strand Campus, King's College London.

Other Research Interests

Human Trafficking/labour exploitation health outcomes
Decolonial methodologies
Academics with Lived Experience

Memberships

Feminism, Global Ethics and Political Theory (FemGEPT)

Inspiring Ethics

The Reject Lounge

Midlands Migration and Citizenship Network

Podcasts

Damara, B. and Jannesari, S. (Hosts). (2022, December 07). Episode 1: Bee Damara on Theory (no. 1). In Anti-racist Qualitative Health Research. Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre.

Professional Record

In addition to my PhD research, I currently work as part of a team that is writing a commissioned series of papers for The Lancet journal on human trafficking and health. My role is to coordinate advisors, consultants and contributors on the series who have lived experience of human trafficking. I am also lead author on one of the papers and co-author on a further.

I began my career as a project worker, supporting young refugees and trafficking survivors. I then moved into research consultancy and peer researcher training. In recent years I have worked as a researcher on AHRC MSPEC funded projects, such as the Modern Slavery Core Outcome Set, Modern Slavery Community of Practice, and Survivor Wellbeing project.

Successful Funding Applications

AHRC Midlands4Cities Studentship
University of Leicester Masters Excellence Scholarship
Erasmus+ Youth Action 2018 Key Action 1 grant (£79k) - International Youth Exchange