Josephine Biglin

Dr. Josephine Biglin is a Lecturer in the School of Health & Society at the University of Salford, joining the institution in 2022 after completing her PhD at the University of Manchester, where she now holds an honorary research fellow position. Her academic work bridges community psychology, migration studies, and participatory research methodologies.

Her research focuses on three interconnected areas: creative participatory methods and political subjectivity among refugee populations; therapeutic landscapes examining the relationship between displacement, place, and wellbeing; and critical analysis of immigration discourses and survey methodologies. Dr. Biglin employs innovative multimodal approaches including photovoice, soundscapes, and sensory ethnography to explore refugee experiences of citizenship, belonging, and therapeutic spaces.

Dr. Biglin's recent publications (2020-2025) demonstrate a consistent focus on refugee experiences through creative methodologies, with particular attention to urban allotments as therapeutic environments, photovoice as political action, and critical examination of immigration survey questions. Her work shows increasing methodological sophistication and expansion into multimodal research outputs including digital artifacts.

• Active contributor to decolonizing educational practices
• EDI co-lead working to eradicate attainment gaps
• Coordinator of student volunteer programs for migrant communities
• Key contributor to University of Sanctuary application

Dr. Biglin maintains strong community connections through volunteering with third sector organizations supporting people seeking asylum and refugees, and writes for independent media to make academic knowledge accessible beyond traditional scholarly channels. Her teaching portfolio includes qualitative methods, social and community psychology, environmental psychology, media psychology, colonialism and psychiatry, and global issues in psychology.