How can photography help refugee men talk about mental health?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 humanities, social science and arts.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Nancy Clark, a social justice researcher at the University of Victoria, Canada. She is working with Syrian refugee men to explore their experiences of employment and mental health in Canada through the power of photography.

• This resource also contains interviews with researchers and Syrian refugees in the team. If your students have questions for the team, they can send them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Nancy and the team will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Nancy’s research and challenges them to conduct their own photovoice activity using photography to explore social justice issues.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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