Sasha Eykyn

(she/her)

Overview

I am in the final year of my PhD research in the School of Geography and Planning, funded by the ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (2022). Working in partnership with community organisations and a local authority team, my research aims to better understand the social and institutional forces that shape how refugees experience homelessness and housing policy in Wales. 

I take an approach to housing and homelessness research and advocacy that aims to understand how systems are working through the experiences of people. This is underpinned by the importance of ongoing engagement and collaboration with people who have lived (and living) expertise. I use a range of qualitative and participatory methods across my work. 

Research interests:

• Homelessness and housing precarity
• Asylum and migration policy and practice
• Homelessness prevention
• Housing justice 
• Qualitative and participatory methods
• Institutional ethnography