Meet the Team

Nifemi is a Research Assistant and PHD student in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. They hold a MA in Social Research from the University of Leeds, where they wrote an award-winning dissertation exploring the lived experiences of Black women navigating British higher education, more specifically looking at the effectiveness of diversity initiatives in addressing racialised and gendered inequalities and neoliberal notions of meritocracy. They also hold a MA Honours degree in Psychology from the University of Aberdeen.

 

Within CARE HSC, Nifemi’s co-produced PhD project will utilise decolonial and participatory research methodologies to explore Black carers’ embodied, sensory and lived experiences within mental health and care systems shaped systemic racism, institutional harm and epistemic injustice. The project aims to reimagine alternative and more just frameworks of care.

 

Nifemi has held a range of research roles in health and social care, children’s social care, housing and justice with a strong focus on lived experience, systemic change and anti-racist practice. They are particularly interested in challenging Eurocentric, hegemonic ways of knowing embedded within the public sector, and in using creative research practices to surface other ways of knowing and being, including embodied, emotional, and collective knowledge. Their work draws on methods such as photovoice, oral history, film making and community archiving and is grounded in commitment to equity, racial and social justice and liberation.