Dr Zibiah Loakthar

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies , University of Essex, University of Essex

Zibiah Alfred Loakthar is a Senior Lecturer in Refugee Care, and Inclusivity Lead and Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. She is Deputy Co-Director of the Centre for Trauma Asylum and Refugees (CTAR). She has over twenty years of practical experience working in social justice, equality, human rights, community development, education, health and heritage sectors with minoritised groups, grassroots refugee communities and mainstream charities. Zibiah sits on the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Migration within the Oral History Society and volunteers on the boards of two registered charities and the British Schools Museum. Within the university. Zibiah is a member of the university's Human Rights Centre and the Centre for Global South Studies and is an affiliate of the Centre for Migration Studies. Her interdisciplinary publications span fields of education, heritage, oral history and Refugee Care.