The Cultural Competency Unit is generating knowledge and ways to transform local and international communities, conducting research in cultural competency education and cultural competency in practice.

The research projects we conduct are highly interdisciplinary and collaborative. Not only do we interrogate the status quo of cultural competency as a subject matter, but we also engage in developing new methodologies for researching cultural competency. 

We welcome researchers to get in touch with us to explore collaboration. We also welcome potential PhD candidates to contact us and discuss opportunities to do a PhD under any of these topics.

Research projects

Cultural Competency in Healthcare BEME review

Principal investigators: Dr Shuangyu Li.

A systematic literature review on cultural competency in medicine and healthcare education.

Project status: Ongoing

On Apprehension

Principal investigators: Timothy Huzar.

Cultural competency research - exploring philosophical issues around how we come to know who another person is, as opposed to what they are.

Project status: Ongoing

Visualising Africa at Diaspora Expense?

Principal investigators: Edward Ademolu.

How and why humanitarian organisations ignore diaspora audiences in their 'ethical' communications.

Project status: Ongoing