Dr Roghieh Dehghan

Doctor | Researcher | Activist

I’m a GP in London with a special interest in the health of marginalised populations. My research, beginning with palliative care in Bangladesh, now centers on the mental health of traumatised refugees.

Currentlty, I work as a Wellcome Clinical Research Fellow at UCL, researching the moral and ethical implications of torture and its impact on the mental health of Iranian refugees in the UK.

Creative Public Engagement Activity

This creative public engagement project aimed to transform perceptions of mental health and refugee status within the Iranian diaspora, with the goal of enhancing the wellbeing of trauma-affected refugees.
I collaborated with a team of artists, alongside Iranian communities and charities invested in refugee mental health, to host a series of creative workshops titled “Building Bridges” at UCL.
Six workshops were held, welcoming 18 Iranian immigrants living in the UK. Facilitated by multimedia artists Maryam Hashemi and Lola Awada, the sessions engaged participants in artistic exercises that encouraged reflection on their journeys, solidarity, and hopes for the future. After the workshops, Majid Adin created an animated video, while writer Nasrin Parvaz curated and edited participant reflections captured in workshop notebooks, transforming them into stories. These stories were recorded by voice actors and presented through vintage telephones at the exhibition, adding an intimate touch. The project was also supported by Public Engagement consultant Dr Sohail Jannessari.

The exhibition took place at Gallery@Oxo on London’s South Bank in March 2024, timed to coincide with the Iranian New Year – Nowruz.

You can explore the virtual exhibition here.

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Fiction

“Men, Countries and Gods: The Diary of an Iranian Woman,” co-authored and published under the pseudonym “Homa Zaklaki”

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