About Jo’s research

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My general research interests are:

  • Engaged approaches to understanding organisational cultures in the voluntary, not-for-profit and public sectors
  • Migration-related issues, such as mental health, and alternatives to immigration detention
  • Reflexivity, emotions and ethics in research
  • Ethnography and its potential for advocacy, social impact and policy change
  • How researchers are embodied and emplaced in the field

My current research is an action research project to address the issue of maritime civilian search and rescue vessels being detained (by EU authorities) and to strengthen their position and legitimacy to operate in the Central Mediterranean.

For a brief biography, please go here.

Publications

Vincett, J. (2019) ‘Supporting migrants and asylum seekers in and beyond immigration detention in the UK‘, in Wroe, L., Larkin, R. and Maglajlic, R.A. (eds) Social Work with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants: Theory and Skills for Practice, London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Vincett, J., Wright, A. and Lucas, M. (2018) ‘Compassion in volunteer work: An ethnography of a befriending organisation’, Proceedings from the 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Vincett, J. (2018) ‘I befriend women detained at Yarl’s Wood: Their life in immigration limbo is excruciating‘, The Conversation, 12 March.

Vincett, J. (2018) ‘(Re)entering the World of Immigration Detention in Britain‘, Border Criminologies Blog, 8 January, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law.

Vincett, J. (2018) ‘Researcher self-care in organizational ethnography: Lessons from overcoming compassion fatigue‘, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 44-58.

Vincett, J. (2018) ‘Three days is still too long to hold pregnant women in immigration detention‘, The Conversation, 25 July.

Vincett, J. (2017) ‘Befriending kinships in immigration detention in the UK‘, Discover Society, 2 May.