Sacha Hasan

· Refugee and asylum seeker (RAS) communities, and black and minority ethnic (BAME) communities’ engagement in civic forums and societal practices with focus on the relation between social inclusion and mental health and wellbeing.

· Immigration laws and social justice in Scotland to promote health and wellbeing, with focus on vulnerable, and protected groups.

· Planning governance and institutional development, with focus on urban development decision-making process in terms of who and how these decisions are made within a specific political, economic, and social context.

· International development policies and their impact on the processes of urban development in the countries of the Global South, with focus on community empowerment.

· Informal networks of urban development and community structures in rapidly urbanised contexts in the Global South.