DrMahuya Kanjilal

Dr Mahuya Kanjilal is Postgraduate Research Tutor of School of Health and Society a at the University of Wolverhampton. At her current role, she is leading departmental doctoral programme, actively engaged in research projects, supervises doctoral students, member of ethics subject panel and facilitating monthly research seminar series. Mahuya primarily is a social researcher specialising in community participatory research with minority ethnic communities in the UK. Her main focus is engaging diverse communities in academic research and including service users’ voice.

She has delivered research projects for local authorities, clinical commissioning groups, social service providers for the past 10 years. Mahuya often uses digital platform in order to share the research reports in accessible format such as videos and documentary films for those hard to reach communities.

Her participatory research project ‘My Life My Memories’ for Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning group received Dementia award in 20217. Mahuya has presented her research in several national and international conferences including III International Conference for medical Humanities as a keynote speaker in 2017. In 2021, she presented at the UN 65th Commission on the Status of Women as part of research team from University of Wolverhampton.