Demographics and Health Circumstances of Ukrainian Displaced People Youtube. 2023
Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris, Dr Michael Head and Dr Ken Brackstone held a workshop “War in Ukraine: Armed violence, forced displacement and mental wellbeing.” at the University of Southampton. The results of a rapid-needs health survey were disseminated.

'Hope is finished, we're dying out'-what people in Ukraine said about Russian conflict The Print. 2022
Research by Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris, Professor Theodore Gerber and Dr Yuliya Hilevych on life in the Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

'The hope is finished': life in the Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk The Conversation. 2022
Research by Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris, Professor Theodore Gerber and Dr Yuliya Hilevych on life in the Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

'The hope is finished': life in the Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk Western Morning News. 2022
Research by Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris, Professor Theodore Gerber and Dr Yuliya Hilevych on life in the Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

CPC Webinar: 'Low subjective well-being of Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine' | Brienna Perelli-Harris Youtube. 2021
Although Internally Displaced Persons outnumber refugees globally, few studies have examined their well-being and assimilation into the local population. Here we investigate Ukraine, which hosts the largest IDP population in Europe. In 2014, war erupted in eastern Ukraine, resulting in around 1.7 million people forced to resettle throughout Ukraine. Despite being ethnically and culturally similar to the local population, IDPs encountered severe economic, housing, and social challenges, as well as residual trauma from violence. In this study we examine to what extent the subjective well-being (SWB) of IDPs differs from locals who were not displaced. We explore whether the IDP/local SWB gap is due to economic hardship, inadequate housing, and/or weak social support. Using a unique survey conducted in 2018 and OLS regression methods, we find a sizable gap in SWB between IDPs and locals. The gap shrinks after accounting for economic and housing status, and support from local networks. Measures of loss in housing and social networks additionally account for the gap. However, none of the factors can account for the difference between locals and IDPs who reported only leaving due to violence, pointing to the enduring impact of trauma on SWB.