Collaboration with the British Alevi Federations and Schools

Dr. Celia Jenkins and Dr. Umit Cetin continue to collaborate with the British Alevi Federations and schools to introduce Alevism lessons into the religious education curriculum in schools. We are working with the community to address overall concerns about the well-being of second-generation Alevi youth, especially young men, a significant number of whom have been killed by suicide over the last 20 years or so. We plan to do some storytelling work with Alevi pupils in local schools to explore their settlement and integration in the UK.

Celia Jenkins and Umit Cetin’s Alevi research collaboration featured as one of the School of Social Sciences case studies for the Social Policy REF submissions in 2014 and 2021.