In addition to the above, my ongoing and planned future research is anchored in developing and validating more mental health and trauma tools as demonstrated in Nos 1-4 above. My years of psychological research in my focus areas have shown that many psychological instruments do not consider African cultural factors and as a result may lead to wrong diagnoses in clinical practice and negative research outcomes hence the need to understand how African populations process trauma journeys (Paper 1 accepted) and assess reliability scales such as the PTSD scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) (Paper 2), the Conner-Davison Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10 and CD-RISC-25) (Paper 3) and the development and validation of the BeLiv Microaggression Scale. (Paper 4) and all targeting tier 1 journals such as Plus One, SAJP, etc with colleagues in Europe and North America.

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Reviewers interested in other ongoing projects could find information about them on https://esidemudia.com  

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Briefly, I have existing ongoing projects such as:

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(1) the International Student project (ASToIS-SAG). The project is currently assessing Acculturation strategies, acculturative stress, and mental health of International Students in South African and German Universities: Investigating the Buffering Roles of Social Support and Psychological Capital with Dr Constance Karing and Prof Andrea Beelman at FSU, Germany.

 

(2).  The NRF funded SAG-CORE (COBABOY-Germany-South Africa) Panel study titled “Post COVID-19: Barrier or Boost for a Sustainable Improvement in Wellbeing and Identity Development of Youth {COBABOY}”. The Co-PI members are myself and Prof Klaus Boehnke (Germany). The proposed study addresses COVID effects on the values of young people, their social orientations, and their psycho-social well-being in a comparative, longitudinal mixed-methods study in South Africa and Germany. The study's main objective is to assess value orientations and psychological factors and details on the social situation of the respondents. This is a panel study between South Africa and Germany.

 

(3) The BeLiv project (www.beliv-study.com)  sponsored by AvH Foundation, Germany to develop a microaggression scale (see Paper 4 above under review).

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(4) the UCLA USA Trauma I and II Projects (Phodiso/SACERT Projects) on “Internally Displaced Men and Women in Nigeria, Botswana, (PhD student Ms Botho), Zimbabwe (PhD student Ms Janet) to compare PTSD/PTSS and trauma across countries and demographics of African populations.

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(5) Finally, the on-going research project funded by the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation III Project titled “Sources of Psychosocial Capitals as Pathways to Positive Acculturation and Well-being of black immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands” anchored in a mixed-method study is about the Posttraumatic Growth study among African immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands (Prof Idemudia and Prof Boehnke). This study is a sequel to our 2020 book titled “Psychosocial Experiences of African migrants in Six European Countries: A Mixed Method Study” published by Springer Europe. (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030483463). The study is about what makes some African immigrants to Europe acculturate and integrate well into the general society despite everyday stressful acculturative experiences and racism (https://beliv.limequery.com/877344?lang=en) (see online questionnaire). The study is ongoing and falls directly under Focus Areas 1 and 3.

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This open-access book with 11 chapters and published by Springer Europe emanated from the 2015 prestigious Georg-Foster Life-Time Achievement award in Research I received from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany titled “Understanding the Psychology of African Immigrants in 6 European Countries”. The study was premised on the influx of African youths into the EU using unsafe means resulting in thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean and the Sahara deserts, thinking Europe and the Western world are beds of roses. A total of 3500 questionnaires and 22 FGDs/in-depth interviews were collected between 2016 and 2019 across six EU countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and the UK. The open access fee of € 8,000 was funded by AvH, Germany.

 

The main contribution made in the book is novelty, the first of its kind globally, proposition of new theories, and an empirical account of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants in Europe, discusses the psychosocial motivations for migrations from Africa, who migrates where and stressful pre-and post-migration factors affecting the social and psychological wellbeing of migrants including a detailed exploration of PTSD and PTSS and addressing and offering solutions to migration problems in Africa and Europe. The book is core to my research foci 1 and 3. Despite being recently published, this book has already garnered a fair amount of 34 citations reported in GoogleScholar on 15th January 2024 and there is evidence that it influenced policies related to migration in the European context. According to the Altmetric report (https://link.altmetric.com/details/86861666/policy-documents), the book has been referenced in 11 World policy documents to date in Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili: e.g. World Migration Report (WMR) 2022: Chapter 3 (Portuguese), cited by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) report on 16 March 2023.

https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2022-chapter-3-portuguese,  

https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2022-russian, and

https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2022-chapter-3-swahili  plus IOM in their book “Etat de la migration dans le monde 2022”: https://publications.iom.int/books/rapport-etat-de-la-migration-dans-le-monde-2022, etc.

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The prevalence of displacement of people due to climate change, wars, and migrants' living conditions will continue globally. I plan to continue to contribute to the research on this important topic in the next review period and beyond.