Hyab Yohannes

03/04/2024

It is a great honour to have been awarded the RSE medal, which recognises outstanding contributions to research and practice. This recognition is not only a reflection of my own efforts, but also of the countless people I have had the privilege of collaborating with, the lives that have been impacted, and the enduring wounds and scars that persist. I am truly grateful to Alison Phipps and Fergus McNeill for their unwavering support, as well as to Tesfalem Habte, Zeraslasie Shiker, Samson Maekele, and many others for friendship and stimulating intellectual conversations.

The RSE announces eight recipients of its esteemed medals, which recognise outstanding contribution and achievement across all academic disciplines.

16/12/2022

“If we are incapable of recognising a human face in the faces of the refugees or a human place in the places of the refugees, then how can we claim to have humanity in our own faces and hospitality in our own places? There is a radical denial of humanity and hospitality in the UK asylum system, and this denial amounts to a refusal of the subjectivity of the refugee”. ~ see my blog👇🏾

News The “giving-receiving” paradox in “integration” Dr Hyab Yohannes Academic Coordinator (School of Education), University of Glasgow A shortened version of…Young Academy of Scotland15th December 2022

05/09/2022

This petition is to express our serious concerns regarding the treatment by Sudanese security forces of Eritrean refugees in Sudan. We call on the UNHCR, the Government of Sudan and the international community to immediately stop the arbitrary detention, ransom extortion and torture of Eritrean refugees in Sudan.

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Stop the detention and exploitation of Eritrean refugees in Sudan

20/06/2022

“We must shift our efforts and imagination away from the omnipresent violence and reclaim our humanity and subjectivity from the necropolitics of coloniality. Reclaiming our humanity and subjectivity requires of us understanding that receiving the Other is an inescapable ethical relationality.” ~ my reflection on World Refugee Day

In this short blog for World Refugee Day (20 June), Dr Hyab Yohannes writes that we must be prepared for unconditional hospitality and non-exclusive humanity.

02/05/2022

https://fb.watch/cM0La_zAWm/

21/04/2022

Hyab Yohannes & Tsega Zerehannes Wedding, Glasgow, UK

My story, my experience, my vision

10/04/2022

https://youtu.be/RSgL2ApjYzw

18/03/2022

Our wedding: Shikki - https://youtu.be/Sw2BbTztA2o

In Blin wedding tradition, Shikki refers to the time when the groom and his friends go to a local wetland to perform a post-wedding rite and the ladies visit the bride with especially cooked foods.

18/03/2022

Hyab & Tsega wedding: part 1

31/01/2022

The RSE Young Academy of Scotland is recruiting new members! I’ve been a member since 2020 and have enjoyed working with interesting and talented people on great public benefit projects! For more information and to apply to join us, visit

Applications are now open! The deadline is 5pm, 21 February 2021. Our members are early to mid-career professionals who have demonstrated outstanding talent and ambition in their work along with a passion for working with others beyond their workplace.

19/01/2022

"What carries the truth that liberates our inquisitive minds and forms the PhDs, such as mine, is the primaeval pain and the pale sadness of these wounded bodies, the disremembered stories and the unmarked graves. If a PhD is a formal recognition of one’s contribution to knowledge, no one is more knowledgeable of the realities of becoming and the conditions of being refugees than the refugees themselves."👇

As of today, I am a doctor, but what about the real bearers of knowledge – the research participants? December 3, 2021 Hyab Yohannes No comments Uncategorized FacebookTwitter By Hyab T. Yohannes Today is my graduation day. It is a happy feeling to have completed the three-year PhD work, especially...