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People who come to the UK seeking asylum from wars and persecution may sometimes be perceived as having mental health problems. This article examines a project which attempted to address the wider determinants of mental health and well‐being in a non‐stigmatising, culturally appropriate manner.

Refugees are among the most socially excluded and marginalised groups in the UK. This paper examines ways in which the refugee service user's voice can be heard and the power imbalance between service provider and service user addressed. Lessons learned from addressing the needs of refugees can be extrapolated for other disadvantaged groups.

This article examines the changes in the eating patterns of newly arrived asylum seekers in a dispersal area, and how these changes reflect the massive social changes in their lives. Some of the reasons for these changes are examined, and suggestions made for possible interventions by health care professionals.

The lives of gifted young adolescents are often subject to adult‐generated and expert narratives that can impact a developing sense of self. However, opportunities for gifted young adolescents to represent themselves as informants can emerge through digital forms of qualitative research. This paper reports on the value of digital writing of journal entries, delivered by email to a researcher over several months, as an alternative to face‐to‐face interviews. Journaling methods combined with techniques of ‘listening for voices’ can support young adolescents in generating their own multi‐vocal narratives of self. This method capturing self‐narratives in email form has the potential to produce rich understandings of individual young adolescents’ self‐constructions.