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Dr Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill imageSenior Research Fellow

BA Hons (Cant), PGDipIntHealth & PhD (Curtin)

Email ruqayya.sulaiman-hill@otago.ac.nz

Dr Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch.

She has a PhD in International Health from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia and degrees in Political Science and Religious Studies from New Zealand, as well as a professional background in Medical Laboratory Science.

Her current research focus is on the psychological impact of traumatic events, especially for refugee and migrant communities.

She is a co-Principal investigator on the HRC and CMRF funded March 15 Project, assessing the impacts of the March 15 terrorist attacks on the Christchurch Muslim community.  She is also helping to coordinate an international study to obtain data and to validate translations of a newly-developed Covid Psychosocial Impacts Scale in several Muslim majority countries.

Publications

Kabir, S. M. A., Ali, F., & Sulaiman-Hill, R. (2025). A comparative assessment of AI and manual transcription quality in health data: Insights from field observations. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1625), 35-43. Retrieved from https://www.nzmj.org.nz Journal - Research Article

Sulaiman-Hill, R., Ali, F., Kabir, S. M. A., & Porter, R. (2025). Interpreters in culturally responsive healthcare: Navigating dual roles and systemic gaps in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1625), 9-11. doi: 10.26635/6965.e1625 Journal - Research Other

Sulaiman-Hill, R., Ali, F., Lotfy Ahmed, R., & Kabir, S. M. A. (2025). Navigating dual roles: Qualitative exploration of the psychological impacts on Muslim professionals supporting their community after a terror attack. BJPsych Open, 11, e264. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2025.10897 Journal - Research Article

Beaglehole, B., Boden, J. M., Porter, R., Sulaiman-Hill, R., Ali, F., Dean, S., Adam, Z., Tanveer, S., Schluter, P. J., & Bell, C. (2025). Post-traumatic growth and religious coping in Muslims exposed to the March 15 terror attacks in New Zealand: A cross-sectional study. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/00048674251374461 Journal - Research Article

Kabir, S. M. A., Ali, F., Lotfy Ahmed, R., & Sulaiman-Hill, R. (2025). Exploring the use of AI in qualitative data analysis: Comparing manual processing with Avidnote for theme generation. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24, 1-9. doi: 10.1177/16094069251336810 Journal - Research Article

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